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How old is Scout Finch during To Kill a Mockingbird?

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Book cover for To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, featuring a silhouette of a child under a tree and a large moon, with the title in script and — To Kill a Mockingbird This book cover is one of many given to Harper Lee's classic work To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). The novel won a Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and the next year was made into an Academy Award-winning film.

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the narrator, Jean Louise ("Scout") Finch, ages from six to nine years old during the course of the story.12