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Monkey Town
''Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial'' is a 2006 novel written by American author Ronald Kidd.〔http://www.ronaldkidd.com/life.html〕 The story is set in summer 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee, and is based on the Scopes Trial. ==Plot summary== Frances Robinson, a fifteen-year-old daydreamer, lives in Dayton, a small town in Tennessee. When the summer starts, she wants only to play tennis and drink Coke. However, things bounce out of normal range when her father, the school board chairman, arrests local teacher (and Frances' friend and love interest) John Scopes for teaching Charles Darwin's evolution theory in class, in an effort to attract publicity to the town. Scopes is put on trial. Frances takes Scopes' side and defies her father, even though the case is not completely genuine.〔http://www.parenthetical.net/2008/04/29/monkey-town-by-ronald-kidd/〕〔http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/284112.Monkey_Town〕 Notable names such as politician William Jennings Bryan (prosecutor of Scopes), lawyer Clarence Darrow (defender of Scopes), and journalist H. L. Mencken arrive in Dayton, along with a horde of reporters, and drama stirs.
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