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The school year passes slowly for Scout. Her grade is released a half hour earlier than Jem's, so Scout has to pass Boo Radley's house by herself every afternoon. One day, Scout notices something shiny in a tree at the edge of the Radley yard. When she goes back to investigate, she finds a stick of gum and shinny pennies. Scout continues to check the knothole daily. On the last day of school, she and Jem find some coins in the tree, which they decide to keep until the next school year starts. Dill arrives two days later to spend the summer. After an argument with Scout, Jem suggests they play a new game called "Boo Radley," which Scout recognizes as Jem's attempt to prove himself. Against Scout's better judgement, they enact Boo's life until Atticus learns of the game and so the kids stop playing it.

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Jem and Scout were still in shock about the fact that Atticus was feeble, he was nearly fifty. The children believe that Atticus's  age keeps him from doing the sorts of things other children's fathers do.

As Tom Robinson's trial gets closer, Jem and Scout endure more slurs against their father. When their neighbor Mrs. Dubose, a mean elderly woman confined to a wheelchair, makes a rude remark. Jem is sentenced to read to Mrs. Dubose after school for one month. Scout chooses to accompany Jem. Shortly after Jem done with reading to Mrs. Dubose, she dies. Only then does Atticus tell the children that Mrs. Dubose was very sick and fighting an addiction battle.

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For the first time in decades, Maycomb gets snow. School is closed, so Jem and Scout spend their day building a snowman. That night, Miss Maudie's house burns to the ground. Jem and Scout are sent to wait in front of the Radleys' while the fire is still raging. Boo Radley walks up and puts a blanket around a shivering Scout's shoulders. The next day, Scout is surprised to find Miss Maudie in a good mood, working in her yard and talking about expanding her garden. Near Christmas time, a classmate taunts Scout with the news that Atticus is defending a black man. Uncle Jack Finch comes for Christmas as he does every year; Scout and her family spend Christmas at Finch's Landing with Aunt Alexandra and her family. Alexandra's grandson, Francis, begins teasing Scout about Atticus defending a black man.

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On Dill's last night in Maycomb, he and Jem decide to look in the window to see if they could get a look at Boo Radley. Scout discourages them from going to the Radley house, but decides to join them. Someone inside the Radley house comes out and fires a shotgun into the darkness. The children run out of the yard, but Jem gets caught on the fence and is forced to remove his pants to get to saftey as the neighborhood gathers to the gunfire, Dill concocts an unlikely explanation for Jem's lack of pants. Atticus tells Jem to get his pants from Dill and come home. At home, Jem confides in Scout that he's going back to the Radleys' to get his pants.

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Dill goes to Mississippi for the school year and Scout starts the first grade something she's been waiting for all her life. However, Scout's first day at school is not at all the greatest experience she had been expecting from the winters she spent looking over at the schoolyard, spying on children through a telescope.

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Scout the narrator, remembers the summer that Jem broke his arm, and she looks back over the years to recall the incidents that led to that event. Scout provides a brief introduction to the town of Maycomb, Alabama and its inhabitants, including her widowed father Atticus Finch, attorney and state legislator; Calpurnia, their black cook and housekeeper