Being called a girl is the worst thing possible—or so thinks Scout, the female protagonist of To Kill a Mockingbird<span>. Girls wear frilly pink dresses and don't get to play outside, swear, or pretty much do anything fun. </span>And<span> they have to grow up to be ladies, which means being plunged into a confusing world where no one says what they mean. Scout's in for a big lesson, though: thanks to the examples of radical chicks Aunt Alexandra and Miss Maudie, she learns that being a lady can take as just as much courage as being a wild </span>tomboy<span>. Even if you have to wear a dress while doing it.</span>