By Isaiah Cordova

88-year-old Harper Lee, the author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” is publishing a new book 55 years after the book following the Finch family from Maycomb, Alabama during the times of the Great Depression. Lee’s new book, which was actually finished in the mid 1950’s, is titled “Go Set a Watchman.” The book will follow Scout as an adult.

English Teacher Deirdre Jones said, after receiving news about the book, “It’s like an old friend just came back to life. It’s like a lazarus moment.”

Merri Kirby, another English teacher, said “I hope the book is so good that Jones will want to teach it as a sequel, and we get to teach “To Kill a Mockingbird” at Freshman level.”

The unpublished novel was rediscovered by Lee’s lawyers. The same characters from “To Kill a Mockingbird” will be present, while “Go Set a Watchman” will take place about 20 years after the original 1930’s setting of the original book.

Lee said that the book would be published July 14.