Chapter Summaries 4-8 of To Kill a Mockingbird

Chapter 4 Summary
School continues; the year goes by. Scout doubts that the new educational system is really doing her any good - she finds school boring and wishes the teacher would allow her to read and write, rather than ask the children to do silly activities geared toward "Group Dynamics" and "Good Citizenship."
One afternoon as she runs past the Radley house she notices something in the knot-hole of one of the oak trees in the Radleys' front yard. It turns out to be two pieces of chewing gum. Scout is careful but she eventually decides to chew them. Jem makes her spit it out. Later, toward the end of the school year, they find in the same place a little box with two polished Indian-head pennies inside - these are good luck tokens. They aren't sure whether these have been left for them, but decide to take them anyway.
Dill comes to Maycomb for the summer again, full of stories about train rides and his father, whom he claims to have finally laid eyes upon. The three try to st...