Is there a part in the book where Scout prefers to play with boys rather than girls, or anything that is close to that?

Throughout the book we see several examples of this, actually. Let's look at a few:

• Scout and Jem are very close. She is very much a tomboy because she has grown up in a home with a single father and one older brother. Much of her playtime is spent with Jem and their games are more masculine than feminine.


• Scout's closest friend (outside of the family) her age is Dill, a boy. She looks forward to every summer when he will come to visit. They spend all of their time playing together—until the trial that is.


• Scout does not have any friends who are girls, nor do we see her associating with them at school except on a superficial basis. She does not go to their parties nor play with them at school.


• Scout shows no interest in anything some girls would like—tea parties, dresses, dress up,  dolls, and so on. The games she plays all involve (much to Aunt Alexandra's dismay) her playing in a shirt and pants, and often no shoes. These clothes allow her to play rougher than girls are expected to play, and to get messy—again, not something girls were supposed to be doing.


• She seems comfortable around males and, at times, confused by females.

I was more at home in my father's world... [where men] did not trap you with innocent questions to make fun of you. Ladies seemed to live in faint horror of men, seemed unwilling to approve wholeheartedly of them. But I liked them... there was something about them that I instinctively liked... they weren't-- "Hypocrites..." (Chapter 24)