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Mockingbird
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Mockingbird Paperback - 2011

by Erskine, Kathryn

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In Caitlin's world, everything is black or white. Anything in between is confusing. That's how Caitlin's older brother, Devon, always explained it. But now Devon's dead. Caitlin wants to get over it, but as an 11-year-old girl with Asperger's, she doesn't know how.

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Puffin Books, 2011-02-03. Paperback. Good. 5x0x7.
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Details

  • Title Mockingbird
  • Author Erskine, Kathryn
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Puffin Books
  • Date 2011-02-03
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0142417750-3-20816122
  • ISBN 9780142417751 / 0142417750
  • Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 0.7 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 1.78 cm)
  • Ages 10 to UP years
  • Grade levels 5 - UP
  • Reading level 630
  • Themes
    • Topical: Death/Dying
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Death, Virginia
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

Caitlin has Asperger's. The world according to her is black and white; anything in between is confusing. Before, when things got confusing, Caitlin went to her older brother, Devon, for help. But Devon has died, and Caitlin's dad is so distraught that he is just not helpful. Caitlin wants everything to go back to the way things were, but she doesn't know how to do that. Then she comes across the word closure- and she realizes this is what she needs. And in her search for it, Caitlin discovers that the world may not be black and white after all.

From the publisher

Kathryn Erskine spent many years as a lawyer before realizing that she’d rather write things that people might actually enjoy reading. She grew up mostly overseas and attended eight different schools, her favorite being the Hogwarts-type castle in Scotland. The faculty, of course, did not consist of wizards, although . . . how did the headmistress know that it was “the wee redhead” who led the campaign to free the mice from the biology lab? Erskine draws on her childhood—and her second childhood through her children—for her stories. She still loves to travel but nowadays most trips tend to be local, such as basketball and tennis courts, occasional emergency room visits, and the natural food store for very healthy organic chocolate with “life saving” flavonoids.

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"A valuable book." -School Library Journal

"A strong and complex character study." -The Horn Book

About the author

Kathryn Erskine spent many years as a lawyer before realizing that she'd rather write things that people might actually enjoy reading. She grew up mostly overseas and attended eight different schools, her favorite being the Hogwarts-type castle in Scotland. The faculty, of course, did not consist of wizards, although . . . how did the headmistress know that it was "the wee redhead" who led the campaign to free the mice from the biology lab? Erskine draws on her childhood--and her second childhood through her children--for her stories. She still loves to travel but nowadays most trips tend to be local, such as basketball and tennis courts, occasional emergency room visits, and the natural food store for very healthy organic chocolate with "life saving" flavonoids.