Mockingbird was.................
- touching
- powerful
[long pause...................]
- worth reading!
I have mentioned before that sometimes we "know" that things are difficult for people with disabilities, however "feeling" how different they truly are is a gift to the reader. This book opened my eyes to autism. I applaud the author for creating a book with such power geared to our teenager readers. Bravo!
Summary:
In a nutshell: A girl on the autism spectrum reaches out past her own family's tragedy to help others as she helps herself.
In Caitlin’s world, everything is black or white. Things are good or bad. Anything in between is confusing. That’s the stuff Caitlin’s older brother, Devon, has always explained. But now Devon’s dead, and her father cries a lot. Caitlin wants to get over it, but as an eleven-year-old girl with Asperger’s, she doesn’t know how. When she reads the definition of “closure” in the dictionary, she realizes that is what she and her father need. In her search for Closure, Caitlin discovers that not everything is black and white--the world is full of colors--messy and beautiful, and it is through this discovery that she embarks on a road which leads her to find both healing and closure.
Mockingbird won the 2010 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
Author's website: http://kathrynerskine.com/
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