Also known as Harper
By: Ann Haywood Leal.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780805088816
Subjects: Single-parent families -- Fiction; Family problems -- Fiction; Brothers and sisters -- Fiction; Poets -- Fiction; Selective mutism -- Fiction; People with disabilities -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Harper Lee Morgan is an aspiring poet, which isn’t surprising, seeing as how she’s named after her mama’s favorite writer, Harper Lee. And life is giving her a lot to write about just now. Daddy up and walked out, leaving them broke. Then Harper’s family gets evicted.
With Mama scrambling to find work, Harper has to skip school to care for her little brother, Hemingway. Their lives have been turned upside down, which Harper could just about handle—if it wasn’t for the writing contest at school. If only she could get up on that stage and read her poems out loud . . .