Title: Mockingbird
Description: 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 Dad is no help at all. 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, she realizes that is what she needs. In her search for it, Caitlin discovers that not everything is black and white—the world is full of colors—messy and beautiful.Kathryn Erskine has written a must-read gem, one of the most moving novels of the year.
Subjects: Fiction, Asperger's syndrome, Family life, Death, School shootings, Schools, Empathy, Juvenile Fiction, Young adult fiction, Families, Brothers, Juvenile fiction, Girls, Empathy in children, Family relationships, Children and death, Reading Level-Grade 5, Reading Level-Grade 4, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 6, Reading Level-Grade 8, Children's fiction, Family life, fiction, Virginia, fiction, Schools, fiction, Death, fiction, Autism, fiction, School stories, NEW LIST 20100430, Fathers and daughters
Places: Virginia