Mockingbird

MockingbirdBy: Kathryn Erskine In Caitlins world, everything is black or white. Things are good or bad. Anything in between is confusing. Thats the stuff Caitlins older brother, Devon, has always explained. But now Devons dead and Dad is no help at all. Caitlin wants to get over it, but as an eleven year old girl with Aspergers, she doesnt know how. When she reads the definition of closure, she realizes that is what she needs. In her search for it, Caitlin

with high-contrast illustrations and sturdy holes to peep-through

When her late husband's relatives prevail on her to take in a young man for the week before an unexpected family wedding

but there’s no way I’m going to let them ruin my summer

Tales of things that "go bump in the night" are part of the folklore of the wilderness

she witnessed her grandmother’s violent death

her husband’s nineteen-year-old cousin

but her efforts at a new beginning aren’t helped by an anonymous local blog that dishes about the scandalous events that caused her marriage to fail

Everything changes

birth and death

“[Cilla Lee-Jenkins] is 50% Chinese

Eve and Michael

he was popular and outgoing while she was rebellious and headstrong