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Mockingbird has received the 2010 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Mockingbird is the story of Caitlin, a girl for whom everything is black or white. Things are good or bad, at least that’s what older brother Devon has always told her. 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. Then she hears the word closure, looks it up in the dictionary, and sets out in search of it.
Author Kathryn Erskine was a lawyer for fifteen years before turning to her first love: writing. Her debut novel, Quaking, was one of YALSA's 2008 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. Kathy Erskine's second novel, Mockingbird, sprang from the intersection of two life-changing events--a daughter diagnosed with Asperger's, and the April 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech near Erskine's home in Charlottesville, Va.
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