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November 12, 2011 Title: //Mockingbird// Author: Kathryn Erskine Host: TBA



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 c o l o r s --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** (National Book Award, 2010)

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 * Kathryn Erskine's 2010 National Book Awards Young People's Literature Acceptance Speech**