Mockingbird

Erskine, Kathryn

A heart-warming story of loss and recovery that won the American National Book Award 2010 – one of the most moving books you’ll ever read.

Since Caitlin’s brother died, she has no one to explain the world to her. It’s a confusing place, full of emotions and colours she can’t understand. So when Caitlin reads the definitionof “closure” in the dictionary, she decides that’s what she needs. And as she struggles to find it, she lets a world of colour into her black-and-white life.

A bittersweet story about hurt and healing, told in the unforgettable voice of a young girls with Asperger’s syndrome.

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