Devon was the one who helped Caitlin function more normally, explained why people acted and reacted the way they did, and generally was just a terrific older brother to her (the kind you’d desperately hope you had if you had a child with special needs). mockingbird by kathryn erskineĬaitlin is ten years old and has Asperger’s syndrome, so she reacts differently to the death of her brother, Devon, then other people might. The author, Kathryn Erskine, lives in Virginia and in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings, she wrote this book about a girl dealing with the death of her brother (although he was shot in a middle school, rather than at a college). And yet this book is impressively upbeat, without seeming forced. Look, if you want to talk about a book that has a downer of a premise, it’s this one. I was far more impressed with this book than I expected to be. 9 of 10: Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine, about a girl with Asperger’s syndrome whose brother was recently killed in a school shooting, manages to be meaningful, appropriate, and even (surprisingly) funny.
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