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Mockingbird Paperback – February 3, 2011

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Caitlin has Asperger's. The world according to her is black and white; anything in between is confusing. Before, when things got confusing, Caitlin went to her older brother, Devon, for help. But Devon was killed in a school shooting, and Caitlin's dad is so distraught that he is just not helpful. Caitlin wants everything to go back to the way things were, but she doesn't know how to do that. Then she comes across the word closure--and she realizes this is what she needs. And in her search for it, Caitlin discovers that the world may not be so black and white after all.

"Powerful."--Publishers Weekly

"A strong and complex character study."--The Horn Book

"Allusions to Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, the portrayal of a whole community's healing process, and the sharp insights into Caitlyn's behavior enhance this fine addition to the recent group of books with narrators with autism and Asbergers."--Booklist
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    630L
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    5 x 0.69 x 7.5 inches
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    Puffin Books
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    February 3, 2011
  9. ISBN-10
    9780142417751
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"A valuable book." -School Library Journal

"A strong and complex character study." -The Horn Book

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Kathryn Erskine spent many years as a lawyer before realizing that she’d rather write things that people might actually enjoy reading. She grew up mostly overseas and attended eight different schools, her favorite being the Hogwarts-type castle in Scotland. The faculty, of course, did not consist of wizards, although . . . how did the headmistress know that it was “the wee redhead” who led the campaign to free the mice from the biology lab? Erskine draws on her childhood—and her second childhood through her children—for her stories. She still loves to travel but nowadays most trips tend to be local, such as basketball and tennis courts, occasional emergency room visits, and the natural food store for very healthy organic chocolate with “life saving” flavonoids.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0142417750
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Puffin Books; Reprint edition (February 3, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780142417751
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0142417751
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 10 - 12 years, from customers
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 630L
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 5 - 6
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.69 x 7.5 inches
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I grew up in Europe, Africa, Canada, and the United States, and take my inspiration from personal experiences and the world around me. I love to travel and visit schools and write pictures books and middle grade, young adult, and adult novels.

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Amanda
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Teaching Resource
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2018
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Mockingbird by Kathryn Erksine arrived new and in good condition. I initially read it when a student brought her copy to me to read this fall. We were reading To Kill a Mockingbird in class and once we began TKAM, she recognized the allusions that once did not make sense to her when she read Mockingbird the year prior. The book offers a unique and refreshing perspective, and although one Amazon reviewer commented that it was "depressing and lame" and she felt the book wasn't complex enough, I have to disagree. The lower Lexile makes this accessible and enjoyable to a variety of readers, and being able to discuss perspective, human behavior, school shootings, and Asperger's requires deep thinking that is necessary for young readers. I purchased this copy to keep in our classroom library and paired excerpts of Mockingbird with TKAM to discuss the allusions, symbolism of the mockingbird, and the previously listed topics.
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5.0 out of 5 stars rings true as the voice of an aspie girl
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2015
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As a female aspie myself, I found Caitlin's voice to be perfect. There are some negative comments here about how her voice is "inauthentic," particularly the incongruous inconsistencies in her intelligence. She can research a sophisticated report on how the heart works but she doesn't know what a "fun raiser" is? To me, this was one of the most authentic parts of the book, speaking as a child who elicited exactly the same reaction from adults as Caitlyn does to the negative reviewers here -- it doesn't make sense that you are so smart and so dumb. You must be pretending when you act like you don't understand something, after all, your vocabulary tests at six years above grade level...

And Caitlyn's obsessive attachment to "closure" (another thing some reviewers say doesn't ring true) is typical of the aspie predilection for perseveration. Caitlyn is =searching= for much of the book for something she can perseverate on. So many things that make her ring true as an aspie to me are exactly the things that make the character seem inauthentic to some reviewers.

Which brings me to the subject of empathy, and Caitlyn's manifest lack of it. This "lack of empathy" goes both ways. Aspies have a hard time empathizing with neurotypicals because neurotypicals are so baffling, but neurotypicals find aspies just as baffling and neurotypicals have as much difficulty empathizing with aspies as vice versa -- Exhibit A, the reviewers who find Caitlyn's voice not to ring true precisely because of her aspie characteristics. Im my experience, aspies easily empathize with other aspies (as I certainly did with Caitlin!)

And one comment about the famous literalness of aspies. Sometimes I hear it implied that the reason that aspies take things literally is because they do not understand metaphor or have no imagination. Neither of those is true. What it is is that, if you take something as a metaphor, chances are that your interpretation will be completely different from what the neurotypical person intended. So literal interpretation of everyone's words is a way to be safe, it's like staying on a safe patch of solid ground surrounded by a swamp filled with quicksand -- once you leave the safe ground of default literalism, chances are good that you will find yourself stepping into a quicksand of misunderstanding, and struggling to straighten out the misunderstanding will only make you sink so deeply you get swallowed up. See, aspies can understand and use metaphors perfectly well.

And one reviewer thought that using the metaphor "dip her toe into" was out of character for an aspie, because aspies don't use metaphor. Or aren't supposed to. To me, it was perfect -- it symbolized that Caitlin was starting to feel safe enough in the social world that her mind could start to move out of the safety of literalness.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely, Emotional Book.
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2016
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This is a really great book. I purchased it for myself to read and if I felt it was appropriate for my 11 year old daughter who has Aspergers. I cried and laughed throughout the book. I saw so much of my girl in it and it made me both sad and happy. It was nice to see a story told from the perspective of someone who thinks differently than myself and it made me feel more connected with my daughter. My daughter saw me reading it and asked what it was about. I told her a brief synopsis but didn't tell her about the Aspergers part. She had been recently diagnosed and we had discussed it with her but she really wasn't comprehending it all. I was curious to see how she would react to the book. She read the book and kept coming to me amazed that this girl thinks like I do, or this girl does this and that's how I do it, etc. She kept seeing herself in the character of the book. She laughed and cried as well but I think for different reasons then I did. After she read the book she asked me about Aspergers again and we talked about it again. She really enjoyed the main character of the book and the story. A very good read.
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M.A. De Neve
4.0 out of 5 stars ASPERGERS, GRADE SCHOOL, A PLACE TO START UNDERSTANDING
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2016
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In the aftermath of a school shooting, Caitlyn, a fifth grader with autism, tries to come to terms with closure. The way it is presented in the book “Closure”: is a word from the dictionary. Caitlyn doesn’t know if closure is a person, place or a thing. She tries to find it.
My issue with the book was that Caitlyn did not grieve for her brother, one of the victims of the shooting. There was no bargaining, anger or depression. She accepted his death with robotic reactions. Even when she weeps uncontrollably toward the end of the novel, the author is defining “empathy” not describing a little girl missing her brother.
I liked that this author cared about and attempted to teach about bullying and autism. But in a few places this novel fell short of that goal.
Caitlyn did not always understand when she was being snubbed. A girl tells tells she wants to be left alone. Caitlyn feels the girl means she wants to left alone by everyone and tells people to stay away.
While we Aspies may not always understand metaphor, we quickly learn when other kids don’t like us. We know when we are not welcome.
Yet this was a good attempt inside the mind and actions of a child with Asperger Syndrome, and to help readers understand that we are all different, but we all need love and understanding and friends.
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Jewels
5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING book
Reviewed in Canada on February 21, 2022
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HELEN
4.0 out of 5 stars Hermosa historia, libro llegó sucio
Reviewed in Mexico on June 13, 2020
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La historia es hermosa y creo que es una lectura obligada de adolescentes y maestros para lograr un poco de empatía en estos tiempos de tanta indiferencia. Lo único malo es que el libro llegó sucio, manchado de la cubierta y con dedos pintados por la parte de abajo. 😔
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3.0 out of 5 stars Nice
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ばむせ
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good to understand a child who has ASD
Reviewed in Japan on June 12, 2021
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I am Japanese. But it is easy to read.
And I have a daughter who has ASD.
I can understand her struggles after reading this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great empathy
Reviewed in Australia on January 14, 2018
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It is so important for us to understand more about nuero diverse people and how the world can be shaped by them. This book does a great job of showing loss and life from the point of view ean autistic child. I just wish she wasn't forced to suppress her stims and make eye contact even though it is so painful
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