What happens in Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine?
The book centers around the girl whose brother was killed in a school shooting . Her older brother Devon has just been killed, along with a teacher and another student, in a school shooting. Due to Caitlin’s condition, she finds it difficult to cope with her feelings about what has happened.
What is the climax of Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine?
The Climax is where Caitlin finally figures out how to feel empathy for people and being able to put herself in someones shoes. After finishing Devon’s chest with her dad, Caitlin sits there and just looks at it and starts crying.
Who wrote Mockingbird book?
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird/Authors
Harper Lee, whose first novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” about racial injustice in a small Alabama town, sold more than 40 million copies, died at the age of 89. Harper Lee, the famously reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird, spent most of her life out of the spotlight.
What is Mockingbird syndrome?
She has Asperger’s syndrome – which, as the author reminds us in a prefacing note, is “characterised by awkwardness in social interaction, pedantry in speech and preoccupation with very narrow interests”. Caitlin fulfils this definition very neatly.
What genre is Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine?
Novel
Young adult fiction
Mockingbird/Genres
Who is the publisher of Mockingbird?
It was published by HarperCollins in July of 2015 and became the fastest-selling book in the company’s history. The New York Times called it “perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades.”
Who published Mockingbird Kathryn Erskine?
Philomel Books
“First published in the United States of America by Philomel Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, 2010”–Title page verso. Discussion guide (6 unnumbered pages) and excerpt from: The absolute value of Mike (6 pages) included after text.