Mockingbird

Caitlin Misses Her Brother Every Day. Since His Death In A School Shooting, She Has No One To Explain The World To Her. And For Caitlin, The World Is A Confusing Place. She Hates It When Colours Get Mixed Up, Prefers Everything To Be Black-and-white, And Needs To Check Her Facial Expressions Chart To Understand Emotions. So When Caitlin Reads The Definition Of “closure”, She Decides That’s What She Needs. And As She Struggles To Find It, A World Of Colour Begins To Enter Her Black-and-white Life... Caitlin misses her brother Devon. Since his death, she has no one to explain the world to her. And for Caitlin, the world is a confusing place, full of emotions and colours that she can't understand. Dad tries to help, but he spends a lot of time crying in the shower. So when Caitlin reads the definition of "closure" in the dictionary, she decides thats what they need. And as she struggles to find it, she learns how to let a world of colour into her black-and-white life 11-year-old Caitlin has Asperger's syndrome, and has always had her older brother, Devon, to explain the confusing things around her. But when Devon is killed in a tragic school shooting, Caitlin has to try and make sense of the world without him. Red Porter knows the difference between right and wrong, black and white. But he also knows that in his hometown, Stony Gap, this isn't always clear. A powerful, thought-provoking story of family, friendship and race set in the deep South