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. how did the headmistress know that it was the wee redhead who led the campaign to free the mice from the biology lab?Įrskine draws on her childhood and her second childhood through her children for her stories. Ages 8-12.' - Kirkus Reviews 'Starred Review. The faculty, of course, did not consist of wizards, although. Erskine draws directly and indirectly on To Kill a Mockingbird and riffs on its central theme. She grew up mostly overseas and attended eight different schools, her favorite being the Hogwarts-type castle in Scotland. 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 savi Kathryn Erskine spent many years as a lawyer before realizing that she'd rather write things that people might actually enjoy reading. 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. The faculty, of course, did not consist of wizards, although. She grew up mostly overseas and attended eight different schools, her favorite being the Hogwarts-type castle in Scotland. Kathryn Erskine spent many years as a lawyer before realizing that she’d rather write things that people might actually enjoy reading. It’s cold and hard and stiff on the outside and cavernous on. Here are links to our lists for the novel: Chapters 113, Chapters 1426, Chapters 2739. In this moving novel, Caitlins search for closure transforms her understanding of the world.

Kathryn Erskine spent many years as a lawyer before realizing that she'd rather write things that people might actually enjoy reading. When her brother Devon dies, Caitlin loses the person who understood her the best.

Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine