She doesn’t care much for contemporary drama, especially if no sense of humor is evident. This is where N is not the target audience. I had heard good things about the read and when N and I were browsing, I pointed to the outward facing book on the shelf. But one has to get to the dust jacket because how boring is that cover?! * And perhaps if she “Works at It,” Caitlin and her father can have Closure and Empathy, too.Ī warm and loving book gives young readers a rare glimpse of a very special world and a brave and very special girl. In her search for it, she discovers that not everything is black and white–the world is full of colors, messy and beautiful. After reading the definition of Closure, Caitlin knows this is just what she and her father needs. She turns to textbooks and dictionaries, easy for Caitlin because they’re full of facts in black and white. She wants to help her dad–and herself!–but as a ten-year-old girl with Asperger’s syndrome, she doesn’t know how. But now Devon’s dead, and her father crise a lot. That’s the stuff Caitlin’s older brother, Devon, has always explained. In Caitlin’s world, everything is black or white. The suggested audience is 10 & up but after skimming some reviews and reading others, I was curious if only adults were the ones excited by this novel. And it was the Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature 2010. There was quite the positive buzz going some months ago. Captivating and unusual, this novel skillfully portrays a person whose curse and blessing is a brain capable of seeing the world through an exclusively literal lens.I am late to the “reviewing” of Kathryn Erskine’s Mockingbird. In the style of his favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, Christopher sets off to discover Wellington’s murderer.
One day, a part of his carefully constructed world goes haywire when his neighbor’s dog, Wellington, is killed. He constructs his world around a series of patterns and rules, and keeps a diagram with him at all times.
He is gifted with an extremely logical mind, but everyday interactions mean little to him. There are two things he absolutely cannot stand: being touched by other people, and the color yellow. He has trouble interpreting human emotion, but he can understand animals. Christopher knows every prime number up to 7,057 and the capital of every country in the world.
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