![]() Support comes from a school counselor who encourages Caitlin to make new friends, an art teacher who helps Caitlin to explore her feelings through her wonderful drawings, and in a first grader, who desperately needs a big sister because he’s suffered a loss.īut, it is Caitlin who one day realizes what closure really means for her family. She turns often to her best friend, a dictionary, where she can look up words to understand reactions and the world around her. Yes, she misses her relationship with Devon, but to translate that into an emotion is beyond her. For Caitlin, it is simply THE DAY OUR LIFE FELL APART. She sees her father, family, friends, and teachers expressing grief and emotion. Grey is not comprehensible, and colors only run together and blur her vision. Caitlin has Asperger’s Syndrome, and feeling emotion doesn’t register. ![]() What she doesn’t understand is how she’s supposed to feel about Devon’s death. Mockingbird, is an exceptional middle grade book by Kathryn Erskine, about 10-year-old Caitlin, whose older brother, Devon, was killed in a shooting at the middle school. ![]()
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