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Mockingbird

Mockingbird 2017-11-28

Sabrina

Gentle & brave earthling
Sabrina submitted a new resource:

Mockingbird - Novel about a girl with Asperger’s

View attachment 40382 In Caitlin’s world, everything is black or white. Things are good or bad. Anything in between is confusing. That’s the stuff Caitlin’s older brother, Devon, has always explained. But now Devon’s dead and Dad is no help at all. Caitlin wants to get over it, but as an eleven-year-old girl with Asperger’s, she doesn’t know how. When she reads the definition of closure, she realizes that is what she needs. In her search for it, Caitlin discovers that not everything is...

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I enjoyed it, though I did feel the portrayal of Asperger's was over-the-top at times. I've seen this book criticized because it portrayed empathy as something Caitlin needed to learn, rather than something she already had but had trouble expressing. I thought that was a good point. It's a good read, but not a perfect representation of Asperger's.
 
I love this book even if it isn't always accurate. Although every aspie different so who i'm to judge.

It made me happy to see my NT friend reading about aspies.

This book has nothing on Thr Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night Time.
 

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