Book Review Mockingbird Philomel Books, 2010,235 pp., $15.99 Kathryn Erskine ISBN 978-0-339-25264-8 Just imagine, not knowing what to do in real life situations or when to help in the book Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine, Caitlin Smith doesn't have an average 5th grade life. She is diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome and her brother, Devon Smith, explained everything she needed to know about the world. Although she had a dictionary and a reading average in kindergarten that was off the charts, Devon had died. In a school shooting in Virginia. I think the author did an okay job of describing Asperger's syndrome. I think she did an okay job because she was pretty much just telling the impacts that are with the syndrome. It was hard for me to fill in the other boxes of the bookmark, besides the challenges faced and how handled. Most impacts were about ow Catherine didn't make friends and didn't like colors, and when people yell. Although the book was very good i felt it needed more information on the disability. My opinion of the book is positive. This book was one of the best books i have ever read! I like the emotion and at the same time comedy in the book it was very well detailed and well told. I liked how the author wrote the book in Caitlin's perspective. The comedy in the book is very pure and original. As for the emotion it is very touching and realistic. I think this book is more of a girly book. i would recommend Mockingbird to girls in middle school because it would be a little bit of a hard book for 4th graders and under, also i wouldn't think they would understand vocabulary and the disability. Because i even had a little trouble with some of the vocabulary. The author wrote this book because the school was in her backyard. It inspired her to write about it because it happened in her backyard. She added the disability because it would be more interesting.
Mockingbird Philomel Books, 2010,235 pp., $15.99
Kathryn Erskine ISBN 978-0-339-25264-8
Just imagine, not knowing what to do in real life situations or when to help in the book Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine, Caitlin Smith doesn't have an average 5th grade life. She is diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome and her brother, Devon Smith, explained everything she needed to know about the world. Although she had a dictionary and a reading average in kindergarten that was off the charts, Devon had died. In a school shooting in Virginia.
I think the author did an okay job of describing Asperger's syndrome. I think she did an okay job because she was pretty much just telling the impacts that are with the syndrome. It was hard for me to fill in the other boxes of the bookmark, besides the challenges faced and how handled. Most impacts were about ow Catherine didn't make friends and didn't like colors, and when people yell. Although the book was very good i felt it needed more information on the disability.
My opinion of the book is positive. This book was one of the best books i have ever read! I like the emotion and at the same time comedy in the book it was very well detailed and well told. I liked how the author wrote the book in Caitlin's perspective. The comedy in the book is very pure and original. As for the emotion it is very touching and realistic.
I think this book is more of a girly book. i would recommend Mockingbird to girls in middle school because it would be a little bit of a hard book for 4th graders and under, also i wouldn't think they would understand vocabulary and the disability. Because i even had a little trouble with some of the vocabulary.
The author wrote this book because the school was in her backyard. It inspired her to write about it because it happened in her backyard. She added the disability because it would be more interesting.