Chapter Sixty-Four: Mockingbird

So while I was reshelving books in the middle school library, I chanced across Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine.  The cover intrigued me, so I read the back of the book... then the first few pages... the first few chapters... and the whole book!  The narrator-protagonist is Caitlin, a ten-year-old girl with Asperger's Syndrome who is grieving the death of her older brother and is also trying just to deal with day to day life at school.  She is a really fascinating narrator; it was mostly because of her narration that I couldn't put this book down as I read about her attempts to find closure and to make new friends.  For those of you who are interested, this book is a National Book Award winner.  This is a very quick read,  and it is a really heartwarming story.  It was all I could do to keep myself from sobbing (from happiness) while I read the end at the gym.