Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine"Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff inside doesn't change. People say you can't judge a book by its cover but that's not true because it says right on the cover what's inside. And no matter how many times you read that book the words and pictures don't change. You can open and close books a million times and they stay the same. They look the same. They say the same words. the charts and pictures are the same colors.
Books are not like people. Books are safe." p. 34
"I don't like the word soon because you don't know when its going to sneak up on you and turn into NOW. Or maybe it'll be the kind of soon that never happens. Like when I asked Dad and Devon when the chest would be finished. They said soon." p. 45
"Mrs. Johnson gives me back my group project. It says Well Researched and Very Interesting and Excellent but at the bottom she also writes, Why are there capital letters in the middle of your sentences? Common nouns are not capitalized. Only the special words are capitalized. I look at my paragraph. I did not put capital letters in the middle of the sentences. They are only at the beginning of some words. She has put an X over the H in Heart and written a lowercase h. It doesn't look right that way. I'm sure she's wrong about the special words and capital letters even though she's a teacher. How can any word be more special that Heart?." p.62-63
(Quotes are from an Advance Uncorrected Galley)
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