02581cam a2200469 i 4500 1192689434 TxAuBib 20240403120000.0 240219s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023951992 9798891640993 (OCoLC)1422311549 TxAuBib rda Rutledge, Lynda, 1950-, author. Mockingbird summer : a novel / Lynda Rutledge. Center Point Large Print edition. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2024. ©2024. 500 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Regular print version previously published by Amazon Publishing. Includes author's note with background information. Includes bibliographic references (page 427). In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. It's also where two girls are going to shake things up. This is the last summer of thirteen-year-old Corky Corcoran's childhood, and her family hires a Haitian housekeeper who brings her daughter, America, along with her. Corky is quick to befriend America and eager to share her favorite new "grown-up" novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. America's take on it is different and profoundly personal. As their friendship grows, Corky finds out so much more about America's life and her hidden skill: she can run as fast as Olympian Wilma Rudolph! When Corky asks America to play with her girls' softball team for the annual church rivals game, it's a move that crosses the color line and sets off a firestorm. As tensions escalate, it fast becomes a season of big changes in High Cotton. For Corky, those changes will last a lifetime. 20240610. Lee, Harper. To kill a mockingbird Influence Fiction. Teenage girls Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Race relations Fiction. Softball teams Fiction. Books and reading Fiction. Housekeepers Fiction. Nineteen sixties Fiction. Haitians United States Fiction. Large type books. fast Texas Fiction. Social problem fiction. Historical fiction. fast Large print books. lcgft