02185cam a2200409 i 4500 1417161647 OCoLC 20240326122355.0 240112s2024 wau 000 1 eng d bl2024000975 9781662504501 (OCoLC)1417161647 AJM n-us--- n-us-tx PS3619.U476726 M63 2024 813/.6 23/eng/20240110 Rutledge, Lynda, 1950- author. 16125 Mockingbird summer : a novel / Lynda Rutledge. First edition. Seattle : Lake Union Publishing, [2024] ©2024 286 pages ; 23 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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. Housekeepers Fiction. 14100 Haitians United States Fiction. 16126 Race relations Fiction. 12093 Friendship Fiction. 6920 Books and reading Fiction. 6110 Softball teams Fiction. 16127 Texas Fiction. 13022 Historical fiction. lcgft 129 .b188413947 ddc BOOK 29401 29401 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2024-03-26 16.99 2 RUTL 65899 2024-06-18 2024-05-01 2024-03-26 BOOK 1