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''Mockingbird'' is a young adult novel by American author Kathryn Erskine about a girl with Asperger syndrome coping with the loss of her brother. It won the 2010 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature.〔 ("National Book Awards – 2010" ). National Book Foundation (NBF). Retrieved 2012-04-16. (With acceptance speech by Erskine; interview, reading, and other material replicated for all five Young People's Literature authors and books.)〕〔 ("2010 National Book Award Winner, Young People's Literature" ) (November 17, 2010). NBF. Retrieved 2010-11-18. (Acceptance speech by Erskine with some other material.)〕 ==Plot== The main character is a girl named Caitlin Smith who has Asperger syndrome and is preoccupied with drawing and dictionaries. She has just experienced the loss of her brother Devon who has been killed along with a teacher and another student at a school shooting. Due to her condition, she finds it difficult to cope with her feelings about what has happened being awkward and pedantic, seeing things in black and white such as referring to her deceased brother as 'Devon who is dead' when talking to her father. Soon after she discovers the words ''empathy'' and ''closure'' and determines that this is what she and her distraught father need. With the help of a school counselor and art teacher, although initially being antagonistic, she is able to assist her father, a boy called Michael, whose mother was the teacher who got shot, and the school bully Josh, who is a cousin of the shooter, to cope. Eventually Caitlin, Michael, and Josh are all friends, and go to the dedication ceremony together. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mockingbird (Erskine novel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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