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Mockingbird Summer
Mockingbird Summer | Lynda Rutledge
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A powerful and emotional coming-of-age novel set amid the turmoil and profound changes of the 1960s by the bestselling author of West with Giraffes. 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. Set on the eve of massive cultural shifts, Mockingbird Summer explores the impact of great books, the burden of potential, and the power of friendship with humor, poignancy, and exhilarating hope.
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rachaich
Mockingbird Summer | Lynda Rutledge
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Mehso-so

Book club choice after we'd enjoyed West With Giraffes.
The style is supposed to he a 13 year old narrator which didn't feel consistent and had a few cringy bits in it. I liked the historical perspective and that it covered important topics but it felt contrived.
Simple read and flew through it.

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julieclair
Mockingbird Summer | Lynda Rutledge
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#WondrousWednesday

1. Seinfeld
2. Monopoly, Risk, Clue
3. I‘m currently reading Mockingbird Summer (tagged), which features a Black girl playing on an all-White church girls‘ softball team in Texas in 1964.

Thanks for the tag, @Eggs ! Anyone else want to play?

Eggs #3 sounds really good! 4mo
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Allthebookclubs
Mockingbird Summer | Lynda Rutledge
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Mehso-so

Meh. A library book club pick, something I wouldn‘t have chosen and I didn‘t really enjoy it. I didn‘t like the way it was written, it was from Corky‘s point of view and also a narrator. I felt like it tried too hard to sugar coat segregation and came off as being told from June Cleavers point of view. It was very whitewashed. Book #51 in 2024