02238cam a2200409 i 4500 1362749751 TxAuBib 20240712120000.0 240112s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781662504501 hc. $28.99 1662504500 hc. $28.99 (OCoLC)1417161647 TxAuBib rda Rutledge, Lynda, author. Mockingbird summer [Book] : a novel / Lynda Rutledge. First edition. Seattle : Lake Union Publishing, [2024] ©2024. 286 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia 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. 20240712. Housekeepers Fiction. Haitians United States Fiction. Race relations Fiction. Summer Fiction. Interracial friendship Fiction. Segregation Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Books and reading Fiction. Softball teams Fiction. Texas Fiction. Historical fiction. RV8