Also known as Harper

By Ann Haywood Leal

Subjects: Dysfunctional families, Family life, Selective mutism, Juvenile fiction, Single-parent families, fiction, Physically handicapped, Brothers and sisters, Fiction, Children's fiction, Family problems, Poets, fiction, People with disabilities, Poets, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Siblings, People with disabilities, fiction, Single-parent families, Speech

Description: Harper Lee Morgan is an aspiring poet, which isn’t surprising, seeing as how she’s named after her mama’s favorite writer, Harper Lee. And life is giving her a lot to write about just now. Daddy up and walked out, leaving them broke. Then Harper’s family gets evicted. With Mama scrambling to find work, Harper has to skip school to care for her little brother, Hemingway. Their lives have been turned upside down, which Harper could just about handle—if it wasn’t for the writing contest at school. If only she could get up on that stage and read her poems out loud . . .