Also known as Harper

By Ann Haywood Leal

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

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 . . .