Lucy, Elena and Michael have been friends since kindergarten. It's the summer before they start high school, and they have to pick four books from a reading list to read before school starts. Lucy's mother has just returned home from the hospital where she has been declared miraculously cured from her terminal cancer. The kid's favorite English teacher suddenly died last fall, but he was a huge fan of To Kill of Mockingbird and had already told them that would be their only mandatory reading for the coming summer. Since Mockingbird is also Lucy's favorite book, she wants to everyone to read it as a tribute to Mr. Robert (Fat Bob) Nowak. So the three start hiding copies of the book in every bookstore and library they can, leaving a flyer saying I Kill the Mockingbird in its place. They start a website and Twitter account to spread the news of the "conspiracy." In short, they become literary terrorists.
This is a fun read that also has some good ideas for librarians to get kids reading. There are some touching moments between Lucy and her mom. Mockingbird is also my favorite book, so I was drawn to the title, and I wasn't disappointed.
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