In search of Mockingbird

Description:

On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Erin receives her long-dead mother's diary, which reveals that she too revered Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" and wanted to be a writer, and Erin impulsively decides to take the Greyhound bus from St. Paul, Minnesota to Monroeville, Alabama, to visit the reclusive author.

subjects: Coming of age,  Diaries,  Buses,  Authorship,  Juvenile fiction,  Mothers,  Fiction,  Bus travel,  Fathers and daughters,  Bildungsromans,  To kill a mockingbird (Lee, Harper),  Children's fiction,  Buses, fiction,  Mothers, fiction,  Authorship, fiction,  Diaries, fiction