A runaway seeks Harper Lee for answers

Sometimes the things that need to be discovered aren’t so easily found at home. Erin is certain that this is true in her case. A book is all that connects Erin to her mother, who died when she was a baby. But how much can Erin really learn about her mother from a tattered copy of To Kill a Mockingbird? On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Erin decides it’s finally time to find out. And so begins her bus journey from Minnesota to Alabama in search of Harper Lee, the reclusive author of Mockingbird.

In a novel full of quirky characters, strange coincidences, and on-the-road adventures, Loretta Ellsworth deftly traces a unique voyage of self-discovery.

About the Author(s)

Loretta Ellsworth

Loretta Ellsworth is the author of the acclaimed middle-grade novel The Shrouding Woman. A former schoolteacher and mother of four grown children, Loretta lives in Lakeville, Minnesota.

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Excerpt

Chapter Three
 Greyhound Bus Station
 
March 13, 1986, 7:30 p.m.
 
 
Dad’s  like Atticus. 
He’s the first to volunteer for a good cause.
I remember hanging on Dad’s pant leg at a golf
fund-raiser,
riding in the golf cart,
cheering him on at each hole. 
I was only seven years old, and

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