Re: Books to use with - or in place of - To Kill a Mockingbird

[Toby Zabinski <zabinski@PANTHEON.YALE.EDU>]

Two more great suggestions have been received that I would like to add to
the list of books for To Kill a Mockingbird!

This is a little late but what about _Cold Sassy Tree_ by Olive Burns
(Bruns?).  When it came out, it was reviewed as the next To Kill and is a
story set in the south at the turn of the century and told through the eyes
of a young boy.  His beloved grandmother dies at the beginning of the
story -- kind of the matriarch of the family -- and, to the dismay of
everyone, his grandfather marries a young hatmaker from the family-owned
department store three weeks later because he's "lonely" and she's on the
rebound from a broken relationship.  It's funny and sad and says a lot of
truth about people.  Olive Burns wrote it while going through chemotherapy,
wrote a sequel that wasn't nearly so good, and, sadly, died right after the
sequel's release.



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Also  Dangerous skies by Suzanne Fisher Staples -

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