Also known as Harper
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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 . . .
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These days, a kid's book with a character who has a mom and dad and a sibling or two where everyone is functional and getting along and pretty happy...does anyone even write books like that? (Of course, some might say it's because there are no families like that.) Also Known as Harper has a main character, Harper, with lots of problems. Dad has gone. Just like that. Her brother, Hemingway (see what inspires Mom?) waits for Dad every day to return. Mom is having trouble paying rent and keeping her job. Harper is missing school even though she wants desperately to enter the poetry writing contest. Lots of troubles.
It's Harper's writing that keeps her going and introduces her to people who can help her along, too.
