Bookwoman: The adventures of Corky and America

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Bookwoman: The adventures of Corky and America

“Mockingbird Summer,” by Lynda Rutledge Thirteen-year-old Corky Corcoran has a long hot Texas summer ahead of her. She will work at the soda fountain in her Dad’s pharmacy, play a little softball and experience her first kiss. Kerry Pettis /Bookwoman When she meets America, the daughter of her family’s house cleaner, she is immediately intrigued. America is several years older, has a Haitian background and lives on the “other side of the tracks”…