Also Known As Harper — Ann Haywood Leal

I have been Harper Lee Morgan mostly all of my life.

Harper 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 with too many bills and too little money. Then Harper's family gets evicted.

With Mama scrambling to make ends meet, Harper has to stay home from school to take care of her little brother, Hemingway. Their whole world has been turned upside down, which Harper could just about handle -- if it wasn't for the poetry contest at school. More than anything, she wants to get up on that stage and read her poems out loud....