Out of My Mind

Sharon M. Draper

$21.80

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Publication Date: May 1st, 2012

Publisher:

Turtleback Books

ISBN:

9780606256728

Pages:

320

This is the touching story of a gifted child,trapped in a barely working body. Melody, age 11, struggles to communicate with a world of children and adults most of whom can't see beyond her physical limitations. A provocative change of pace for Sharon Draper.

Peter Moore, The Blue Marble, Fort Thomas, KY

Spring 2010 Kids' Next List

Description

"If there is one book teens and parents (and everyone else) should read this year, Out of My Mind" should be it" (Denver Post").

Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her and smarter than her classmates in her integrated classroom--the very same classmates who dismiss her as mentally challenged, because she cannot tell them otherwise. But Melody refuses to be defined by cerebral palsy. And she's determined to let everyone know it...somehow. In this breakthrough story--reminiscent of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"--from multiple Coretta Scott King Award-winner Sharon Draper, readers will come to know a brilliant mind and a brave spirit who will change forever how they look at anyone with a disability.