Out of My Mind (Paperback)

from rrossi1

This is a great novel about a girl with cerebral palsy. It goes through her elementary school life, and address all her hardships with not being able to communicate like "everyone else". She eventually gets a computer that she can have talk for her when she types into it. Overall, this book teach...

from sommerkirk

This novel describes a young girl, Melody, who feels as though she is trapped in her own mind. Melody goes throughout her elementary school years frustrated and unable to truly connect with others, until 5th grade. Melody gets a talking machine and is finally able to express herself. She competes...

from fitnessteachernomey

Our daughter's fourth grade teacher read this aloud to the class and our daughter came home saying, "Mom, you HAVE to read this book to Bubby." We got it from the library and read it and ate it up. Absolutely. We MISS the character now that the book is done being read. We will read it again. We g...

from Bell

My daughter loved this book

from Whisper1

Eleven year old Melody is trapped in her Cerebral Palsied body. While her body fails, her mind soars. Compiling mental lists of thousands of words, at an early age she perceived them as colors. As the images float in a brilliant kaleidoscope, she grieves that she cannot articulate and pronounce a...