Out of My Mind

I love, love, LOVED Sharon Draper’s OUT OF MY MIND.  Melody has cerebral palsy.  She’s stuck in a wheel chair and can’t talk.  She’s the smartest kid in her school.  No one knows this, since she has never said a word.  Melody ends up in the special education classroom in her school reviewing the alphabet every day.  Someday Melody will find a way to communicate with the world.

OUT OF MY MIND really displays the frustration a disabled child must have.  It is full of beautiful descriptions and fully developed characters.  This book is amazing, but parts of it are very sad.  I didn’t want to stop reading it.  I hope other people will enjoy OUT OF MY MIND as much as I did.