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Out Of My Mind By Sharon M Draper
Out of my mind by Sharon M Draper

Out of my mind is a very interesting novel by Sharon M Draper, the book was published in 2010 by the Athenaeum book for young readers, the recommended age for this novel would be for 10 and up and I’m sure many adults would enjoy this book as well as young readers. This book is quite an easy read with only 295 pages.

The book starts with Melody Brooks an 11-year-old girl who suffers from cerebral palsy. It also talks about how she is surrounded by words that just get stored in her head as she is unable speak, walk and sadly she can’t dress herself, feed herself or even use the bathroom but her parents try and make her life as normal as possible. The only people who really believe that Melody took in every thing she heard or read and thought she really smart was her Mum, Dad and Mrs V her next door neighbour. …show more content…
Of course some people didn’t like the idea of that especially the two girls called Claire and Molly who were very unhappy about Melody and the others in their classes. Just when Melody thought her life was going good it got even better! She got a helper called Catharine who escorted her to and from her inclusion program classes. A few weeks before Christmas Melody pointed to the computer that Rose had and pointed her finger back to herself, Catharine under stood that Melody wanted a computer so that she could communicate instead of taping on her vocab board which was attached to her wheelchair. Over the next couple of weeks, Melody and Catharine looked into computers
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