Out of My Mind
“This powerful story…offers a wrenching insight into so many vital lives that the able-bodied overlook.”
Denver Post
A New York Times Bestseller
A Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Book for Children and Teens
A Parents' Choice Award Silver Medalist
Winner of the 2012 Beehive Award for Fiction
Winner of the California Young Reader Medal
Winner of the 2012 Young Hoosier Book Award
Winner of the Flicker Tale Children’s Book Award for 2013
Second Place Winner for the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award
Winner of the 2014 Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award
Nominee for the Nene Award for Children's Fiction
Nominated for the 2013 Sequoyah Book Award
Nominated for the 2012 Texas Bluebonnet Award
Nominee for the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award
Finalist for the Indies Choice Award for Young Adult Fiction
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016
A New York Times bestseller for three years and counting!
“Unflinching and realistic.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
From award-winning author Sharon Draper comes a “gutsy, candid, and compelling” (School Library Journal, starred review) story that will forever change how we all look at anyone with a disability, perfect for fans of RJ Palacio’s Wonder.
Eleven-year-old Melody is not like most people. She can’t walk. She can’t talk. She can’t write. All because she has cerebral palsy. But she also has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She’s the smartest kid in her whole school, but NO ONE knows it. Most people—her teachers, her doctors, her classmates—dismiss her as mentally challenged because she can’t tell them otherwise. But Melody refuses to be defined by her disability. And she’s determined to let everyone know it…somehow.
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