Out of My Mind Paperback - 2012

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 classroomthe 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 shes determined to let everyone know itsomehow. In this breakthrough storyreminiscent of The Diving Bell and the Butterflyfrom 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.

Details

• Title Out of My Mind
• Author Sharon M. Draper
• Binding Paperback
• Edition Reprint
• Pages 320
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• Date 2012-05-01
• Features Price on Product - Canadian
• ISBN 9781416971719 / 1416971718
• Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
• Dimensions 7.6 x 5.1 x 1 in (19.30 x 12.95 x 2.54 cm)
• Ages 10 to 13 years
• Grade levels 5 - 8
• Reading level 700
• Themes
  • Topical: Family
  • Topical: Physically Challenged
• Library of Congress subjects People with disabilities, Interpersonal relations
• Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009018404
• Dewey Decimal Code FIC