Describe The Relationship Between Louise And Tom Shirley

The book has been set in the 1900’s Brisbane, Australia. ‘The Ratcatchers Daughter’ is about 13 year old Isabel Mckelvie and how her life was turned upside down. Her father is a ratcatcher, her mother stays at home with her gran and her sister Kate works as a maid with the Slades at a doctors surgery. Isabel would like to further her education but her family can’t afford it so she has to go work instead. Issy is sent works at the Lewis’ house at an undertaking establishment as a maid like her sister. The Howards are the Mckelvie’s neighbours. The son, Albert Howard catches a sickness, because of this the Mckelvie's, Hoards and the other neighbours are all sen off to a quarantine that has not yet been finished. At the quarantine, sadly Albert dies. During the Mckelvie’s stay at quarantine they are visited by Issy’s employers and Kate’s employers. Issy’s employers asked is they need anything, and they sent packages full of new clothes for the Mckelvies. Then Kate’s employers get them out of quarantine because they have not showed symptoms of the plague for __ weeks. When they come back Issy starts work again.

Throughout the story it is obvious the mother, Mabel, cares deeply about her newborn baby girl, so much that she becomes obsessively worried about her health. Instead of accepting the doctors unconcerned opinion, and what is out of her

Tom and Louise went through a long struggle to find out what was wrong with her daughter after she was born. Before she was born, Louise acquired a rubella rash. She went to her doctor and got a vaccination, but the doctor informed her that Lynn would be 25% susceptible to defects since her mom had rubella. When Lynn was born, she seemed completely normal and healthy, but the risk of congenital defects still loomed in Tom and Louis’ minds. Three months after Lynn was born, the family took Lynn to a fourth of July parade, and they noticed that Lynn didn’t seem flustered when the loud sirens passed by. Incredibly alarmed by this, Louise and Tom made sure to pay greater attention to see if something could be very wrong. After encountering plenty of hints to see that something was wrong, Louis brought Lynn to her doctor, Dr. Bales, and he explained to her that it would be difficult to see if she was deaf being

Gabby is an eight-year-old from Billings, Montana that appears at first glance to be an infant. She is two feet tall and weighs only eleven pounds. Gabby is growing at the speed of one year for every eight years. She is the second oldest to six children, which are growing at normal speed. Gabby also functions as if she were an infant. She is unable to walk, talk and is partially blind. Gabby has a condition called cortical blindness which according to research (1987) is normally related to cardiac issues which Gabby does not have. Although Gabby is unable to attend school she is able to develop the social skills needed by her siblings by participating in activities such as nail painting and dress up. Also Gabby’s parents have a specialist come to

Have you ever struggled before? If you have or are struggling then you either need help or you need to figure it out on your own like Mattie, grandfather and the people of Philadelphia. The book is called Yellow Fever 1793 by Laurie halse Anderson and it is about how Mattie and her Grandfather and the people of Philadelphia as they are struggled through Yellow Fever.This Is about how the whole city of Philadelphia struggled during Yellow Fever.

Kathy Goebel is a 16.2 year old English speaking female, who lives with her parents and two sisters. According to Mrs. Goebel (Kathy’s mother), she had normal pregnancy and delivery with Kathy, weighing 8 pounds and 6 ounces. Mrs. Goebel claimed Kathy met all of her developmental milestones such as walking, talking, and toileting within the expected times. Mr. Goebel (Kathy’s father) and Kathy were involved in a car accident when Kathy was 8 years old. Due to the accident, Kathy fractured two ribs and sustained a closed head injury. Mr. Goebel and Mrs. Goebel both believe Kathy’s communication impairment may be due to the closed head injury from the car accident.

The setting of this book is in Terri’s childhood home in Ontario Canada. The time period is the 1960s-1970s.

In the book an old, girls orphanage burns down. The orphanage doesn't have enough money to rebuild it's self, so all the girks have to find a home. All the younger girls get adopted and no one wants to adopt the 7 teenagers. The matron gives each of those seven girls some money she's been saving and tells them the little she knows about there past. She told Sara (the main character in the book) she's Jewish, and she was born in Germany. She goes to Germany finds the doctor who signed the form to let her go to Canada and he wants nothing to do with her. The doctors assistant desires to help her find a place to live And arrangements to take her back to Canada. Sara asks the boy to help her find her mom or any information about her mom. They

It had probably been about an hour or so after they had woken up, they had nothing to look forward to like school, sports or even playing outside with their friends- they hadn't been outside since their parents left, except for Karla- all there was to look forward to was eating once a day. No one knew what day it was or what time it was but it was probably in late January, they had missed Hanukkah. It was then about 10:00 pm and all the kids were sleeping besides for Klara, she was looking around in the dark, small place in the basement, she was wondering if she and the kids would make it through World War II, if they did where they would go (because for all they knew Claudia could have been dead) and how would they live. A pounding sound on the floor above startled Karla and she lost her train of thought. Her heart pounded harder as the pounding got closer and closer to the basement, then her life started to fall apart after one single second. One of the officers lifted up the top of the emergency room door and there he was, a tall man with perfectly jelled brown hair and dirt ugly brown eyes that matched the ugly off green uniform they wore.

This novel is based on the life of a sixteen year old illiterate girl named Claireece Precious Jones. She was kicked out of her alternative school due to the administrators finding out about her second pregnancy. You may ask, “Who is the father? She is barely sixteen!” Answer is, her father. Her father left Claireece's mother for his own daughter. That resulted in her mother being furious which lead to an abusive relationship with her daughter.. Despite the fact that her life has been muddled, she looks on the positive side and tries to go on hoping to have a brighter future. Along the way she makes some friends

After one of the more brutal attacks, David's mother was left helpless on the floor, blood trickling from her head. She now suffers hearing problems.

She was able to communicate with her husband by petting his hair and hitting him on the head. Also she could sing to him since it was the left side of the brain that was damaged. The right side of the brain controls art and music. The amazing thing about this tragic medical accident was that she was able to find a way to communicate with her husband. It may not have been a way he'd prefer, but in someway it was a way he could

Subsequent medical history is noteworthy for Cerebral Palsy, hydrocephalus, and. Ella's foster mother reports a history of broken bones, car crash. and stated the following, ''Ella was hurt in a car crash several years ago when I was hit from behind, and she needed neck surgery.'' There is a history of seizures, and Ella's foster mother reported the following ''She had a seizure last year when she was sick. She hasn't had any seizures after that. '' Ella's foster mother also reported the following medical information, ''She uses her left hand pretty well, but has trouble moving her right hand and both legs. ''

Caring for my family members had shaped my future career decisions tremendously and it was unknown to me for a great period of time. A year after my youngest brother was born, we started to notice his speech wasn’t as clear as most babies his age and frustration with his words would cause him to not speak as much. Worried, my mother had several different tests done to find out if there was anything wrong with

Originally, Makenna’s mother made a request for an evaluation by the Douglas County Infant and Toddler program in December of 2005. She was evaluated and received speech-language services through the Tiny-K program in Douglas. Six months later, Makenna was re-evaluated to determine if she qualified for Part B (the school age program for children ages 3-21 years old. Because she was turning three years old, and would no longer be eligible for Tiny-K services, an evaluation was requested to determine if she met the qualifications for special education services for children 3-21 years of age. Based on the testing, Makenna was placed in special