Sharon M. Draper's Out Of My Mind

Since birth, a little girl by the name of Melody was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. That is a disorder that affects movement, muscle tone, and motor skills. It causes reflex movements that the person can’t control and it causes muscle tightness that can affect a part of the body if not the whole body. Ever since she was born, she was loved and cared for but she wasn’t able to say a single word. The book’s title is “Out of My Mind,” by Sharon M. Draper. It focuses on a disabled girl and her thoughts. Most fiction books have author’s purposes and this book’s author’s purpose is to entertain and inform.

Hello, reader today I will be talking about a realistic fictional book called Faceless, by Alyssa Sheinmel. The story takes place in a suburb of San Francisco in the present day, it is the end of the school year. Maisie Winters, a seventeen-year-old girl, tells this story in first person narrative. When someone told me about Faceless, I want’ed to read it. I have read a book about a face transplant and it sounded intriguing.

I read a book that is called Counting By 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan and it’s a realistic fiction. it's about a girl named willow she is adopted, she's different from all of the other people in the school maybe because she skipped a grade, and both of her parent’s passed away. She starts from when the police told her the news and then starts from the beginning telling her story and we find out different things about willow like how she likes learning about medical things and how she skipped a grade. But when it comes back to the present she finds that she is going to have to become strong and that there will be ups and downs.

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The book I read is called Forget Tomorrow.by The author is Pintip Dunn. In the story a girl named Callie lives in a world where all kids receive their memory at age seventeen, for Callie her memory is that she kills her little sister that is gifted. The only help she has is her crush Logan. While she is in jail Logan rescues her. In the book it takes us on Callie’s Callies adventure on how she will save her sister from herself.

(1) Patrick Carman’s Pulse is a fantasy action book that tells the story of a young girl named Faith Daniels, who lives on the outside of the states and finds out she has special abilities that need to be trained for an upcoming battle against the states with the help of Dylan Gilmore, a friend and love interest she made throughout the book. (2) The book starts with a young girl named Faith sleeping, but she isn’t just sleeping, objects are somehow moving by themselves around her without her noticing. (3) During school, her life was pretty normal if it weren’t for the fact that a very sporty boy named Wade Quinn decided to force Faith into a relationship with him and went on a date with her, feeding her two wire codes, which is basically something

Most children are not very fond of reading books in school. I was one of those children until I read a novel called, “The Other Side of Dark” written by Joan Lowery Nixon in the 4th grade. My school had held a book fair during the week of open house. As a child, all children want the toys and games they had at the book fair, not bothering to even glance at the books. My mother told me to look for a book that was not only easy for me to read but something that I would enjoy. I walked around our petite library, which was where the book fair was being held, and scanned the various novels that were displayed until one caught my eye. I was only 10 years old looking for a book without the knowledge of what types of literature that interested me. As I turned the corner at the end of the library I caught a glimpse of a hardcover novel called “The Other Side of Dark”. On the back of novel I read the synopsis which was about a 13 year-old girl who was shot and put into coma until she was 17 years old waking up to discovering that her family was also murdered by the same person who shot her 4 years ago. I was quickly captivated by this summary on the back of the novel and persuaded to read further. Open house was coming to an end and my family and I headed back to our house in La Mirada, California. One of our homework assignments was to read at least 20 minutes a night to improve our reading skills. We quickly arrived at our home and I

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In American Literature a well know American author is Sharon M. Draper, who wrote the novel Tears of a Tiger. The time period that Draper grew up in played an important role in her decisions on her future which led her to become a teacher and a writer. From years of experience with teaching kids aged in high school helped her for the time period in which she wrote her work. Through the biography of Sharon M. Drapers life, the piece of literature Tears of a Tiger all intertwine into the main idea of her time period. Through the novel Sharon puts in many life experiences for teenaged people. Through the time period that Sharon M. Draper grew up in and how her parents raised her helped determine her future and how she looked at life, which is reflected in her literature.

Family, friends, but still alone. In the book If You’re Lucky, written by Yvonne Prinz, The main character, Georgia, loses her brother to a surfing accident while he was away in Australia. But the accident had not made any sense to Georgia because she knew that Lucky knew better than to go out into bad water. Lucky’s girlfriend and one of his friends come back to Georgia and her family. But Fin, Lucky’s friend, seems to know something more about what happened when he starts to take over things that Lucky used to do, such as working on their father’s oyster farm and taking Lucky’s old girlfriend Sonia. Georgia has to comprehend everything that is going on. She has to take medication because she has the mental illness called Schizophrenia. She also uses the medication to help out with her brothers tragic and sudden death. But when Fin starts taking over Lucky’s old life, she stops taking them, hoping it will help her understand better. Georgia develops over the plot of the story because first, she is really just there. She is present in the story, but not mentally present, she is kind of just going along with things. Then, Georgia soon senses that something is going on and that lies are being told. Then lastly, Georgia gets involved and stops taking her medication to make sure that she can stay intact with what is actually happening with Fin taking over Lucky’s old life. Georgia developes the freedom of being her own self and develops the courage to go and figure things out

The book I read this summer and one of my all-time favorite novels is November Blues. The book is the second part of the Jericho series. It was written by a phenomenal author Sharon M. Draper. November Blues follows two characters. November Nelson is a 16 year old girl who finds out she is pregnant by her late boyfriend who recently passed away in a hazing accident. Jericho Prescott, a 16 year old boy, who is depressed because he just lost his cousin who was like a brother to him in the same hazing prank he was in. I adore this book because it deals with real life adolescent problems; like relationships, bullying, school, and pregnancy.

The book Copper Sun by Sharon Draper is a sorrowful story about Amari’s journey through

The book, Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer, tells the story of Hope Yancy as she realizes what life is about; letting go of pain and hurt, and cherishing the love. The main character is a sixteen year old waitress named Hope Yancy. She feels she is the person to enlist hope in others and in herself since changing her name from Tulip to Hope. She is a terrific waitress, like her mother. Her mom, Deena, left her older sister to care for Hope after she was born early and could barely eat because she felt she wasn’t ready for motherhood. Addie, Hope’s aunt, is the head or chief cook and manager of diners and eateries she has worked at. She is always thinking about Hope and their lives together. Hope was her only chance at motherhood after three miscarriages

Out of My Mind is a novel by Sharon M. Draper. In this novel, Melody Brooks is an eleven-year-old girl with cerebral palsy. Melody's body is stiff and uncooperative, forcing her to use a wheelchair. Her mind works well, but she cannot speak. Melody hates her boring special education classes and the fact that she cannot make her thoughts and opinions known, even to her parents. Hence Melody has to fight to get what she wants. Eventually, Melody is given a computer that helps her speak and communicate in a regular fifth grade class. Melody even gets the opportunity to participate in a trivia competition. Unfortunately, even great success cannot change opinions of those who cannot see beyond the physical. This is a fact Melody is forced to face despite everything she accomplishes. Out of My Mind is a brilliant novel that takes the reader into the world of an amazing eleven year old girl who eventually realizes she is no different from the kids around her despite her body's disabilities.

An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff was a very moving and inspirational read for myself that made me feel appreciative and grateful for everything that has been given to me in my life. In the memoir, An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff, an active advertisement sales representative residing in Manhattan comes across a homeless eleven-year-old panhandler on the street whose unexpected friendship becomes life-changing. While reading this memoir, I was taken by surprise at how the simple things in most people's lives were nonexistent in Maurice’s unfortunate life. Such things are knowing how to blow your nose, or that single family homes existed. In addition, I enjoyed reading how Laura and Maurice’s lives parallel in the way that they both grew