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Format:
Book
Title:
Out of my mind
ISBN:
9781416971719

9781613831335

9780606256728
Edition:
First Atheneum Books for Young Readers paperback edition.
Publication:
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2012.
Physical Description:
295 pages ; 19 cm
General Note:
Includes reading group guide.
Summary:
"Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school -- but NO ONE knows it. Most people -- her teachers and doctors included -- don't think she's capable of learning, and up until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-level alphabet lessons again and again and again. If only she could speak up, if only she could tell people what she things and knows...but she can't, because Melody can't talk. She can't walk. She can't write. Being stuck inside her head is making Melody go out of her mind -- that is, until she discovers something that will allow her to speak for the first time ever. At last Melody has a voice...but not everyone around her is ready to hear it." --From publisher.

A brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy, considered by many to be mentally retarded, discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
Reading Level:
700 Lexile.

Ages 10 up.

GRL S.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 4.3 8 Quiz 136421 English fiction, vocabulary quiz available, literary skills quiz available.
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