Out of My Mind (The Out of My Mind Series) Paperback – May 1, 2012

If you want a true view of what happens in Sped classroom, this is on point .The good,bad and the ugly. Teachers and Paras who care about their students make the difference in children’s life and should be celebrated and acknowledged for all their hard/ heart work.

Out of My Mind….. going out of your mindWhat an amazing book “Out of My Mind by” by Sharon M. Draper. It is an incredible book that I read. In view of my middle level in English The structure of this book with chapters helped me alot to finish reading this book. I was never confident like I am now. I never had the courage to read a book in English with approximately 300 pages. This book treated the subject of the disabled people. He talked and treated all sides of this category. He talked about the suffering of this group. The story was about a genius girl with Cerebral Palsy that she can't talk or walk. She has amazing thoughts and ideas, but she’s never shared them with anyone. In fact, she’s never spoken a word.In the first part the writer showed how parents cope with disability and that it's a very difficult situation that everybody can face. Then he shows the emphasis and importance of the pet for the disabled that in fact they can feel each other without saying words. Furthermore This is the story of how the inclusion class gives her the opportunity to show her capacities and make her own place.In addition he talked about the benefits of technology that make her able to develop the skills by giving the tools to make her voice heard. With the help of her neighbor, Ms. Valencia, who believes Melody can do amazing things, her new aid, Catherine, and a computerized speaking device, Melody finally finds her voice so he talks about the support of the people around her. It's also the story of her commentary on how people treat her, and her experiences being in "special" education classes, how she is able to see the beauty and wisdom in her classmates that the rest of the school has "thrown away" in the dingiest classrooms in the corner of the school. It's also the story of a 5th grade little girl's desire to be accepted just as she is. I will give 5 stars to this book and I recommend It to all students to read .

1- It is incredible how Melody has many skills even though she has a disability but she tries to do the best doesnt feel different from another child.2- This book can be very helpful for teaching many people how to treat people with different kinds of disability and special for teachers that way how to educate their students and dont be discrimination with anyone.3-This book makes me reexamine myself because most of the time we don't know how to approach and treat the people with disability and most of the time we forget they have feelings like us.4-It was really sad when she did not reach the competition in Washington DC. It was terrible for her because that's her main goal.5- This story motivated me to understand the real life and complex situations that have to cope with many persons with disability around the world6- we can learn many things from this book but the most important is dont do any discrimination you must be respecful and polite all the time with the with disability even they have even they have different kinds of illness they are person with feelings like us.7- This is the first time I have read this book about disability and read different kinds of books like Mangaria Mathai, which was about the environment and Jackie Robinson was about civil rights.was really totally different like disability.8- The criticism of my side was that the end of the book was a little fiction history because it mixed some parts of the book with mystery and fiction scenes.9-My best impression was Melody how smart she is and how hard she works to be understood by her family and friends just to express her emotion.10- I like to recommend this book to teachers and students,it will be amazing to learn how real life is, for most of the people with disability and the complex situation to cope every day in their life.11-I will give 5 stars for this book