Out of my mind

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Label

Out of my mind

Statement of responsibility

Sharon M Draper

Creator

• trueDraper, Sharon M., (Sharon Mills)
• Draper, Sharon M

Subject

• Juvenile Literature
• trueRealistic fiction
• trueCerebral palsy
• Electronic books
• Juvenile Fiction
• trueFifth-graders
• trueGenius
• trueInterpersonal relations
• trueAfrican American fiction
• trueGirls with disabilities
• trueEleven-year-old girls
• truePeople with disabilities
• trueCommunication
• truePhotographic memory

Genre

• trueAfrican American fiction
• trueRealistic fiction
• Electronic books

Language

eng

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 thinks 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 multiple Coretta Scott King Award winner Sharon M. Draper comes a story full of heartache and hope. Get ready to meet a girl whose voice you'll never, ever..

Theme

• trueLiving with visible disability

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven

Tone

• trueMoving

Writing style

• trueAttention-grabbing
• trueConversational

Character

• trueAbility diverse

Award

• Beehive Children's Fiction Book Award (Utah), 2012.
• Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Maryland), Grades 6-9, 2012.
• Bluestem Award: Illinois' Grades 3-5 Readers' Choice Award, 2013.
• Buckeye Children's Book Award (Ohio), Grades 6-8, 2011.
• California Young Reader Medal, Middle School, 2013.
• Flicker Tale Children's Book Award (North Dakota) for Juvenile Fiction, 2013.
• Josette Frank Award, 2011.
• Land of Enchantment Book Award (New Mexico), Young Adult category, 2013.
• Mark Twain Award (Missouri), 2013.
• Massachusetts Children's Book Award, 2014.
• Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award (Minnesota), Division II (Grades 6-8), 2014.
• Nutmeg Children's Book Award, Intermediate category, 2014.
• Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards, Grades 6-8, 2013.
• Prairie Pasque Children's Book Award (South Dakota), 2013.
• Sunshine State Young Reader's Award (Florida), 2012.
• Virginia Readers' Choice Award for Middle School, 2012.
• Young Hoosier Book Award, Middle Books, 2013.

Cataloging source

TEFOD

Index

no index present

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

700

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 4
• 6

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

juvenile