AuthorSharon M. Draper
NarratorSisi Aisha Johnson
Duration6h 40m
CategoriesChildren's Fiction
Key StageKS2
PublisherSimon & Schuster
VersionUnabridged
Parents need to know that Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Sharon M. Draper's Out of My Mind is narrated by a girl with cerebral palsy who's very intelligent but unable to express herself verbally or physically. When Melody is integrated into some general classes at school, many kids are purposely mean; others, including teachers, are cruel through their assumptions that Melody is incapable of understanding them. With the help of her parents and some supportive friends and teachers, Melody acquires a machine that allows her to communicate better than she ever has before. This gains her a measure of peer acceptance -- but also opens her up to hurt when she realizes she can never really be like everyone else. Ultimately, Melody's self-acceptance, sense of humor, and loving nature are inspiring.
Author: Sharon M. Draper
Author Sharon M. Draper
Narrator Heather Alicia Simms
Duration 6h 46m
When the Ku Klux Klan makes an unwelcome reappearance in Stella's segregated southern town, bravery battles prejudice in this Depression-era tour de force from Sharon Draper, the New York Times bestselling author of Out of My Mind. Stella lives in the segregated South-in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact about it. Some stores she can go into....
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