About the Book: Out Of My Mind
From award-winning author Sharon Draper comes Out of My Mind, the story of a
brilliant girl who cannot speak or write. "If there is one book teens and
parents (and everyone else) should read this year, Out of My Mind should be it"
(Denver Post). Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she
has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything she has
ever experienced. She is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her
and smarter than her classmates in her integrated classroom-the very same
classmates who dismiss