Ultimately, Melody's self-acceptance, sense of humor, and loving nature are inspiring. They try to help her out but in the end it is up to her to make the big dicision to either keep the baby or put her up for adoption, to her boyfriends parents. She has to go through is with her mother and her freinds. 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. Sharon Draper has published a wide variety of books for young readers, including the acclaimed young adult novels Tears of a Tiger, which. November Blues is about a teenage girl that is pregnant but her boyfreind is dead. 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. 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. 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. Draper’s Jericho Trilogy and Coretta Scott King Honor Book, Jericho and November are locked together in pain from the past and fear for the future, and it feels as though there’s no way to escape either.When November Nelson loses her boyfriend, Josh, to a pledge stunt gone horribly wrong, she thinks her. Sixteen-year-old Josh Prescott dies jumping from a second-story window in a high-school.
Parents need to know that Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Sharon M. Kids call Melody and her disabled classmates "retarded" and make fun of them.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Language in your kid's entertainment guide.
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