Out of My Mind

This book had all my fellow school librarians talking a few years back when it was one of the Bluebonnet nominees. I ran across a copy a couple of months ago and was motivated by the appearance of the Medicine Chest Bookbox to finally read it.

Melody can't walk. She can't talk. She can't feed herself or go to the bathroom by herself. But she has a photographic memory and remembers everything she's ever seen. If only she could share with others....

And then she learns about a new computer that can speak for her. It changes her life.

What a great story. It reminds me a lot of another recent children's story that I loved, Wonder. A story that can build empathy, I think.