“Out of My Mind” by Sharon M. Draper. I remember the very moment I found this book. It was hidden among hundreds of others in my small library at my elementary school. I was skimming my fingers along the shelves until I noticed something that interested me, my finger stopping on this book. The cover was simple, a goldfish flying out of the water. It didn’t scream “This book is going to change your life!” or “You will cry for like an hour after reading this and your parents will think you are insane!” But nevertheless, I picked it up after skimming the summary. And I am very glad I did so.
I came home and hopped into bed as I began the long, heart-wrenching journey of this book, not prepared for what was coming. I opened the…show more content… This gave her a chance to show the world that genius she is, the emotions and words. Like telling her parents the three words she could never say, “I love you.” I remember tearing up as her parents began crying, her mother full on bawling while her father did so quietly. This computer, that gave her words, gave her the ability to show her classmates, her character. All of a sudden she had friends, she had the top spot on the trivia team which was going to nationals and everything in her life was going perfectly. And I could feel it, the knowledge that everything was going to crash but in denial, because I didn’t want for Melody to hurt. Everything came at once. I was flipping through the pages tears in my eyes and a whirlwind of emotions. First, Melody went to the airport for nationals only to find out that her team had left on an earlier flight and that there were no flights to make there in time due to the storm. Her parents angry and in denial, tried so hard to make Melody feel better. But she wasn’t angry like they were, she was just sad. As I kept reading the book, I was waiting for a miracle, for there to be an available flight or for the president to pick her up in a helicopter and win first place, anything. But there was no miracle. In fact, it got worse. Her sister got hit by a car, and she had tried so hard but without her computer, she could tell her mother that
