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Sharon Draper’s Out of My Mind, based on her own experiences parenting a disabled child, is a New York Times best-selling novel told from the first-person perspective of 10-year-old Melody Brooks. Melody is a fifth-grade girl who, due to cerebral palsy, is unable to communicate verbally and is wheelchair-bound.

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