"Out of My Mind" can be a touching and eye-opening experience for you. It offers a window into the world of Melody, whose sharp intelligence and photographic memory are trapped without a voice due to cerebral palsy. This story challenges perceptions of disability, celebrates human resilience, and gives a fresh perspective on what it means to be heard. It's heartfelt and might just alter the way you think about the abilities within us all.

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• Josette Frank Award (2011)
• Buckeye Children's Book Award for 6-8 (2011)
• Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award for Grades 6-8 (2013)
• Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominee (2012)
• New Mexico Land of Enchantment Award for Young Adult (2013)
• California Young Readers Medal for Middle School/Junior High (2013)
• Washington State Sasquatch Award (2013)
• Bluestem Book Award (2013)
• Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Middle Grade & Children's Books (2010)
• Intermediate Nutmeg Book Award (2014)
• Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2013)
• لاک‌پشت پرنده Nominee (2016)
• Premi Protagonista Jove for Categoria 12-14 anys (2014)

Eleven-year-old Melody is not like most people. She can’t walk. She can’t talk. She can’t write. All because she has cerebral palsy. But she also has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She’s the smartest kid in her whole school, but NO ONE knows it. Most people—her teachers, her doctors, her classmates—dismiss her as mentally challenged because she can’t tell them otherwise. But Melody refuses to be defined by her disability. And she’s determined to let everyone know it…somehow.

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