#Out Of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper

[ladyelainehilfur]

Hyper-specific book poll: ✨Popular Edition✨

If multiple apply, pick the one you feel most strongly about.

[scribble-brain-aced]

rereading a middle school book i still like (Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper) and i’m only just realizing how horrible the special ed classroom is for one of the background characters, oh my god

her name’s Gloria, and Melody mentioned that all she does is rock herself for hours in a corner of the classroom and that she’s pretty sure she’s autistic

and earlier, Melody said that her classroom was painted pink, with a bunch of smiling birds and flowers

oh my god that poor kid, if I were stuck in a bright pink classroom every day for 6 hours, i’d go insane, and i’ve never been overstimulated in my life, ajdndjdjdn someone save her

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Series info:

Book 1 of Out of My Mind

Book 2: Out of My Heart

[randomrichards]

OUT OF MY MIND:

Starting public school

Girl with cerebral palsy

Speaking for herself

[xarliclub]

Lo importante en una familia es la comunicación Pero, ¿qué pasa cuando no puedes hablar?

OutOfMyMind en #DisneyPlus a partir del 22 de nov

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[chaosalotl]

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hey, hi, hellooo! im Felix/Chaos, whichever is fine. i prefer he/him pronouns and im a minor so dont be weird :D

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games i adore; pokémon, tsp, stardew valley, acnh, wobbledogs, minecraft, genshin anddd hsr!

fav shows/movies; hilda (on netflix its sooo beautiful), amphibia, carmen sandiego (also netflix, HIGHLY recommend), kipo, she-ra, the mitchells vs the machines, spiderman across the spiderverse (the animation tickles my brain), owl house, mulan (i relate to reflection sooo hard), the princess and the frog, httyd, pokémon (indigo league and xyz specifically), brave, stitch, hercules, and the emperor’s new groove.

fav books; ‘Amari and The Night Brothers’ series by B.B. Alston, ‘Deephaven’ series by Ethan M. Aldridge, ‘The Clackity’ series by Lora Senf, ‘The Green Ember’ series by S. D. Smith, and ‘out of my mind’ by Sharon M. Draper.

okay, now music. when i say i like music, i mean i reaaaalllyyyy love music. some genres being folk, rock, gothic rock, celtic, hyperpop, pop, r&b, classical, indie, alt, and more i prob just dont remember the names for lol

(my spotify playlist/archive of songs i like has 2,046 songs fr fr)

ilovefrogsilovefrogsilovefrogsilovefrogsilovefrogsilovefrogs (glass frogs specifically are soo cool and interesting. their underbellies are translucent, so u can see their itty bitty organs n beating hearts if u place one on a transparent surface. ALSO they look like lil frog gummies from above. theyre my current favs besides the amazon milk frog)

also picrew bc why tf not

[rickmoya]

the books I read in 2024

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (1)

Digital Cosmopolitans, Ethan Zuckerman

Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson (2)

How To Take Over the World, Ryan North

To Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever, Will Blythe

Hark! A Vagrant/Step Aside, Pops, Kate Beaton (3)

Making a Point: The Persnickety Story of English Punctuation, David Crystal

Ducks, Kate Beaton

Operation Do-Over, Gordon Korman

Fight Club 2: The Tranquility Gambit, Chuck Palahniuk and Cameron Stewart (4)

The Fort, Gordon Korman

Romeo and/or Juliet, Ryan North

Turning Japanese, MariNaomi

Abroad in Japan, Chris Broad

Ready Player Two, Ernest Cline (5)

Interesting Stories for Curious People, Bill O'Neill (6)

Hell of a Hat: The Rise of '90s Ska and Swing, Kenneth Partridge

Swamp Story, Dave Barry

The Secret to Superhuman Strength, Alison Bechdel

Blood, Bones and Butter, Gabrielle Hamilton

Flavorama, Arielle Johnson

Welcome to St. Hell, Lewis Hancox

Peasprout Chen: Future Legend of Skate and Sword, Henry Lien (7)

The City of Ember, Jeanne DuPrau

Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner

Out Of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper

italics: read it before struck: unfinished

Maybe I just suck at reading now that I'm past 40? I don't know. The last few years I've been making excuses and padding out my list with rereads, but at some point you have to acknowledge the trends. My trend is fewer books. This might be the lowest number I've hit in any year since birth.

I also read ten years each of the webcomics Schlock Mercenary and Sluggy Freelance. Got to a point I hadn't read before, but not finished with either.

I did rotate some stock off my TBR shelf, at least. Not that you'd know to look at it — the shelf is as full as ever. Then again, at least four books up there are rereads, and three others are juv/YA. Maybe I'll make more progress in 2025.

Goals:

Ding 40. (I originally put 50, but, like, come on. Trend.)

At least 40% authors who are not white men. (I did OK there this year: 12/26, not counting the trans guy who is technically a white man.)

At least 10 books off the TBR.

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So. I've had this book on my TBR since college. (The first time.) I took a modernist English lit course where we read Ulysses and To the Lighthouse, and Mrs. Dalloway was one of the comparative important links, but after Joyce I wasn't gonna do it right away. I found my copy at a mega library sale around the time I graduated. Opened it several times over the last 25 years, but the stream-of-consciousness/internal-monologue style meant (for me) that I couldn't set it down and come back and remember what was going on. So finally I had a free day and read the whole thing in almost one go. (I technically didn't do this until July, but I attempted to do it during a day off in January, which is why it's first.)

Substitute teaching exposes me to a lot of teacher libraries. Sometimes during a prep period I can read stuff from them. For this book (which I'd heard of but never opened) I was covering a classroom that was empty for nearly four hours.

I started poring through Beaton's comics on her archived website. When I realized my library had two books of it in print, I checked those out for easier reading. This entry encompasses all of it.

It's a graphic novel! It's totally unnecessary! It gets way too meta (to the point that it acknowledges IN TEXT that it's too meta)!

If you feel like you need to read this, ask yourself: have I already read Ready Player One? If so, then ask: was my favorite part the constant Family Guy-style "memba this?" references. Because this is that, just with different fandoms.

My niece got me this one. It's like a book full of factoids or the beginnings of stories. Not immersive, but good for while waiting through piano lesson.

Another substituting library selection, about an alternate-universe Taiwan where the predominant mode of transportation/self-defense is ice skating. I had a prep, thought this is a stupid book and then read half of it before the day was over. So endearingly stupid, I checked it out of the public library to finish.

[chronically-kris]

27, 32, 42

My favourite book is Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper.

If I could go anywhere, I'd probably go to New Zealand, I've always wanted to visit there.

my five favourite blogs (in no particular order): @p1xelpc, @lesbonym, @sappho-favourite-pupil, @sapphickittykenz, aaaand @fortheloveofsapphics :)

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propaganda for Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper

This was the first book i ever read where the main character was a kid with a disability. There's parts that piss you off on her behalf & others that make you happy because of her excitement, it's just overall a great but sometimes gut wrenching story. I won't spoil much because it's just a good book that everyone should read, especially now that a sequel is out (and also because it's been a while since i read it).

this book deserves some love if you don't have a vested interest in any other prelim book in round 6 🥺

If you'd like to vote for Out of My Mind, it's in poll #6

[thedisabilitybookarchive]

'Out of My Mind'- Draper, Sharon M.

Disability Rep: Cerebral Palsy, Wheelchair User, AAC User, Non-Verbal

Genre: Contemporary, Realistic Fiction

Age: Middle-Grade, Young Adult

Setting: USA

Additional Rep: N/A

For more information on summaries, content warnings and additional tropes, see here:

[keepmeinyourmindsblog]

“out of my mind” is by far one of my favorite books, but i hate reading page 18 line three because the hard r is in it. im sorry sharon m draper im still a fan

[schizophrenicbulbasaur]

Hi, I saw you were taking asks to practice your AAC!

What's your favorite book, or just a book you really like? Why do you like it? What was your favorite part?

/nf

hi! thank you for the ask. we don't really have a favorite book. a book we like is Out of my Mind by Sharon M Draper. it is about a girl with cerebral palsy who can't walk or speak but is very very smart. she receives AAC in the book, and that was the first time we had heard of AAC. we first read the book when we were 10 but we want to read it again.

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Out of My Dreams by Sharon M. Draper

Out of My Dreams by Sharon M. Draper. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2024. 9781665949545 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 4.5 Format: Hardcover Genre: Realistic fiction What did you like about the book:   Melody from the Out of My Mind series, who is unable to walk or talk because of cerebral palsy, is back! In this book, Melody helps her elderly neighbor who has fallen…

[lees-chaotic-brain]

5,15,23 (i picked at random lol)

hi bee!!! how are you doing? thanks for dropping by!!!

5. What was your favorite book as a child?

ooh boy you opened a can of worms with this one. i was a massive bookworm as a child, like i read multiple books in a day, so it's literally impossible for me to choose,but if i had to compile the top five books from when i was younger it would probably look something like this (order doesn't matter):

-Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand. this book was what initially got me into writing, and i loved loved loved finley as a character because i identified with her so much

-Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper. this book is something that deeply impacted me. as ashamed as i am to admit it, there weren't any special education kids at my elementary school so i was kind of judgemental and snotty. this book literally rewired the way i looked at people with disabilities and helped me to grow so much as a person. to this day i still randomly think of melody, and remind myself to be a better person.

-Any and all Tamora Pierce books. These books introduced me to the idea of a badass fantasy female main character and i completely fell in love with the genre. I will always carry these books in my heart. they are my comfort books

-Wing of Fire series by Tui. T. Sutherland. i was obsessed, and still am obsessed, with dragons. i started reading this series when i was six, and when the 15 book series came to an end last year, i cried because i had literally spent the last eleven years of my life constantly waiting for the next book, then it was over. it felt like my childhood had ended

-Serafina and the Black Cloak series by Robert Beatty. this was literally my entire personality for three years. like i was a catamount for three halloween's in a row. i just loved the innocent romance, and how strong and fierce serafina was

15. Which element best represents you?

That's a really hard question to answer for me, but i think i would say wind maybe?? i'm very free-spirited and energetic, but i can also go from being completely calm and friendly to furious and raging to depressed and sad in a matter of minutes so...

23. Have you ever met someone famous?

So I've met Natalia Yurchenko and Chellsie Memmel, and they're famous gymnasts but other than that not really. I guess that the grandson of my grandma's best friend plays d1 college basketball, and his dad was a nfl player, but i've only met him once or twice

for this ask game!