Oh. My. Gosh. This book is completely ridiculously good. It was described very well in the description above, and definitely gives you all those YA feels right down into your heart. I will most likely be aggressively throwing this book at other readers for the next few months to try and get them...
Oh, how I wanted to give this book four or five stars...for originality, for portraying main characters with a handicap (Amy has cerebral palsy) and with mental illnesses (Matthew has OCD), for being beautifully written. The book is all of those, but it also has some major shortcomings. A very sh...
DNF:14%Amy and Matthew: A Love Story is the story of a girl with cerebral palsy and a boy who suffers from OCD. They have never talked before in school but when he confronts her about herself she decides to make a change. Amy persuaded her mother to get rid of her adult aides and get pupils from ...
Neighborhood Watch, by Cammie McGovern, Borrowed from National Library for the Blind, available also from audible.com, produced by Tantor Media.12 years ago, librarian Betsy Treading was convicted of murdering her neighbor, the bohemian loner Linda Sue. After DNA testing finally exonerates Betsy,...
Eye Contact wants to be two books. The better book follows the path of acceptance and eventual, albeit limited, understanding between Adam, a nine-year-old autistic boy, and his mother Cara. The novel starts strongly with these two, especially in illuminating Adam’s thought processes, and in des...
I have one battered cardboard box containing the handmade presents I’ve received over the years: a paper towel roll kaleidoscope, a collage of shirtless men that Wanda made to cheer us up when we hadn’t seen a real one in a while. I have these things but no purse, no wallet, no money, no ID excep...
If it was a disaster, I don’t want to force him to talk about it. If it was great, I assume he would have called me early to go over the details, but then I remember we’re in new territory. He’s never been on a date before so I really don’t know what he would do. I don’t know if he’ll become one ...