This novel in verse deals with a girl who has cerebral palsy. At the start, she doesn't have many friends from school because she is mocked for having a disability, but soon a boy moves in nearby who turns out to be a great friend. The girl, Josie, has always accepted the way she is, even if she didn't like it, but her mother always pushed different therapies on her. It takes awhile, but Josie gets her mom to see that she is unhappy with the way things are.
I liked that this book made clear how any little difference people see in someone causes them to lable the person retarded. Cerebral palsy causes physical damage rather than neurological damage. Reading this story made me look up what cerebral palsy was.
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