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\n\t\t\t\tBUY ON BOOKSHOP<\/span>\n\t\t\t\tBOOKSHOP<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t& support independent bookstores\n\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/article> \n\n\t<\/center><\/div>One of my favorite kinds of books is action adventure\/fantasy. The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic<\/i> by Jennifer Trafton captured me as a reader. The main character, Persimmony, might seem like a normal kid to most people, but because I have a disability I get the vibe that she\u2019s ADD.\u00a0 Mostly it\u2019s the way she talks and thinks. It\u2019s all over the place. Much like me!<\/p>\n\u201cPersimmony angrily kicked a stone (which, unfortunately for her toe, remained in place). \u2018It\u2019s all Prunella\u2019s fault!\u2019 she cried. \u2018If she hadn\u2019t pestered me about sweeping the floor right in the middle of my glorious dream about rescuing a baby from the teeth of a murderous alligator, I would have never have thrown the broom across the room. Then the broom would never have hit the Giving Pot, and I wouldn\u2019t be here trudging through the Willow Woods in the middle of the night to fetch a new pot from Theodore. And with a storm coming, too!\u2019\u201d <\/i><\/p>\n
Yeah, my brain kind of works just like that.<\/p>\n
Ever seen the tee-shirt, \u201cI\u2019m not ADD, it\u2019s just\u2026.hey! Did you see that rabbit?\u201d Yup. That\u2019s me.<\/p>\n
Then there are paranormal stories.\u00a0 School of Fear<\/i> by Gitty Daneshvari has four kids with phobias. I have a fear of circuses. And screaming.\u00a0 There\u2019s also May Bird<\/i> by Jodi Lynn Anderson. The main character sees ghosts. If I saw a ghost, I\u2019d scream and then my phobia would kick into high gear! Ghosts don\u2019t like salt and quartz.\u00a0 Or spit. So I\u2019d make sure I stockpiled that. *Patooey!*<\/p>\n
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<\/a>\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\tBUY ON BOOKSHOP<\/span>\n\t\t\t\tBOOKSHOP<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t& support independent bookstores\n\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/article> \n\n\t<\/center><\/div>There\u2019s contemporary fiction like Waiting for Normal<\/i> by Leslie Connor, Things Not Seen<\/i> by Avi, Chasing Redbird<\/i> by Sharon Creech, and Larger Than Life Lara<\/i> by Dandi Mackall. These characters all have different disabilities. Not all disabilities have to have the same struggles. In Waiting for Normal<\/i>, Addie is a dyslexic flute player. Bobby, in Things Not Seen,<\/i> is invisible and is best friends with a blind girl. Zinny, in Chasing Redbird<\/i>, suffers from depression when her favorite aunt dies. Zinny is also socially awkward and doesn\u2019t like to talk, which makes me wonder if she might have something like Aspergers or ASD. But the best one of all is Larger Than Life Lara <\/i>who is faced with obesity. Despite her body image, she\u2019s a positive upbeat girl.<\/p>\nEveryone with disabilities handles their situation differently. I used to go to public school but advocated (more like begged) to be homeschooled. School was distracting, boring and disorganized (all those kids taping pencils, making noises and hours of homework made my brain feel like it would explode! Or be eaten by a zombie.). So I started homeschool last year in 7th<\/sup> grade. I went to a co-op and took high school classes and got all A\u2019s (whereas in middle school I mostly got C\u2019s, D\u2019s and F\u2019s.)<\/p>\n Homeschooling has been a great experience for me to learn the way I need to in order to succeed. \u00a0So, you can imagine how excited I was to read stories with characters who were homeschooled.\u00a0 Stargirl<\/i> by Jerry Spinelli features a girl who is very different from her peers. While she does attend public school, she was previously homeschooled. This Journal Belongs to Ratchet<\/i> by Nancy J. Cavanaugh has a main character (Ratchet) who is homeschooled. In my best opinion it wasn\u2019t a great example of homeschooling, but maybe it is for other kids. In the book, Ida B<\/i> by Katherine Hannigan, Ida was snippish when she went to public school and seemed much happier as a homeschooler. Although I\u2019ve never been snippy, I\u2019m definitely much more content to stay at home!\u00a0 People have many reasons for homeschooling, sometimes it\u2019s due to religious reasons and sometimes it\u2019s because kids learn better in another environment.<\/p>\n There\u2019s all sort of disabilities and many ways to handle them. I\u2019m glad to see there\u2019s a variety of books out there so readers can understand what it\u2019s like to have a disability. Or for people like me so we can have someone to relate to!<\/p>\n Thanks for inviting me to be part of this Disability in Kidlit event, Kody and Corinne!<\/p>\n My mom said I should mention these other great links: Ever seen the Allstate commercial?\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m a random windstorm. Shaky, shaky.\u201d Well, sometimes that\u2019s how life feels when you\u2019re a kid with disabilities.\u00a0 Because I\u2019m both very random and my life can be, well, pretty shaky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":"","kt_blocks_editor_width":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[58],"genre":[],"age_category":[6],"disability":[85,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityinkidlit.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityinkidlit.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityinkidlit.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityinkidlit.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityinkidlit.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityinkidlit.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7062,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityinkidlit.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/7062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityinkidlit.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityinkidlit.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityinkidlit.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityinkidlit.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityinkidlit.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"age_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityinkidlit.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age_category?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"disability","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityinkidlit.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disability?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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