experience. Note: talks about sex, alcohol and peer relationships
DANCING DAISIES is geared for high school students. Au- thor is Sarah Pyszka. It is about a teenage girl who uses a com- munication device and she wants to go to a regular summer camp. She broke it off with two friends who betrayed her. She was so sad. Even though she was hurting she decided to go ahead with her camp plans. At camp she met new friends and a boy. They changed her summer. She gets in trouble at camp, will she get sent home? STUCK IN NEUTRAL is geared for mature readers and is not for everyone. Author is Terry Truman. Note: if you have a stu- dent who has a sibling who has CP/severe disabilities, let par- ents know they are reading this. Emotionally charged, question the value of life. The dad, an author, deals with his emotions, grief by writing poetry about his son who is disabled. He does not know his son is cognitively bright, a secret genius who re- members everything he ever hears. Dad cannot cope, he ref- erences his “vegetable son” in his Pulitzer prize winning poem. His son thinks his dad is trying to kill him because of the poetry he writes. The book tells the story of them trying to understand each other. I thought about leaving this book out but I think people need to understand that the thoughts talked about in the book are still being talked about today on the internet, tv shows and in the news. We need to tell people not to judge people based on their ability to communicate.
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