Amazingly, a spot opens up, and camp is dues to start in a few days' time. The camp is called Camp Green Gables, and her parents help her apply. 'Yes, yes yes!' she types on her Medi-Talker. But when she finds out about a camp where kids like her - kids with a diverse set of unique needs - are able to spend a week in a camp setting, she decides immediately that she's going to go. Because she has cerebral palsy, uses a wheelchair and a device that helps her speak when she types in phrases and words, she realizes her choices are limited by her unique needs. In OUT OF MY HEART, Melody Brooks, a 12-year-old living in Ohio, is trying to look forward to something to do over summer break. Melody's world in this book is a diverse one, where people of different races, ethnicities, abilities, and backgrounds come together to help one another. There's some hand holding and innocent flirting.

A girl who has an intense fear of snakes has a strong reaction to seeing one, which Melody describes as being worse than the screams of someone in a horror movie. There are some references to things that smell worse than day-old poop, and worries about farting at night. Other diagnoses like spina bifida and autism are explained by the kids who live with them.

Her experience as someone who can't talk or walk is explored and validated in this book. Thanks to the help of her speech generating device, which she's named Elvira, she's able to eloquently express herself most of the time. This uplifting book follows the summer adventures of a girl with Cerebral Palsy whose mind outpaces most peoples' in the room. Parents need to know that Out of My Heart is the sequel to Out of My Mind, by Coretta Scott King award winner Sharon M. King, Herbie Hancock, Energizer Bunny, The King and I, Little Mix, Jewel, James Bond, Frozen. Dubble Bubble gum, iPad, Godzilla, Atta (book by Francis Bellamy), Better Business Bureau, Lincoln Logs, Bob Marley, Olympics, Barbie, Doc Martens, Crayola, Seventeen magazine, Skittles, Butterfingers, Takis, Harley Davidson, Timberlands, YouTube, Play-Doh, Black Eyed Peas, Target, Titanic, BMX, National Geographic, WNBA, Hershey's, Beyonce, Chariots of Fire, NFL, McDonalds, Mozart, Beethoven, Miley Cyrus, B.B. Melody prefers specific brands, especially when she insists upon Nikes over Adidas, and only Nikes.

Out of my heart sharon m draper