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Melody is not like most people. She doesn't talk or walk, and many consider her "retarded." But she has an extraordinary memory: she remembers everything that has ever happened to her. Melody is smarter than the adults who are trying to diagnose her, and smarter than her classmates in the integration class, she sees, feels and hears what others do not notice. She enjoys life, but just imagine how hard it is for her, and how sad and unbearable it can be. Melody wants to be treated as a person, not a diagnosis - a child with cerebral palsy. And she intends to prove to everyone that she is also worth something.. The book about Melody surprisingly evokes not pity for the main character, but respect. Written in the first person, it evokes not the usual embarrassment that we are used to experiencing when meeting disabled people (embarrassment and awkwardness because everything is fine with us, but we, they say, cannot help them), but admiration for her inner strength, depth of her mind and awkwardness from what essentially small problems we are busy solving most of the time, how little we notice and poorly understand other people. .Sharon Draper is an American writer, multiple Coretta Scott King Award winner, school teacher and mother of a “special” child. . .