In the late 1960’s, before much was understood about emotional and physical handicaps and the difference they have to developmental handicaps our main character Lynnie was committed to a School for the Incurable and Feebleminded. It was not much of a school! Horrible things happened there but some...
It's the basic story: boy gets girl, boy loses girl & boy gets girl. So, even though it has the inevitable ending we still feel mesmerize by the ride toward it & the ending itself.I was really excited to read this book, maybe a little too much, I was slightly disappointed at first, but it slowly cam...
This will make a great book group selection. I tore through it, but the issues it brought to mind stuck with me after I put it down. I wanted to pass it on right away so I could discuss it with someone.
What a great bus ride! Did Beth ever turn the tables on Rachel! Rachel agrees to meet up with Beth every month and ride the buses with her, something Beth loves to do. Beth is mentally disabled and Rachel feels she will be helping her sister. And she does, in a way. But, more, Rachel learns from Bet...
The Story of Beautiful Girl was a book I had been looking forward to for quite awhile. The story takes place in 1968 a time when people with disabilities were shut away in institutions forgotten by their families and the world.On a stormy night in a small town in America a couple desperate and soake...
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