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Book:
SAHARA Special
Pages: 175
Author:
Esme Raji Codell
Summary:
Sahara is a young girl, in fifth grade that has lost her
father (got a divorce with her mom) who is special Ed. Now, Sahara is not
special Ed in the way that she cant talk, or cant move, she is Special in the
way that she always sends letters to her dad saying “Dad, are you coming home?”
or, “Dad, you can come home now.” or even, “Dad, I’m waiting for you.” Every
day she writes at least 5 short letters to her father and she would stick them
into her desk every day. Sahara has her own “counselor” that goes with her to every
class because she needs help. Sahara would call her mentor “Peaches” even
though that wasn’t her real name, she called her that to herself because she
never really got her name. Every class that she would go to, Peaches would take
her in the hallway and talk to her and play a board game with her. Kids would
walk down the hallway and not notice her, and then after 3 steps later they
would turn and look at her like she was one of those “street people” as Sahara described
them.
One day Sahara came to school and looked in her desk and
all of her letters that she “SENT” to her father went all over the floor were everyone
could see them. Her teacher sent them and her to the councilors office. The
counselor immediately called her mother and as soon as her mother got there,
she read the notes. Sahara described her moms face as very blank and pale like
it was something about death. But as soon as she read the first five, she knew
what the rest were going to be about. Her mother told her that she was going
all special Ed on her and she asked her if she could just not have her talk
about her divorce and all of the other stuff that goes on during the
separation of her and her father.
hehe that sounds really cool. Many kids have their parents divorced, i have as well, but I really like the way you had this as a summary!
ReplyDeleteThanks youz alex :) :D i hope you liked it because i had a fun time writing up the post, and seeing other peoples oppinions :) thank you :)
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