Felicity's review of Reaching for Sun
Reaching for Sun by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer (Goodreads author!)
Usually, I don’t like verse at all. I haven’t read a book in verse since my “conversion” into liking poetry this summer. I got Reaching for Sun without knowing it is written in verse, and surprised myself by liking the first poem. I figured that if I liked the first poem, I might like the second. If I liked the second, I might like the third, etc. until I had read the entire book.
Josie suffers from cerebral palsy, and everything not thought about by people without cerebral palsy is painful. She struggles to walk normal, talk normal, just look normal. She loves the escape from school at three each day, where she can run home to her grandmother, and frolic on her family’s dwindling farmland. Sometimes the taunts that Josie is mentally challenged get to her, even though she is really bright and even witty at times.
Life as Josie knew it comes to a complete halt when she meets Jordan, who unlike any other, sees behind her mangled hand and slow speech. Jordan becomes part o...more
Josie suffers from cerebral palsy, and everything not thought about by people without cerebral palsy is painful. She struggles to walk normal, talk normal, just look normal. She loves the escape from school at three each day, where she can run home to her grandmother, and frolic on her family’s dwindling farmland. Sometimes the taunts that Josie is mentally challenged get to her, even though she is really bright and even witty at times.
Life as Josie knew it comes to a complete halt when she meets Jordan, who unlike any other, sees behind her mangled hand and slow speech. Jordan becomes part o...more
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