The Safe Place

by Tehila Peterseil

What is it like to be one of the thousands of children in school with learning disabilities?

Kinneret is a child who daily confronts the school system, desperately seeking to decipher the everyday lectures and classroom discussion which her brain interperets as incoherent commands and garbled verbiage.

Then, just as Kinneret is about to recede into a world of her own, someone enters her life and changes it...forever!

144 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1996

Reviews

[Oriyah N · Rating 3 out of 5]

I actually found this book to be tremendously triggering. Also, as a reader with "modern" eyes and reading through the lens of modern social standards, the use of the "R-word" and the way it was treated by adults in the book leaves something to be desired, and I think that requires discussion with any underage readers, but beyond that, this was an important text that raises both awareness and empathy of how badly things can go for a student with a learning disability and the importance of proper academic and emotional support.

[Perlie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read at the recommendation of two friends. Touching account of what it feels like to be a child with learning disabilities. Overall, worth the read.

[Natalie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was interesting…. The author made it really hard to read and was the opposite of a page turner. Now I know why it was in the withdrawn section of my library. 📚 3/5