It’s not often these days that I read a book and sit with it afterwards wishing there was a way to force every person on the planet to read it, but Real is that book for me. We follow Charity Woods, a non-verbal teenager with Autism who struggles to get people to believe that she is intelligent and can hack it in a mainstream classroom. From the very first paragraph of the book, “My name is Charity. I am thirteen years old. Actually, thirteen years […]
Nothings Need to Be Heard
Real by Carol Cujec & Peyton Goddard