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Sumner, Jamie. ROLL WITH IT New York: Atheneum, 2019 IL 3-6 ISBN 9781534442559 2 booktalks |
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Booktalk #1 When baking enthusiast Ellie’s family moves to Oklahoma to help take care of her grandfather with Alzheimer’s disease, she is determined to win the annual pie contest. Life with cerebral palsy is difficult in a small town, but Ellie refuses to let anything stand in her way. (Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Awards, 2021) Booktalk #2 Ellie was born with cerebral palsy and lives life in a wheelchair - with limited mobility but unlimited dreams. Ellie is both optimistic and ambitious (she plans to become a famous baker/chef), but at the same time painfully aware of life's hardships. When she and her mother move to a trailer park in Oklahoma to help support her aging grandparents, Ellie - with new friends tell-it-like-it-is Coralee, who wants to be a singer, and geeky Bert learns that a family of choice can make up for some of the absences that she's felt in the past. A rare book about disability that is warm but not treacly sweet. (Vermont Middle Grade Book Award, 2021) |
| SUBJECTS: Family life -- Oklahoma -- Fiction. Cerebral palsy -- Fiction. People with disabilities -- Fiction. Alzheimer's disease -- Fiction. Moving, Household -- Fiction. Oklahoma -- Fiction. |
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