Melody just wants to say all of the thing she has swimming around in her head like all the other people around her. After years of being so very different and alone, she is finally released from her own mind via new technology. But, just when she is finally being accepted for who she is, the harsh realities of the world knock her back down.
Draper, S. (2010). Out of my mind. New York, NY: Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
- Evaluation Criteria
- This novel meets the criteria for contemporary realistic fiction through the characters and plot. Melody is a non-traditional character who is not only female, but also has a disability. She is a female heroine and the underdog, both qualities that make the reader cheer her on through all of her struggles. As the reader travels through her trials and tribulations, the reader expects her rise to stardom and her new voice to take her to the top: the big quiz bowl. But, the realities of a society that doesn’t embrace different rears its ugly head, throwing the reader down a strange, new path. The plot also embraced the “hopeful, if not always happy” resolution of contemporary realistic fiction as Melody doesn’t get the result the reader hoped, but she does learn to live with what she has.
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