“Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.” This is an important statement to Melody Brooks, a ten year old who hasn’t said a single word in her life, but she has a lot of meaningful thoughts. This book, Out Of My Mind by Sharon Draper would be good for anyone, ages 9 and up, and also enjoyable for adults. The story has a lot of imagery and personality that you won’t want to put it down until you finish reading it. It brings you back into childhood and deciphers the true meaning of it through someone else’s shoes. Melody Brooks is a girl who is handicapped and cannot was or talk, but she is very smart and diligent. Throughout this book, she gets other people to realize how smart she is, she becomes able to “speak”, and she even