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epub | 7.46 MB | English | Isbn: 9781770705791 | Author: Gina McMurchy-Barber | Year: 2024
About ebook : Free as a Bird
Born with Down syndrome, Ruby Jean Sharp comes from a time when being a developmentally disabled person could mean growing up behind locked doors and barred windows and being called names like "retard" and "moron." When Ruby Jean's caregiver and loving grandmother dies, her mother takes her to Woodlands School in New Westminster, British Columbia, and rarely visits.
As Ruby Jean herself says: "Can't say why they called it a school -- a school's a place you go for learnin an then after you get to go home. I never learnt much bout ledders and numbers, an I sure never got to go home."
It's here in an institution that opened in 1878 and was originally called the Provincial Lunatic Asylum that Ruby Jean learns to survive isolation, boredom, and every kind of abuse. Just when she can hardly remember if she's ever been happy, she learns a lesson about patience and perseverance from an old crow.
Category: Teens & YA, Teen Fiction, Girls & Young Women - Teen Fiction, Choices & Transitions - Teen Fiction, Body, Mind & Health - Teen Fiction, Adventure & Survival - Teen Fiction, Girls in life->Teen fiction, Going through changes->Teen fiction, Mental health & mental illness->Teen fiction, Survival->Teen fiction
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