There is something for everyone in here: baking, therapy, mini golf, pageantry, fishing, and more. Ellie's voice is authentic and will provide a much needed window for middle grade kids to living with CP. This book reveals much about living with a disability without being just about that. With the help of her two new friends, Coralee and Bert (short for Robert), she will learn the joys of not being normal and discovering who she really is. Spunky Ellie may be down, but she is not out. Now she is the new kid in a wheelchair at a small middle school coming from the wrong side of town - the trailer park.
The two of them move to a trailer in Oklahoma to help Mema take care of grandpa after his dementia symptoms cause a couple of dangerous accidents. She is also confined to a wheelchair due to cerebral palsy and lives with her divorced mother.
Ellie is an aspiring baker and is inspired by Mary Berry, Julia Child and other baking greats. Now she just has to convince her mom that this town might just be the best thing that ever happened to them! It all feels like one challenge too many, until Ellie starts to make her first-ever friends. Except she’s not just the new kid-she’s the new kid in the wheelchair who lives in the trailer park on the wrong side of town. If she’s not writing fan letters to her favorite celebrity chefs, she’s practicing recipes on her well-meaning, if overworked, mother.īut when Ellie and her mom move so they can help take care of her ailing grandpa, Ellie has to start all over again in a new town at a new school.
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The thing is, Ellie has big dreams: She might be eating Stouffer’s for dinner, but one day she’s going to be a professional baker. That surprises some people, who see a kid in a wheelchair and think she’s going to be all sunshine and cuddles. The story of an irrepressible girl with cerebral palsy whose life takes an unexpected turn when she moves to a new town.Įllie’s a girl who tells it like it is.
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