Books like This

 By Manny R.

The book I read is called Girls like Us, I'd say it's about 2 teenager's girls that are special needs, they go to same school, and are in the same special Ed program. They are in their last year of high school and they are graduating this year. After graduation they are moving to their own apartment together as roommates, to me this story is sad, humorous, and overall good.

This story has characters that can relate. Quincy has been pasted around from foster home to foster home. She's mixed race. She got a brick thrown at her head by her crackwhore mother's boyfriend that is abusive. She was taken from her mother. Quincy knows how to read and write and do the basic things normal people know how to do. Sadly her physical deformity she was left with is substantial.

Biddy, she white and blonde. She was deprived oxygen at birth and has problem with "conventional" learning. She was handed off to her grandmother by her real mother. Her mother really didn't want her, sadly her grandmother didn't want her either. She took her under her wing because she thought she was obligated to do the right thing giving that she is her own blood.

Mrs. Elizabeth, she was a bright, smart lady that takes the two girls and takes the two girls under her wing to care for them and help them succeed throughout life's adventures. She makes them relies and understand the true meaning of family. She teaches them to grow up and take on their own responsibilities, and face the future on their own.

Overall this book is a new take on teenage life. Makes us as a reader really understand the life of special needs kids and what they go through throughout their life at school and their life as adults taking on the world on their own. The girls face bullies, family leaving them, friends coming and going, rape, and their disability. I suggest this book to middle schools and above and I really like the format of the chapters and how short they are, and the point of view from each main character and their everyday life.