Maneshitsugumi

Taking flight, and letting go. Dropping and falling, thinking you could fly, but you could not. You weep, wondering when your Mama will come home to see that you are not in the nest anymore, hoping that she will come and get you from down below. She arrives, looks down, and makes a sound. You knew that was a laugh if she was human. Now you are all alone in that dark world. You haven’t been taught everything just yet, but you figure you’ll have to learn the rest by yourself.
Now it’s time you go explore. Finding food is tough. Something is stirring in the bushes north of where you are looking. It freaks you out, and a dark figure jumps. It goes all too fast and that was the end. You are no longer alive. You have been sent to heaven, but you are no longer walking on earth. Either your Mama should’ve taken care of you, or you should have listened. You were just a mockingbird.

That is somethign from my book I'm writing.

Coolio, bye.

-Aya

Disability Books

My fave books about people with disabilities:




After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick

Jeffrey isn't a little boy with cancer anymore. He's a teen who's in remission, but life still feels fragile. The aftereffects of treatment have left Jeffrey with an inability to be a great student or to walk without limping. His parents still worry about him. His older brother, Steven, lost it and took off to Africa to be in a drumming circle and "find himself." Jeffrey has a little soul searching to do, too, which begins with his escalating anger at Steven, an old friend who is keeping something secret, and a girl who is way out of his league but who thinks he's cute.

Barnes and Noble:

$12.23




Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper

Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school—but no one knows it. Most people—her teachers and doctors included—don't think she's capable of learning, and up until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-level alphabet lessons again and again and again. If only she could speak up, if only she could tell people what she thinks and knows . . . but she can't, because Melody can't talk. She can't walk. She can't write.
Being stuck inside her head is making Melody go out of her mind—that is, until she discovers something that will allow her to speak for the first time ever. At last Melody has a voice . . . but not everyone around her is ready to hear it.
From multiple Coretta Scott King Award winner Sharon M. Draper comes a story full of heartache and hope. Get ready to meet a girl whose voice you'll never, ever forget.

Barnes and Noble:

$12.23



Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine!

MOCKINGBIRD
In Caitlin’s world, everything is black or white. (highlight to see!) Things are good or bad. Anything in between is confusing. That’s the stuff Caitlin’s older brother, Devon, has always explained. But now Devon’s dead, and her father cries a lot. Caitlin wants to get over it, but as an eleven-year-old girl with Asperger’s, she doesn’t know how. When she reads the definition of “closure” in the dictionary, she realizes that is what she and her father need. In her search for Closure, Caitlin discovers that not everything is black and white--the world is full of colors--messy and beautiful, and it is through this discovery that she embarks on a road which leads her to find both healing and Closure.

I really think you should read it!!! :)

It's $15.99 USA/$20.99 Canada for Hardcover

$6.99/$10.99 for paperback (: at Anderson's Bookshop :)


-Aya

Firefly to ki/ B wa aida o yomu

People, I convinced Firefly that talking to trees is possible. Today, she said she heard a female voice calling to her, so she thought it was her mom. Her mom said it wasn't her, so Hotaru was kinda freaked, finally she realized the trees were calling to her. :)

My trees all have names, but some don't have names yet because I'm waiting to name those when I'm older. Currently I have, Ivy, Fawn, Beatrice, Clyde, Henry, Green Day, Molly, Teddy, Clara, Tim, Willow, Mabel, Clarice, Blue, Rosemary, Pastel, Deliah, Tessie, Wilfre, and Hazel. Molly and Teddy are brother and sister, and who knew, they're both pests! Clyde is the scrawny one who has -1 leaves on him, Ivy is our tree house, Hazel holds our birdhouse, Blue is the oldest, and my Dad says he's dying, but I think he's just older than old.

Green Day was my sister's favorite band when I named him, I like Owl City, but I don't think I will ever name a tree that, maybe Midnight or something. Our neighbors have a really pretty tree that I want to name really badly, but it's on their property, so it's not mine.

I really liked the book Ida B because it reminds me of myself. I talk to trees, I daydream a lot, I basically have a really similar personality as her. I started talking to trees before i read the book, and I was really amazed on how Ida B talks to trees too! I really think they should make a movie out of that book, because i would go see it. At first I read the book just for a report, and I didn't like it very much at first, and then as I read on it got way better. (P.S. Ida B has a dog, Rufus and a cat, Lulu!!!)

READ IDA B!!!!

-Aya