Holding Up the Earth

Dianne E. Gray



Hope's mother died in a tragic car accident eight years ago. By fourteen, she has gone to seven different foster homes. She now arrives at Anna and Sarah's caring hands. She discovers Anna and Sarah's ancestors who have also settled on this land before. Reading their diaries and letters, Hope soon learns to accept her new life and settles.

Rating:4/5

My Left Foot
by Christy Brown

Christy Brown's autobiography My Left Foot, tells us about his condition of cerebral palsy. This condition is a muscle disorder. When he was young, he could not control his speech or movement, other than his left foot. He taught his left foot to paint, write and type.
Born in 1932, Chirsty Brown was one of the 22 children of a Dulin bricklayer. He played with his brothers like any other child, but at the age of ten, he noticed he was crippled. He hid away from everyone in his room and painted his feelings with a box of watercolour paints he traded for soldiers at Christmas. He then fell in love with a neighbourhood girl. There you should read on!
This book is written so well you will feel sympathetic for Christy because it's like you him so well!!

Rating: 3.5/5