![]() She loves living in Waxhaw, North Carolina, with her family but will always consider Ohio her home. She holds a master's degree in reading education and is the author of a book of poetry, Sketches from a Spy Tree (Clarion). ![]() She taught high school students with autism and middle school children with developmental and learning disabilities. About the Author TRACIE VAUGHN ZIMMER's first teaching assignment was special education. Interlinked free verse poems tell the beautiful, heartfelt story of a girl, a family farm reduced to a garden, and a year of unforgettable growth. Before long, Josie finds herself reaching out for something she's never really known: a friend. Yet when a strange new boy-Jordan-moves into one of the houses nearby, he seems oblivious to all the things that make Josie different. Then there's her cerebral palsy: even if Josie wants to forget that she was born with a disability, her mom can't seem to let it go. She lives with her career-obsessed mom and opinionated Gran, but has never known her father. Her family's small farmhouse seems to shrink each time another mansion grows up behind it. Josie Wyatt knows what it means to be different. ![]()
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