A Memoir by Samantha Abeel
In this beautiful and chilling memoir, twenty-five-year-old Samantha Abeel describes her struggles with a math-related learning disability, and how it forced her to find inner strength and courage.Samantha Abeel couldn't tell time, remember her locker combination, or count out change at a checkout counter -- and she was in seventh grade. For a straight-A student like Samantha, problems like these made no sense. She dreaded school, and began having anxiety attacks. In her thirteenth winter, she found the courage to confront her problems -- and was diagnosed with a learning disability. Slowly, Samantha's life began to change again. She discovered that she was stronger than she'd ever thought possible -- and that sometimes, when things look bleakest, hope is closer than you think.Samantha Abeel was a talented student who excelled in the arts of language, but she struggled with seemingly basic math issues. Samantha found respite from the endless arithmetic, measuring, and algebra studies in her seventh-grade creative writing class. Samantha began the project that would become her first book, Reach for the Moon, when her parents solicited the help of an English teacher to help Samantha focus on her strengths by producing writing tasks to be reviewed.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780439339056 |
| ISBN 10 | 0439339057 |
| Title | A Memoir |
| Author | Samantha Abeel |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Scholastic US |
| Year published | 2005-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Prizes | Winner of Schneider Family Book Award (Teen) 2005 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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