![]() Ellie (aka Lily) Cowan is a 12-year-old girl who is a self-made expert on cooking, baking and everything in the kitchen. It’s refreshing to have a disabled girl be the star of the show in a middle-grade novel. When you specify that to “protagonists”, the list grows even shorter. Thus, this book directly goes against the disability community’s cry, Nothing About Us Without Us. Moreover, the author wrote in horrifying slurs and tropes about disability that one wonders whether any disabled person was included in the process of writing. However, what struck me most was how Sumner startlingly uses her identity as a nondisabled parent as a licence to justify her portrayal of disability. It certainly creates a unique and creative plot with an entertaining voice. I'm Queer.What happens when you cross Masterchef Junior with a tale about a kid moving to a new town? Jamie Sumner creates Roll With It with this premise in mind. RT rajanilarocca: Over the moon that RED, WHITE, AND WHOLE has won a Newbery Honor!! I'm so grateful to the Newbery Committee and ALALibr… 6 months agoįollow Follow Waking Brain Cells on Follow Waking Brain Cells via EmailĮnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.Īrchives Archives Categories Categories Tags adventures African-Americans American history animals art artists bears bedtime biographies birds bullying cats community creativity death diversity dogs emotions fairy tales families fantasy fathers food friendship friendships grandparents grief historical fiction history humor imagination LGBTQ magic mothers music mysteries nature pets poetry rabbits racism romance school science science fiction seasons self esteem siblings toddlers trees Blogroll RT KyleLukoff: Now that I have calmed down slightly, please enjoy this text from my brilliant and poised agent agentsaba, who was so exci… 6 months ago RT FReadomFighters: □ Reminder - School librarians are the ones who delivered books curbside, who celebrate your child reading their first… 5 months ago RT Kaetrena: Here is the link to the webinar on library worker trauma: /watch?v=d-jO7l… you can follow links to some qual and quan… 5 months ago That’s why 26 national organizations have joi… 2 months ago RT UABookBans: Individuals should be trusted to make their own decisions about what to read. « Sep Nov » Search Waking Brain Cells Search for: Twitter – Follow me at tashrow Reviewed from copy provided by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. Each one is a distinct character, and that includes her grandfather who may have dementia and still is more than his limitations as well.īravo! This is a great read that reaches beyond limitations to show the human heart of its characters. From Ellie’s mother to her grandparents to the children she befriends. While Ellie herself a particularly great protagonist, the secondary characters also shine. Sumner never allows those barriers to be turned into personal responsibility for Ellie, assigning them firmly to society. The book also does a great job of showing children who don’t use a wheelchair the many barriers that those in wheelchairs face on a daily basis. It’s her voice that makes the book a compelling read, whether she is writing fan letters to chefs or speaking out about her own needs. ![]() I love the immediate shattering of stereotypes in this book as Ellie has a strong voice of her own that has a little more spice than sugar in it. Steadily, Ellie begins to make her first-ever friends but when a health crisis arises it may mean leaving this town where she finally feels she belongs. Ellie’s mother has to drive her to school and takes two other kids from the trailer park along. Ellie has to start a new school in January, though she really doesn’t have any friends to miss. When Ellie’s grandfather manages to drive his truck into the front of his local grocery store, Ellie and her mother move across the country to live with her grandparents in their trailer. ![]() She plans one day to be a professional baker. Where Ellie’s sweetness does come in is her baking. No, she has plenty of opinions and shares them too. Roll with It by Jamie Sumner (9781534442559)Įllie isn’t the sweet little girl everyone thinks she is simply because she’s in a wheelchair.
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