And if you have a tender soul and open heart this story will touch you too. I would say that I have never judged someone on his or her appearance but I would be lying. This book makes me think about the hard ships of life and how people are not always loving. Who saved his life and became his new best friend. And along with a happier environment and better people was a boy. It was not until he was moved to Bozeman, Montana and into a nursing home was he getting the care and attention he needed. The place were he had been staying for 70 years had not been taking care of him the dieses he actually had, cerebral palsy, but for being retarded. Not knowing that what they thought was going to be a fresh start for him actually was not what he needed. Petey is dedicated to and based on the life of Clyde Cothern, a Montana man with cerebral palsy who was misdiagnosed as intellectually disabled and confined to Montana. Mikaelsen is the author of 10 novels for young adults and the winner of several awards for his work. They put him in the arms of a young nurse planning on taking him to his new home. Petey is middle grade novel written by Ben Mikaelsen and published in 1998. His parents tried to keep him and take care of him, until he was too much to handle and they had been neglecting their other child. His was diagnosed as an idiot when he was only an infant. Have you ever been judged? Discriminated against for something you can't control, even if you would die to control it? Have you had people leave you year after year? How would you feel if that was your life? That's what it was like for Petey Corbin.
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