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"They are NOT freaks," Esteban tells them. Esteban brings Petey chocolates and sadly loses his job after he tells a group of visitors not to talk about the young residents in their presence or call them freaks. The two bond and Petey learns to nod his head and respond to words. The angel is a young ward worker named Esteban who responds to Petey and knows this child is no idiot. Once admitted to the Infants' Ward where he resides for the first decade of his life, he meets an angel.
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Petey's life is marked by a series of shift changes. Once he is turned over to the state at age two, he never sees his family again. Trapped inside a body that he cannot control and a tongue that protrudes, Petey was committed to an insane asylum in Warm Springs Montana bearing the diagnosis of idiot. When Petey Corbin was born in 1920, very little was known about cerebral palsy. What an important story to share with kids, as they develop love and understanding for people who are different than them! And what a wonderful story for adults to remember what life is really about. But the tears you'll cry for Petey aren't all of sadness some are tears of happiness, of triumph.and there is also plenty of laughter in this story. Some of my "toughest" boys admitted to everyone that they cried while reading it, and challenged other boys to try it and see if they didn't cry. This became "the book to read" last year for my 7th and 8th graders (who saw me crying once when I was reading it, and of course were fascinated!), both for boys and girls. Petey's capacity for love will reach down and grab hold of you in a real way. Petey is the story of a baby, who becomes a boy, who becomes a man, with cerebral palsy. I get teary just thinking of this story.that is how real Mikaelsen made Petey to his readers.
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If there was one book I could recommend that everyone read, it would be Petey. I'm a young middle school teacher, and I read 100+ YA/children's chapter books every year, but I keep coming back to this one. Petey is one of the most touching stories I've ever read and one of my all-time favorite children's novels.