Cammie mcgovern eye contact download

We also visit Cara as a younger girl who had two good friends, Suzette and Kevin. Each one of them with psychological and health issues. The plot is outstanding and the characters are so well developed you feel a closeness to them. I highly recommend this book for everyone, especially to those interested in the autism spectrum, as parents, relatives, friends, teachers and for anyone in the community to gain more awareness of this epidemic in today's world.

Sep 26, Lindsey rated it it was ok. There was a lot going on in this book. It started out promising. I really liked the insight into families with special needs--there is an array of them in this book. But by the end there were just too many characters and twists and turns and it felt sloppy. Jul 31, Aleathia Drehmer rated it liked it Recommends it for: people with special needs children. The only thing I knew about this book was that it was a pyschological thriller. I liked the cover of the book as it was a blurry and eerie picture of a girl standing in the woods.

This quick reading novel seems to be about a young girl, new to town, that gets murdered in the woods near her elementary school. This could be any parents nightmare and I must confess, it has altered my own sleeping patterns and made me stand guard a b This afternoon I finished reading "Eye Contact" by Cammie McGovern.

This could be any parents nightmare and I must confess, it has altered my own sleeping patterns and made me stand guard a bit more vigilantly with my own child than I am used to. This folks, is the sign of a good book. When a book somehow takes over your subconscious enough to alter the way you live your life, the writer has done something right.

It was not an overly scary book in the sense that it contained gore, but what made it interesting was the several points of view from which it was told. It was told from the view of a single mother whose entire life is caring for her autistic son Adam. It is told from the point of view of a middle school child struggling to be invisible and visible at the same time.

It is told from the point of view of the autistic child. The common thread throughout this book is the need for friendship or for rekindling lost bonds. It is also about letting people have the freedom to map their own world out and how by making things easy for someone only allows them to never make the effort for themselves. It is about will and strength of character in the face of something tragic. And in some ways, it is about hope.

The author has an autistic child, so the description of mannerisms and how strange a life a child like this has, were very accurate. I think it was interesting to be able to see into this world a bit more deeply. The brain of an autistic is a complex rewiring that many of us will never understand.

They have super gifts in some areas, but often never take pleasure in the simple things our life has to offer like friendship, physical closeness, or being able to follow the abstract. We take these things for granted, I believe. This book was what I would call an "easy read" in the sense that I did not feel like I would have a mental meltdown after it was done.

It isn't hard hitting in a cerebral sense, but a good pages of brain candy to curl up with on a string of rainy days Nov 16, Laya Mccoy rated it it was amazing. I totally love this book. It's one of my favorite recent reads. I loved how the author, Cammie McGovern, sort of went deeper into the mind of autistic children.

She showed that most of the time, they do know what they see, but they can't find the words to describe it, or they don't know the words to decribe it. I really liked the relationship between Cara and Adam. You can tell how much she loved her son and how determined she was to making sure that she could teach him, and she was so happy w I totally love this book.

You can tell how much she loved her son and how determined she was to making sure that she could teach him, and she was so happy when she found that he might make friends and have someone to play with. It really is a good read, and anyone that is into the sort of killer mystery books should really look this one up. Yes, I know, it's not really a mystery, but it is in its own way, because here these people are, trying to solve a murder when they have only one witness who doesn't even really know what's going on.

I thought it was just amazing, how Adams mind and his understanding start to unfold throughout the book, and this really is one of my all time favorite books.

Keep on writing, Cammie!! Jul 20, Kristen rated it it was amazing Shelves: , 5-star-books , fave-books-ever. This was one of the best books I have read this year! I literally could not put it down! Well, really, I put it down twice because, much to my chagrin, I had to go to bed.

Aside from that, it never left my hands! This story This was one of the best books I have read this year! This story focused a lot on the struggles the parents of autistic children face, which was very insightful for me since I had very little knowledge of this subject. Must read! Jun 11, Karol rated it really liked it. This book is amazing! Great insights on every page, but it's a bit difficult to read because it involves IEP's and teacher documentation that I am trying to escape on this, my summer break!

The author messed up a bit with introducing too many characters, and if Hedder hadn't made a sticky note cheat sheet in the front cover, I'd be lost. Dec 20, Jane Shayer rated it it was amazing Shelves: mystery. I was completely engrossed in this story and made me look forward to every opportunity I had to read! There were a lot of characters to keep track of but all were integral to the story. Highly recommend! Sep 13, Jeff Fernandes rated it liked it. Very intriguing story, however the author's style can be quite exhausting.

Very long chapters and a lot of jumping around between characters and thoughts that I found myself having to reread some parts to make sure I was still following along. Jun 19, Brandy Franklin rated it liked it Shelves: physically-owned-tbr.

Apr 27, Angelina Christine rated it really liked it. This book was a pleasant surprise. It was easy to fly through and kept me guessing the entire time. Shelves: read-but-unowned , contemporary-mystery , , , paperback-swap , hardcover. The students of Woodside Elementary School often spend their recesses playing games as children will do.

As the innocent youngsters spend their time waging mock battles on the playground, they are blissfully unaware that soon the real world will intrude into their sheltered world and shatter their childhood happiness forever. And the consequences of such a vicious crime will shake this tiny, close knit community to its very core.

During one particular recess, a little girl and boy - two students The students of Woodside Elementary School often spend their recesses playing games as children will do. During one particular recess, a little girl and boy - two students - seem to vanish without a trace. Upon further investigation, it soon comes to light that both children were last seen heading across the soccer field toward the woods behind the school.

They were last seen together, but witnesses claim not to know what could have happened to them. Hours pass before only one of them, a nine-year-old autistic boy named Adam, is found alive. Discovered several yards away from the little girl's body, hiding in the sheltering undergrowth, Adam is apparently the sole witness to an incomprehensible killing. Barely verbal on the best of days, Adam has since retreated into his own silent world, unable to tell anyone else what he witnessed.

Adam's mother Cara has an intimate knowledge of her son's mannerisms and attitude, and she knows of Adam's secret, silent, insulated world only too well.

With her community still reeling from the shock and her son unable to help the police in their investigation, it falls to Cara to become Adam's voice as she tries to decode the puzzling events. Yet in her desperate desire to protect her son from the various cruelties of life - both inadvertent and deliberate - has Cara somehow made his world a much more dangerous place?

When another child suddenly goes missing, Adam's mother redoubles her efforts to interpret the potential clues. Cara realizes that only she can unlock her son's silence to provide the police with the clues that they need to catch a killer. She knows that when she is finally able to interpret the changes in Adam's behavior, she will not only understand how to better help him deal with the trauma of having witnessed his best friend's murder, she will also have helped the police to solve an horrendous crime.

I will definitely recommend this book to fiction, mystery lovers. Your Rating:. Your Comment:. Read Online Download. His skull has been touched, by many hands probably. Her heart sped up and she feared some kind of internal combustion, death from embarrassment, a heart attack of stupidity. Later Miss Lattimore told Cara she did a fine job but she was going to assign a boy from now on.

It'll be easier this way, less embarrassing to him if he has to ask. Miss Lattimore loved him, too, and thought about him at night, far more than she should. Perhaps they both hoped for similar things: to erase injury with ministrations, to find a hole, a vacuum to pour their liquid love into, or maybe it was slightly darker, what Suzette had implied in her annoyance at Cara's refusal to eat lunch with her all week. Suzette had been her best friend for three years now.

They'd suffered through seven months of Girl Scouts, had jointly quit when denied their artistic creativity badges because the Shrinky Dinks stained-glass project Suzette dreamed up, incorporating bird feathers and aluminum foil pieces, fit no definition of art the leader had read. They had learned to ride bikes together, to swim, to make God's eye yarn stars they hung above their beds. Suzette knew everything about Cara, and had spoken a certain degree of the truth: Cara did want to be noticed.

Against the hard, plain truth of all Kevin's needs, she saw herself for the first time during those lunches, heard her own voice, felt herself become the person she might one day turn into. Years down the line, Cara would come to realize she wasn't wrong about Miss Lattimore, either. Come, sit beside me. Let me fill it. Now, at age thirty, Cara sits in the office of her old elementary school, waiting for Margot Tesler, the principal, to return and tell her what's going on with her son, who has been missing long enough for her to be called down here.

Most of the time Cara forgets she went to this school some twenty years ago, that if walls could talk, these corridors could speak to a long history of her failures and successes. It only occurs to her in odd moments: kneeling beside a coat cubby as Adam negotiates his way out of snow pants, she'll see a heating vent and remember her and Suzette, bored, decorating the slats in tiny ballpoint-pen Hello s, and she'll lean over to see if coats of beige paint might not have erased evidence of her old, now dead friendship.

Though Cara never came to the principal's office as a child, she knows this office well now, with its wall-to-wall bookshelves and conference table big enough to accommodate Adam's yearly education plan review, which sometimes involves eight people hammering out goals, benchmarks, the accommodations necessary as the curriculum grows more demanding with each year. Strangely, Cara has happy associations with being in this room.

She isn't friends with any of these people, but she also isn't adversarial, as she suspects some parents of special-needs kids are, with a bottomless list of requests and demands. So far, Cara would argue, her approach has worked. He'll turn up in a minute. We do not guarantee that these techniques will work for you.

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