Books with author 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.

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.

In this beautiful and chilling memoir, twenty-four-year-old Samantha Abeel describes living with dyscalculia, a math-related learning disability.Samantha Abeel tells her own story of living with and overcoming dyscalculia. She describes in painstaking detail how her life was affected by her learning disability before and after she was diagnosed, and the way her peers, her family, and her teachers treated her.In seventh grade, Samantha suffered anxiety attacks as she struggled to keep up in her classes, to remember two locker combinations, and to deal with new teachers. Samantha was eventually placed in Special Education classes in eighth grade, but she continued to feel anxious about her future.

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. 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. In her 13th winter, she found the courage to confront her problems, and was diagnosed with a learning disability.

Death is a concept conceived. Unreal.How would you live if you had no knowledge you would one day die?You could live on a high of no fear.You could die never living.Mirwood has the answer.Welcome to Mirwood, a secluded town in a time unknown, where there is no such thing as death. Citizens die, as everyone does, but no one is aware of the obvious. Death is no more than a unimaginable concept.Mathieu Mirwood is a young man who never questioned why his last name is the same as the town he lives in. He never questioned why tall creatures in midnight robes stand protecting the town. Mat never even questioned a forest he could never entre or the idea perhaps people remained outside of the town. Not until his best friend, Alyse Ahearn, started wondering about their way of life. After years of living with the idea of her fathers banishment, her own curiosity sparked Mat to question the only life he has ever known. Together they listen to another who claims to know the secrets of Mathieu’s last name and his ancestral ties to the town. Through books, friends, and an unwilling librarian they discover the meaning of death as more than a lie, and struggle to change the only life they have ever known.If only they don’t die in the process, if there is such a thing as death.