Full name: My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir

Author: Samantha Abeel Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Award winners Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780439339056 0439339057

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. Similar books: No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey The Stardust Lounge by Deborah Digges Half a Life by Darin Strauss Love Life by Rob Lowe Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot On Writing by Stephen King When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Born a Crime by Trevor Noah What Comes Next and How to Like It by Abigail Thomas This Lovely Life by Vicki Forman Educated by Tara Westover Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls The Story of My Life by Helen Keller Life in a Day by Doris Grumbach Happy, Happy, Happy by Phil Robertson Etched in Sand by Regina Calcaterra Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder Gifted Hands by Ben Carson