Covers the date rape and resulting ostrasizing of a teenage girl new to high school and just trying to fit in.
Glimpse into the summer of a fourteen year old's life in NC in 1964. Touches on life in the south, treatment of blacks, loss of a mother, and abuse.
Amazing portrayal by Dr. Sacks, a neurologist and writer, of patients suffering from various mental problems due to injury or stroke, etc and the resulting aphasias and how they manifest.
Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children (Library of Contemporary Thought) by Jonathan Kellerman
Non-fiction portrayal into the minds of the very young with mental illness. The possibility of identifying psychopathic and sociopathic children as young as three.
Amazingly well written book by Oliver Sacks, author and neurologist about his journey to the island of Pingelap where the majority of the residents are color blind through intermarriages over the centuries. He has an amazing ability to describe what people perceive and to express it eloquently in words.