I recently finished reading this autobiography that my daughter read for school. Typically, when they have to pick a biography for school, my kids have picked someone famous like Clara Barton or Roald Dahl (he wrote Matilda and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory). But this needed to be at her reading level, so we found this one. It's called Heaven is Here by Stephanie Nielsen. She is an LDS mom who was in a plane crash and had around 80% of her body burned. It's a great story and makes you appreciate all the little things we take for granted. One part that illustrated that is when they sewed her eyes shut to help heal from a surgery on the skin in the eye area. Another part is when her children are afraid of her and the baby cries for his aunt instead of his mom. It's well-written and has lots of happy, hopeful moments too. I recommend it for middle-school to adult ages (especially girls).
You'll notice I am following her blog called "Nie Nie Dialogues" and you can check it out by clicking on the typewriter icon on the right side of this blog.
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