Odd 03 - Brother Odd by Koontz Dean

Author:Koontz, Dean [Koontz, Dean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Read, DMF
ISBN: 9780345533029
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2006-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

ON THE WAY TO THE MOTHER SUPERIOR'S office, I passed the large recreation room, where a dozen nuns

were supervising the children at play.

Some of the kids have severe physical disabilities combined with mild mental retardation. They like board games,

card games, dolls, toy soldiers. They decorate cupcakes themselves and help make fudge, and they enjoy arts and

crafts. They like to have stories read to them, and they want to learn to read, and most of them do learn.

The others have either mild or severe physical disabilities but greater mental retardation than the first group. Some

of these, like Justine in Room 32, seem not to be much with us, though most of them have an inner life that

expresses itself overtly when least expected.

The betweeners-not as detached as Justine, not as involved as those who want to read-like to work with clay, string

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