每個人都不完美。
我很慶幸我不完美的地方是肢體，而不是心靈。

11歲女孩玫樂娣天資聰穎，文字和音樂對她而言有無法抗拒的魔力。她比同齡的孩子懂得更多、更優秀。可惜的是，她的聰明才智都被卡在腦袋裡，沒有人能與她分享。因為她罹患了腦性麻痺──她無法走路，也無法說話。

旁人看到的，只是一個坐在輪椅上手腳亂踢、口水滴溼前襟、不停發出刺耳尖叫的小女孩，極少人能看透外表，注意到她豐富的內在。有時她覺得自己就像一隻生活在魚缸裡的金魚，終日困在牢不可破的玻璃牢籠裡。她多想掙脫無法行動、無法言語的身軀，讓心的翅膀自由翱翔！

媽媽堅持讓玫樂娣上一般小學，玫樂娣在特殊教育班裡認識了唐氏症的眉俐雅、自閉症的葛洛禮亞、過動兒威利……她真心喜歡這群同學，外界對待他們的態度卻總是恐懼和誤解。尤其在「融合課程」（特教班學生和普通學生一起上課）開始後，玫樂娣更加體會到老師及普通班孩子對他們的害怕和排斥。

一天，學校宣布即將進行全校「小天才競賽」的校內甄選。獲勝的隊伍不但能代表學校參加全州的比賽，晉級後更能坐飛機去華盛頓參加Live實況轉播的全國性決賽！所有同學都躍躍欲試，參加初選，包括玫樂娣在內。但多數人對她的參賽嗤之以鼻、不屑一顧。沒想到，玫樂娣竟得到全校最高分！懷抱著希望的玫樂娣覺得自己終於被認同了，但現實的發展卻不是她所預期的那樣……。

“If there is one book teens and parents (and everyone else) should read this year, Out of My Mind should be it” (Denver Post).

Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her and smarter than her classmates in her integrated classroom—the very same classmates who dismiss her as mentally challenged, because she cannot tell them otherwise. But Melody refuses to be defined by cerebral palsy. And she’s determined to let everyone know it…somehow. In this breakthrough story—reminiscent of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly—from multiple Coretta Scott King Award-winner Sharon Draper, readers will come to know a brilliant mind and a brave spirit who will change forever how they look at anyone with a disability.