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Original Title:	Petey
ISBN:	0786813369 (ISBN13: 9780786813360)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Montana(United States)
Literary Awards:	Spur Award for Best Juvenile Fiction (1999)

Petey

Ben Mikaelsen

Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 4.3 | 3997 Users | 553 Reviews

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Title	:	Petey
Author	:	Ben Mikaelsen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	April 3rd 2000 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (first published 1999)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Realistic Fiction. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Disability. Childrens. Middle Grade

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My 4th grade son's class read this together. He came home talking about it. And then, luckily, they got to have a phone interview with the author! As he learned more about the back story of Petey from the author, he came to love the book even more. One day while we were in the library, he insisted that we check the book out so I could read it too. I agreed and we brought it home.
Technically, it wasn't a difficult book to read, but it was hard.... emotionally. Maybe more so because I'm a mother. I cried as Petey's mother, who had done everything she could for her son, put him on a train and into the State's care. I cried as Petey tried to reach out from his bodily prison, trying to show the people around him he wasn't really an "idiot". I rejoiced as he made small advances, and I wished with all my heart that he had been born in a different time where he could have gotten the help and therapy he needed.
I read the book in a day and a half, my son asking my constantly, "How do you like it, Mom?"

I have to say I enjoyed it immensely, and I'm so grateful for a good teacher who wants to teach her class compassion and looking at people's hearts....not just the outer shell.

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Ratings: 4.3 From 3997 Users | 553 Reviews

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An important book. I read this with my 8th grade daughter in our mother-daughter book club. I'm so glad she read it. I'm so glad I read it, too. Hopefully we will carry it with us and let it inspire us to make the world a tiny bit better.

Such a heartwarming story about a man named Petey who suffers from severe cerebral palsy, and the lives he touches along his own journey through life. This book is based on a true story. The audiobook included an interview with the author, where he explained his own interactions with the real life Petey. I will definitely recommend this book to my 4th and 5th grade boys!

Ben Mikaelsen does not possess the talent to be writing a book about cerebral palsy. His words are clumsy and pedestrian, his characters are paper dolls, his pacing is non-existent, and his sense of plot is amateur at best. Most of Petey centers around the titular character, who suffers from cerebral palsy, and the people who enter his life only to abandon him a couple chapters later. Is this Mikaelsen's Big Message? Humans Are Uncomfortable And More Than Willing To Ditch People Who Aren't

I think the book was pretty good. I read it when I was in fifth grade, and now I have different feelings about it. I guess I didn't understand the real meaning of it in fifth grade which for the most part makes sense. The reason why I only gave it four stars instead of five was because I feel as though the beginning wastes to much time. I understand that it's meant to lead you into the story, but I think that the author definitely could've made it shorter.

This book "Petey" by Ben Mikaelsen, in realistic fiction, was a great book on a real world topic and a very real and not to joke about. My favorite part of the book was when a middle school student protected Petey in one situation and became best friends because it shows that it doesn't matter what your age is and you can be friends with people no matter what they look like, and when Petey met up with an old care taker and later met up with an old friend and the care taker with his best friend

I've read this twice and cried both times. This books is about the indomitable human spirit and the true nature of friendship.

I learned that you should never ever judge someone by how they look. Just because a person is disabled doesn't mean they're idiotic! I recommend this to people who like reading books about someone and how they grow up. So basically I recommend this to people who like reading about someone and who like crying while reading the book and laughing while reading it.