Accidents of Nature

This book was okay, but just okay. It all takes place at a camp for "special" kids in the 70's, so there's a lot of lingo and stuff that's hard to keep up on.
It's about a girl with cerebral palsy, Jean, who goes to this camp, Camp Courage for ten days in summer. All her life she's strived to be just like everyone else, and everyone respects her for it and says she's a miracle, something which she's very proud to be. Then at camp she meets Sara, a girl who challenges everything she knows about being a cripple. Sara has muscular dystrophy, and thinks that they shouldn't try to be like "normal" people, they have the right to be just the way they are. They shouldn't be forced to walk or displayed on telethons. Jean doesn't know what to think.
The author, Harriet McBryde Johnson, definitely places herself in the story as Sara. From the flap on the back of the book about her, you can read that she became a lawyer, like Sara in the book, is disabled, and went to summer camp and special schools herself.
I must say, this book wasn't my favorite and it bored me at some parts, but it has some good strong messages about society and how normal people treat different people.