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  Matilda Chapter Summaries 1-9 Chapter 1: The Reader of Books The narrator describes how most parents think that their children are the best and the smartest. The narrator says that sometimes parents do the opposite and ignore their children. This is the case with Matilda. Matilda’s brother, Michael, is “perfectly normal,” but Matilda is brilliant and sensitive. She can speak like an adult at age one and a half. She teaches herself to read by age three, but her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood, do not notice that she is special. There are very few books in Matilda’s home, so she asks her father if he would buy her one. He tells Matilda that she should watch TV instead.  Every afternoon, while her father is working and her mother leaves town to play bingo, Matilda walks to the public library. The librarian, Mrs. Phelps, is concerned by Matilda’s age and lack of supervision, but does not interfere. Matilda reads through all of the children’s books and asks for a good, ...

  Out of My Mind Chapters 1-12 Summary Chapter 1 The story is narrated by a young girl who is almost eleven years old and lives with her father and mother. She develops a strong understanding of language very early on in life and remembers the words to nearly all the songs her parents ever sang and stories they ever told her. Even though her head is almost overflowing with thoughts, she has never spoken a word. Chapter 2 This chapter more fully introduces Melody Brooks, a young girl living with a crippling medical disorder. Due to her illness, she is unable to walk or talk, and she can barely move her arms. On occasion, her limbs seem to act with a mind of their own and flail about even if she does not want them to. She has a pink wheelchair, which she uses to get around, though the fact that it’s pink doesn’t add much in her opinion. Melody has an incredible memory and can recall specific events even from when she was only a baby. She is a quick learner, so she picked up t...