They Call Me Retard - Paperback

by Charlene Iverson (Author)

They Call Me Retard is a heartwarming story about Joey Parkins, a girl with Multiple Sclerosis, who was wrongly diagnosed with mental retardation. She is forced to live in a group home where she meets three other people with developmental disabilities. She leads her new friends in rising above the prejudice and injustices that they have been forced to face their entire lives. But something terrible happens that devastates them and nearly destroys them all.

Author Biography

Charlene Iverson has been writing since she was a teenager. She has published twenty books, over three hundred articles and several poems. She is also an artist who specializes in landscapes and the abstract. She is married to Howard Iverson. They have two daughters, five grandchildren and two great grandchildren. They love animals and have three cats.