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Article: Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me.
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- The Horn Book Magazine
- Article date:
- September 1, 1994
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I recently heard a radio documentary describing a computer network for children with disabilities. The doctor who had initiated the idea described very movingly how the children progress from exchanging information about their medical treatments and therapies to communicating about their fears, sharing jokes, talking about their families -- in short, to forming friendships in this electronic meeting place.
The idea of the computer as a tool which can give voice to the silent or the silenced is used very effectively by Julie Johnston in her young-adult novel Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me (Little). Sara Moone, fifteen, has been buffeted around from foster home to ...