I Am Abel: And the Wall Ball Challenge

By Sharon Balardo and Lori-Alyce Martin

Abel uses a wheelchair because he can’t walk, but that doesn’t hold him back. The children at school used to assume that Abel couldn’t do the things they could do, but that all changed when he won the school spelling bee for his grade. Abel must now confront two school bullies who think they own the school and won’t allow others to play wall ball. Abel tries to inform the bullies that there is enough wall for everyone to play, but that doesn’t seem to work. Abel finds himself, along with his best friend Pouvoir, in a wall ball challenge, with the winners taking the wall.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Apr 22, 2020
• ISBN: 9781728359748

Sharon Balardo

Author Sharon Balardo writes the children's book, I Am Abel, with the intention of shifting the focus to children's "abilities". As Sharon completed her teacher certification at D'Youville College in 2007/2008, she was required to write two children's books as course assignments. Writing from the heart, Sharon mentally wrote the bulk of I Am Abel one evening as she was driving home from D'Youville College, Buffalo, New York to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Sharon Balardo regards herself as parent first, teacher/author second. She leaves her reader with the idea to never judge a book by its cover and never underestimate the abilities of a child as witnessed in her children's book, I Am Abel.

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