num_pages: 203
description: In this beautiful and chilling memoir, twenty-five-year-old Samantha Abeel describes her struggles with a math-related learning disability, and how it forced her to find inner strength and courage. Samantha Abeel couldn't tell time, remember her locker combination, or count out change at a checkout counter -- and she was in seventh grade. For a straight-A student like Samantha, problems like these made no sense. She dreaded school, and began having anxiety attacks. In her thirteenth winter, she found the courage to confront her problems -- and was diagnosed with a learning disability. Slowly, Samantha's life began to change again. She discovered that she was stronger than she'd ever thought possible -- and that sometimes, when things look bleakest, hope is closer than you think.
language: English
title: My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir
titlecomplete: My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir
genres: Autobiography, Teen, Disability, Psychology, Middle Grade, Biography, School, Dyscalculia, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1174
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Schneider Family Book Award
category: Teen Book
publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks