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"""Okay everybody here's your GPS. Try to follow directions and don't get lost. We've got a lot of messages to deliver. Now trucks, hit the road. Oh, I'm so sorry. Let me introduce myself; I'm the Motor Cortex, I go by Mr. MC. I'm the part of the brain that plans and controls voluntary movements. Voluntary means intentional. I write the messages that tell certain body parts to work."" ""I'm his wife, Mrs. Up. I deliver the messages by using a group of trucks called the upper motor neurons. We live inside Rachael's head. We're in charge of a company called Rocky Road Trucking. We have three kids named Rit, Lit, and RFin,"" replied Mrs. Up. ""We're a family-owned business that delivers the mail. We don't call ourselves Rocky Road Trucking for nothing. Managing brain activity is a tough job, but somebody's got to do it. Some days it can be tough sorting through the mail,"" replied Mrs. Up."

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Reviewed By: Lesley Jones Review Rating: 5 Stars - Congratulations on your 5-star review! Get your free 5-star seal! Reviewed By Lesley Jones for Readers' Favorite In Rocky Road Trucking by Rachael Benson, imagine if parts of your brain could communicate with each other? Meet the Rocky Road trucker family: Mr. MC, his wife Mrs. UP, and their three children, Rit, Lit, and RFin. They live inside Rachael's mind and they help her learn new skills. Rachael is a little girl with cerebral palsy, and we follow her as the rocky road truckers work as a team to help her write her name and dress herself for the first time. This book looks at the subject matter of the mind through a disabled child, but in a very unique way using this family of funny characters. The book is both educational and amusing and a great bedtime read for parents and children. The concept of this book is extraordinary and something I have never come across before. It is extremely informative about the workings of the mind and the different parts of the brain, but at the same time explains it in a way that is easily understood by children. This would make a perfect bedtime story for a child with cerebral palsy or equally a child without. It will give young readers a clear understanding that there are children who are different from themselves. There are children who have to work that little bit harder to achieve things they take for granted such as dressing themselves, reading, and writing. This book would make an excellent addition to any school bookshelf. I love a book that can teach children tolerance and kindness to others, and this book achieves that goal perfectly. .

Reviewed By: Lesley Jones Review Rating: 5 Stars - Congratulations on your 5-star review! Get your free 5-star seal! Reviewed By Lesley Jones for Readers' Favorite In Rocky Road Trucking by Rachael Benson, imagine if parts of your brain could communicate with each other? Meet the Rocky Road trucker family: Mr. MC, his wife Mrs. UP, and their three children, Rit, Lit, and RFin. They live inside Rachael's mind and they help her learn new skills. Rachael is a little girl with cerebral palsy, and we follow her as the rocky road truckers work as a team to help her write her name and dress herself for the first time. This book looks at the subject matter of the mind through a disabled child, but in a very unique way using this family of funny characters. The book is both educational and amusing and a great bedtime read for parents and children. The concept of this book is extraordinary and something I have never come across before. It is extremely informative about the workings of the mind and the different parts of the brain, but at the same time explains it in a way that is easily understood by children. This would make a perfect bedtime story for a child with cerebral palsy or equally a child without. It will give young readers a clear understanding that there are children who are different from themselves. There are children who have to work that little bit harder to achieve things they take for granted such as dressing themselves, reading, and writing. This book would make an excellent addition to any school bookshelf. I love a book that can teach children tolerance and kindness to others, and this book achieves that goal perfectly. .

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Author Rachael Benson is a talented writer who happens to have Cerebral Palsy. She has never let that stop her from living her life. She wrote this story because she wanted to give people a taste of what she goes through to accomplish even the simplest of daily tasks. Her dad owned a mail route business and since having Cerebral Palsy is all about finding other routes/connections to do everyday tasks, Rocky Road Trucking was born. This book includes activities for kids to do in school, with parents and with youth programs to give them an idea of what their friends who have Cerebral Palsy have to go through. Author Rachael Benson is a talented writer who happens to have Cerebral Palsy. She has never let that stop her from living her life. She wrote this story because she wanted to give people a taste of what she goes through to accomplish even the simplest of daily tasks. Her dad owned a mail route business and since having Cerebral Palsy is all about finding other routes/connections to do everyday tasks, Rocky Road Trucking was born. This book includes activities for kids to do in school, with parents and with youth programs to give them an idea of what their friends who have Cerebral Palsy have to go through.

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