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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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Hattie Owen prefers to be steeped in the familiarity of her small-town life rather than think about the vast world beyond her own. During the summer that Hattie turns 12, her world is turned upside down with the startling arrival of an uncle no one has ever spoken about.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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Following his doctor's instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate "progris riports." He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can't even beat the laboratory mouse Algernon at maze-solving. Algernon is extra-clever thanks to an experimental brain operation so far tried only on animals. Charlie eagerly volunteers as the first human subject. After frustrating delays and agonies of concentration,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Tiger Ann Parker is forever being teased about her family by the girls in her class. Tiger knows her folks are different from others in their small town. They are mentally slow, she keeps her pain hidden as long as her strong, smart grandmother runs the household. Granny dies and Aunt Dorie Kay arrives, offering her a way out. Tiger Ann must make the most important decision of her life.
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Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, all the while dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher.
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In Massachusetts, eighteen-year-old Lyn, who has grown up in the public eye as the daughter of seven gladiators, wants nothing less than to follow her mother's path, but her only way of avoiding marriage to the warrior who killed her last stepfather may be to face him in the arena.
10) Best buddies
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Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Best buddies look out for each other, but when one has to go to school, what's the other to do? After a bit of moping . . . and whining . . . a boy and his dog find the perfect way to stay close all day long."--book jacket.
11) Private Peaceful
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Sixteen-year-old Hope must defend her developmentally disabled older brother (who has not spoken a word since he was nine) when he is accused of murdering a beloved high school baseball coach.
Sixteen-year-old Hope must defend her developmentally disabled brother (who has not spoken a word since he was nine) when he is accused of murdering a beloved high school baseball coach.
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Series
Wild orchid trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The White Bicycle is the third stand-alone title in the Wild Orchid series about a young woman with Asperger's Syndrome. This installment chronicles Taylor Jane's travels to the south of France where she spends a summer babysitting for the Phoenix family. Including flashbacks into Taylor's earliest memories, along with immediate scenes in Lourmarin, a picturesque village in the Luberon Valley, The White Bicycle results in a journey for independence...
16) Sunnyside Plaza
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
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While helping police officers Esther and Lon investigate a suspicious death at her group home, nineteen-year-old Sal Miyake, who is mentally challenged, gains insights into herself and makes new friends.
17) Tru confessions
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Computer-literate, twelve-year-old Tru keeps an electronic diary where she documents her desire to cure her handicapped twin brother and her plan to create a television show.
18) How smudge came
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Cindy, a developmentally challenged women, finds a stray dog to love, and shares it with a blind man at the Hospice where she works, but is not allowed to keep it at home. She tries to retrieve it from the SPCA, but it has already been taken: by the Hospice, where she can care for it & see it everyday, along with all the patients.
19) My friend Jacob
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Pub. Date
[1980]
Description
A young boy tells about Jacob, who, though older and mentally slower, helps him a lot and is his very best friend.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mother takes him and his younger brother, who has Down syndrome, to Puerto Rico to visit relatives they do not remember or have never met, and while there Marcus starts searching for his father, who left their family ten years ago and is somewhere on the island.