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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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This true story of a boy who must overcome prejudice and weakness to treat a group of special needs children with the respect—and love—they deserve “will give your innards a bear hug. . . . You will read this book with a lump in your throat.” (Lincoln Journal)
From Ron Jones, a teacher who started the classroom program that inspired the movie The Wave, comes a memoir about a life-changing...
From Ron Jones, a teacher who started the classroom program that inspired the movie The Wave, comes a memoir about a life-changing...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
An “achingly wise” novel about the challenges of motherhood: “Admirers of Marilynne Robinson will find themselves very much at home in this book” (The Wall Street Journal).
Jessica Speight, an anthropologist in 1960s London, is at the beginning of a promising academic career when an affair turns her into a single mother. Baby Anna is delightful—but with time it becomes clear that she is...
Jessica Speight, an anthropologist in 1960s London, is at the beginning of a promising academic career when an affair turns her into a single mother. Baby Anna is delightful—but with time it becomes clear that she is...
3) The rescue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A volunteer fireman and a single mother join forces to find the woman's son who has been lost in a storm. While searching for the boy, the two adults find themselves increasingly close.
5) Ugly
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robert Hoge was born with a tumour in the middle of his face, and legs that weren't much use. There wasn't another baby like him in the whole of Australia, let alone Brisbane. But the rest of his life wasn't so unusual: he had a mum and a dad, brothers and sisters, friends at school and in his street. He had childhood scrapes and days at the beach; fights with his family and trouble with his teachers. He had doctors, too: lots of doctors who, when...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary Lennox is a prickly and unloved ten-year-old girl, born in India to wealthy British parents. When they suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. There, she begins to uncover many family secrets, particularly after meeting her sickly cousin Colin, who has been shut away in a wing of the house. Together, these two damaged, slightly misfit children heal each other through their discovery of a wondrous secret garden.
7) Earth girl
Author
Series
Earth girl trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sensational YA science fiction debut from an exciting new British author! Just because she's confined to the planet, doesn't mean she can't reach for the stars. 2788. Only the handicapped live on Earth. Eighteen-year-old Jarra is among the one in a thousand people born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. Sent to Earth at birth to save her life, she has been abandoned by her parents. She can't travel to other worlds, but
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Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone Imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Many children who have a disability feel left out. How can you help address this issue? An inclusive and accessible picture book from the Questions and Feelings About ... series uses child-friendly text and examples to explore that very question. It includes a helpful section with advice, practical tips, and activities for caregivers and teachers."--
9) Rain reign
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Struggling with Asperger's, Rose shares a bond with her beloved dog, but when the dog goes missing during a storm, Rose is forced to confront the limits of her comfort levels, even if it means leaving her routines in order to search for her pet.
Author
Series
Goolz next door volume 1
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Harold Bell lives a pretty normal life in his little seaside town. He fills his days with reading books, cruising down the boardwalk, and--unfortunately--trying to stay off the radar of Alex Hewitt and his pack of goons who can't resist bullying a boy in a wheelchair. But everything changes when famous horror novelist Frank Goolz moves next door with his daughters--beautiful, fierce Ilona and her troublemaking little sister, Suzie....
14) Hummingbird
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Olive, who suffers from brittle bone disease and has been homeschooled all her life, finally attends school in person she soon discovers fitting in is not that easy, but if she can find the magical wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives nearby, and prove herself worthy, maybe her deepest wish will be granted.
15) My ocean is blue
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A girl with a disability explores every facet of the ocean during a day at the beach. A girl spends an entire day exploring the seaside with her mom. A keen observer, she sees the ocean as both "big" and "small" and both "sparkly" and "dull. It's also "dotted and spiraled and wavy and straight." Her ocean is full of sounds -- it "splashes and crashes" and "laughs and hums." But, at times, it's silent. She is inspired to examine and celebrate every...
18) Gut reaction
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tess Medina is dealing with the loss of her beloved father, a new school, and the troubling fact that the thing she enjoys most in life, baking, seems to be making her increasingly ill--something she is trying to hide from everybody"--
20) Out of my mind
Author
Series
Out of my mind volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
"Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school -- but no one knows it. Most people -- her teachers and doctors included -- don't think she's capable of learning, and up until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-level alphabet lessons again and again and again. If only she could...