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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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NYT - Middle Grade Paperback
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Paperback
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NYT - Middle Grade Paperback
Description
Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who choses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
5) Going bovine
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital, in an attempt to find a cure.
6) Tangerine
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin/Plume
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Beth is a spirited woman with an intellectual disability who lives intensely and often joyfully, and spends most of her days riding the buses in Pennsylvania. The drivers, a lively group, are her mentors; her fellow passengers, her community-though some display less patience or kindness than others.
Her sister, Rachel, a teacher and writer, camouflages her emotional isolation by leading a hyperbusy life. But one day, Beth asks Rachel to accompany...
8) The storm
Author
Publisher
Cobblehill/Dutton
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Newbery Honor Book: 2003.
The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town.
11) Scorcher
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a serial killer takes PI Fred Carver’s son, the ex-cop goes hunting for vengeance in this “classic page-turner” by the New York Times–bestselling author (The Houston Post).
A year ago, Fred Carver was nothing but a disabled ex-cop whose career, marriage, and family were all little more than fading memories. But then, while working as a private detective, he met Edwina Talbot, and ten months...
A year ago, Fred Carver was nothing but a disabled ex-cop whose career, marriage, and family were all little more than fading memories. But then, while working as a private detective, he met Edwina Talbot, and ten months...
12) Of mice and men
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells a story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers, who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife. Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him. With illustrations from the movie starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.
13) Fanny
Author
Publisher
Price/Stern/Sloan
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Most of the farm animals avoid talking to Fanny, the three-legged cat, mistakenly thinking she would be embarrassed about her physical handicap.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1573, the crippled, scorned, and destitute Meggy Swann goes to London, where she meets her father, an impoverished alchemist, and eventually discovers that although her legs are bent and weak, she has many other strengths.
16) Gathering blue
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bill Rush's exceptional journey continues to encourage and inspire all who aspire to live fully and contribute to society. Bill lived with a significant disability of quadriplegic cerebral palsy. He did not have use of his arms, hands or voice. Society's prejudices proved to be a greater obstacle than his disability in attaining his first life's goal of completing college.
William (Bill) L. Rush chronicled his extraordinary life from childhood...
William (Bill) L. Rush chronicled his extraordinary life from childhood...
19) The silent boy
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.
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