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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache.
Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence-a procedure that has already...
Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence-a procedure that has already...
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English
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"Six years after her twin sister's death, 16-year-old Sage discovers a shocking secret, her sister didn't die, she was committed to Willowbrook State School. The sister recently went missing, and, determined to find her, Sage walks through its doors, which changes her life in ways she never could have imagined"--
Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared...
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Language
English
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"After a party when her parents are away, eighteen-year-old Kerry Dowling is found fully dressed at the bottom of the family pool.The immediate suspect is her boyfriend who had a bitter argument with her at the party. Then there is a twenty-year-old neighbor who was angry because she didn't invite him to the party. Or is there someone else who has not yet been seen on the radar? Kerry's older sister Aline, a twenty-eight-year-old guidance counselor,...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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In the tiny Iowa farm town of Atalissa, a group of intellectually disabled men, all from Texas, lived in a tired old schoolhouse. Every morning, well before dawn, they were bussed to a processing plant to eviscerate turkeys in return for food, lodging, and $65 a month. From 1974 until 2009, the men lived in near servitude, enduring increasing neglect, exploitation, and physical and emotional abuse -- until state social workers, local journalists,...
10) Forrest Gump
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Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
Six foot six, 242 pounds, and possessed of a scant IQ of 70, Forrest Gump is the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this classic comic tale. His early life may seem inauspicious, but when the University of Alabama's football team drafts Forrest and makes him a star, it sets him on an unbelievable path that will transform him from Vietnam hero to world-class Ping-Pong player, from wrestler to entrepreneur. With a voice all his own, Forrest is telling...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When Aaron Maciver's beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers brain damage in a bike accident, she is left with the intellectual powers of a six-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness and devotion as they raise two children of their own.
12) Forrest Gump
Publisher
Paramount DVD
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he doesn't realize the significance of his actions. Forrest comes to embody...
13) The silent boy
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.
14) Radio
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A mentally-challenged student helps the school football team realize their potential.
Author
Series
Summerhill secrets volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After Merry befriends Elton, an artistically talented boy whom some of her eighth grade classmates call retarded, she must find a way to prove that he is not responsible for the damage at the farm of her Amish friend, Rachel.
16) Dumb and dumber
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Comedy about a pair of dim-witted friends on a cross-country trip to return a case full of money.
Author
Series
Barco de vapor volume 164
Publisher
Ediciones SM
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Español
Description
Mentally handicapped Charlie Gordon participates in an experiment which turns him into a genius temporarily.
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A memoir and history of the Special Olympics and a meditation on what one can learn about how to live from people with intellectual disabilities, by the chairman of the Special Olympics"--Provided by publisher.
hriver shows how his teachers have been the world's most forgotten minority: people with intellectual disabilities. He shares the quiet legacy of his aunt Rosemary, a Kennedy whose intellectual disability kept her far from the limelight,...
19) Sophie gets real
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Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Although Sophie's faith is shaken after her baby sister is born with Down Syndrome and as she tries to help a troubled girl at her school, the other Corn Flakes and Dr. Peter are there to lend their support.
20) I am Sam
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A mentally-challenged man seeks custody of his young daughter.
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