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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Graduating from their school's special education program, Quincy and Biddy are placed together in their first independent apartment and discover unexpected things they have in common in the face of past challenges and a harrowing trauma.
5) Rooster
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Rooster Cobb is in trouble--with his school, with his mother, with his girlfriend. He smokes too much and he hates his stepfather. In fact, he might not graduate from high school. But he just doesn't seem to care. That is until the guidance counselor and the principal come up with a plan to get Rooster through grade twelve, out of their lives forever and possibly on the right track with his life. The last thing Rooster wants to do is coach The Strikers,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2002.
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...
Author
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Aster, caught between a self-absorbed older sister and a mentally-disabled younger one, yearns for a normal life and, with her first boyfriend's encouragement and trust in God, she begins to make things better.
9) Autism
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
10) Head above water
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Skye, a high school junior, tries to find the time for both family obligations and personal interests, which include caring for her brother who has Down's Syndrome, dating her first boyfriend, and swimming competitively.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When soldiers attack a small village in Zimbabwe, Deo goes on the run with Innocent, his older, mentally disabled brother, carrying little but a leather soccer ball filled with money, and after facing prejudice, poverty, and tragedy, it is in soccer that Deo finds renewed hope.
12) Dead ends
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When Dane, a bully, refuses to hit Billy D because he has Down Syndrome, Billy takes that as a sign of friendship and enlists Dane's help in solving riddles left in an atlas by his missing father, sending the pair on a risky adventure.
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