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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Summerhill secrets volume 2
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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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,...
11) When pigs fly
Author
Publisher
Putnams
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Buddy Rae and her best friend Jiniwin do everything together--taking care of Buddy's slow younger sister, "parenting" egg babies, talking about boys, and dealing with Buddy's family move to a farm outside Turnback, Missouri.
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Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
One of the special-needs children riding horses at Keystone Stables during the summer has Down syndrome and when his affection for Skye embarrasses her, she begins to treat him harshly.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
For a tribute to his mother, a dead rock star, fifteen-year-old Grady returns to Seattle, where he faces his mixed feelings for his retarded younger half-brother Louie while pondering his own future.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum books for Young Readers/ Simon & Schuster Childre's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
During 1944, life in rural alabama brings changes for eleven-year-old Tattnall as she realizes that she cannot always protect her older, brain-damaged cousin.
17) Down syndrome
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Explains what life is like for children and adults with Down syndrome and describes the syndrome's history, causes, and effects.
18) Crazy lady!
Author
Publisher
Harper/Collins
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As he tries to come to terms with his mother's death, Vernon finds solace in his growing relationship with the neighborhood outcasts, an alcoholic and her retarded son.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dollhouse filled with a ghostly light in the middle of the night, and dolls that have moved from where she last left them, lead Amy and her mentally handicapped sister to unravel the mystery surrounding grisly murders that took place years ago.