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A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost.

Young Katy Thatcher, the daughter of the town doctor, becomes friends with Jacob, a teenager who is "touched in the head," which allows her to understand what really happened when the unwanted infant of Jacob's sister is found dead.

The story of the relationship between a prominent high school football coach in a small South Carolina town and the illiterate, mentally-challenged man nicknamed Radio whom he mentors. Although their friendship raises some eyebrows at first, Radio's growth under the coach's guidance ultimately inspires the local townsfolk

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,...

Chronicles the rollicking misadventures of Forrest Gump, an idiot savant college football player whose mathematical genius does not prevent his flunking out and who finds himself drafted for Vietnam.

Beth is a spirited woman with mental retardation who spends nearly every day riding the buses in her pennsylvania city. The drivers, a lively group, are her mentors; her fellow passengers are her community. Beth, who lives independently and has a boyfriend, is a joyful, endearing, and feisty individual. Her single sister Rache;, a writer and professor, masks her emotional isolation and loneliness behind her hyperbusy schedule. When Beth asks Rachel...

Though twins Kit and Jordy both would like to be accepted by the sixth graders in their small Missouri town, they discover that helping a lonely retarded man is more important.

Discusses the problems of people with physical and mental handicaps, such as finding jobs and mates, while emphasizing their similarities to the "rest of the world", and offers suggestions for personally helping the disabled.

Lucy and her younger brother examine their feelings about a mentally handicapped boy they both fear when he follows them home one snowy day.

Dumb and dumber: Two dimwitted friends embark on a cross-country journey to return a briefcase full of cash to its rightful owner. ; Dumb and dumberer: The prequel when Harry and Lloyd meet on the first day of school.