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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When he becomes stronger but slower, Terry must deal with being moved from defensive safety to offensive tackle on his football team and with the fact that his younger brother, who was born with Down's Syndrome, is becoming a faster runner.
5) The wild kid
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sammy, who is mildly retarded, runs away from home and becomes a prisoner of Kevin, a wild kid living in the woods.
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse.
7) Hey Jude
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Penny struggles to balance her last year of high school, a new romance, and looking after Jude, her sister with mental health issues.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Since her father's death, Cora, twelve, longs for a permanent home for herself, her special-needs sister, and their mother while navigating middle school and studying trees using her father's field notes.
10) True colors
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1952 Vermont, ten-year-old Blue decides to set out in the middle of her town's sesquicentennial celebration to find the mother who abandoned her as a baby, but a series of events reminds her that she already has everything she needs.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Hope must defend her developmentally disabled brother (who has not spoken a word since he was seven) when he is accused of murdering a beloved high school baseball coach.
12) The silver gate
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Book
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Elric and his mother secretly care for his mentally disabled sister, Wynn, whom the villagers consider a changeling, until their father threatens to sell her, so they flee into the forest, even though Elric does not share her belief in magic.
13) Sunnyside Plaza
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
While helping police officers Esther and Lon investigate a suspicious death at her group home, nineteen-year-old Sal Miyake, who is mentally challenged, gains insights into herself and makes new friends.
14) The degenerates
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
In 1928, Maxine, Rose, Alice, and London face vicious attendants and bullying older girls at the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded, each determined to change her fate at all costs. Includes historical notes about eugenics.
15) White bicycle
Author
Series
Wild orchid trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Red Deer Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"The White Bicycle follows the story of Taylor Jane Simon, a fictional teen with Asperger's Syndrome who travels to the south of France for summer work. Striking images of the French countryside frame a journey toward independence in which Taylor draws on memories of her past to make sense of the present."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2009
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 thatDeo finds renewed hope.
19) Up and Adam
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
With kindness in his heart and a smile on his face, Adam, a young boy with Down syndrome, and his dog, Up, help make a difference in their community when they help clean up the town after a big storm.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
During a summer visit, twelve-year-old Lucy must come to terms with both her grandmother's failing memory and how her mentally-challenged neighbor will impact her popularity when both enter the same middle school in the fall.
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