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22) Private Peaceful
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself.
23) Tru confessions
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Computer-literate, twelve-year-old Tru keeps an electronic diary where she documents her desire to cure her handicapped twin brother and her plan to create a television show.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) often struggle during the transition process from high school to adulthood. After age 21, young adults with disabilities "age out" of the myriad services and supports required by law through the school system and transition into the state agency responsible for providing services and supports to adults with I/DD. This transition is an abrupt change that many parents and youth characterize...
26) Radio
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
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
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, all the while dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher.
32) My Louisiana sky
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Tiger Ann Parker is forever being teased about her family by the girls in her class. Tiger knows her folks are different from others in their small town. They are mentally slow, she keeps her pain hidden as long as her strong, smart grandmother runs the household. Granny dies and Aunt Dorie Kay arrives, offering her a way out. Tiger Ann must make the most important decision of her life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 41
Formats
Description
In his most brilliant and powerful novel, Pat Conroy tells the story of Tom Wingo, his twin sister, Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the family into which they were born. Set in New York City and the low country of South Carolina, the novel opens when Tom, a high school football coach whose marriage and career are crumbling, flies from South Carolina to New York after learning of his twin sister's suicide attempt. Savannah is one of the...
37) Forrest Gump
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
A sweet natured man with an IQ of 70 personally experiences all of the important events of three decades of American life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Sixteen-year-old Hope must defend her developmentally disabled older brother (who has not spoken a word since he was nine) when he is accused of murdering a beloved high school baseball coach.
Sixteen-year-old Hope must defend her developmentally disabled brother (who has not spoken a word since he was nine) when he is accused of murdering a beloved high school baseball coach.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"After failing to come to Belinda's aid while she was being attacked, Emily and another classmate are punished by being forced to work at a community center for people with disabilities, but they are put the ultimate test when Belinda finally returns to school and they must find a way to make amends to her"--