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Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Moving halfway across the country to Colorado right before senior year isn't Maya's idea of a good time. Leaving behind Pratt School for the Deaf where she's been a student for years only to attend a hearing school is even worse. Maya has dreams of breaking into the medical field and is determined to get the grades and a college degree to match, and she's never considered being Deaf a disability. But her teachers and classmates at Engelmann High don't...
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English
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Gloria, an impulsive, naïve and likeable teen with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), tries to keep her family together while their mother's addictions threaten a move to foster care. Willa, an older teen with a learning disability (LD), wants to play in a rock band where her gifts truly shine, but her mother's controlling and perfectionistic personality - and Willa's increasingly abusive boyfriend - cause her unhappiness. When Gloria and Willa...
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English
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Sometimes in high school, all you want is to be invisible. Being invisible might be the biggest problem of all for Natalie. She has a disability that causes chaos to her body on the inside, but leaves her unmarked on the outside. She's learned to hide her pain so well that you would never guess she's not the same Natalie as she was before she got sick. But, after having surgery, Natalie must return to school in a wheelchair. Now, Natalie has to decide...
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Description
THE BSE (Best Summer Ever) LIST!
1. Blueberries
2. Art show in ShoeHorn
3. Lizzo concert
4. Thrift shop pop-up
5. Skinny Dipping at the lake house
6. Amusement Park Day!
7. Drew Barrymarathon
8. Paintball day
Oh, and ….
9. Fall out of love with Hailee
Andrea Williams has got this. The Best Summer Ever. Two summers ago, she spent all her time in bed, recovering from the latest surgery for her cerebral palsy. She's waited too long...
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Emilie Day believes in playing it safe: she's homeschooled, her best friend is her seizure dog, and she's probably the only girl on the Outer Banks of North Carolina who can't swim. Then Emilie's mom enrolls her in public school, and Emilie goes from studying at home in her pj's to halls full of strangers. To make matters worse, Emilie is paired with starting point guard Chatham York for a major research project on Emily Dickinson. She should be ecstatic...
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English
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When Scilla, the eldest princess of Azzaria is murdered by an assassin, her vengeful spirit is doomed to remain with the living, tormenting her loved ones until her killer is brought to justice. While the entire kingdom mourns, Scilla's betrothed arrives and requests her seventeen-year-old sister Jiara take her place as his bride to confirm the alliance between their countries.
Marrying the young king intended for her sister and traveling to his...
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English
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Iris Heller, a 15-year-old teenager with Sensory Processing Disorder, runs away to compete in a national bake-off contest. In order to get there, she 'borrows' her mom's car, travels through several states, and does the most terrifying thing of all - interacts with actual people! Iris has never been like other girls, but she's not about to start letting that get in the way. Iris has this profound fascination for the musician Dave Matthews, and she...
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English
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When Lace's older sister, Marni, falls victim to a summer swimming accident, it paralyzes Lace in time. For Lace, there is only a before--can there be an after? But as the summer surges on, she learns that she must return to the water, the very thing that tore her family apart. This beautifully crafted novel explores the boundaries of family and friendship, the greatest griefs that knock us down, and the smallest kindnesses that guide us to safe harbors....
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English
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Marcus is so good at football that there's a very real chance he'll be signed by Manchester United. But, when he discovers he may be losing his hearing, his whole world falls to pieces and he finds himself having to put them back together on his own. But, is this feeling of isolation real or just a consequence of his own behavior? While dealing with parents, friends and first girlfriends, Marcus gradually understands that accepting the help of others...
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Español
Description
Una mujer, señora, ha sido toda su vida una gran lectora, "soy producto de mis lecturas", suele decir. Hoy, postrada en cama por la enfermedad y la vejez y sin fuerzas para sostener un libro en las manos, contrata a un joven lector para dedicarse a leer para ella nuevos libros y releerle viejas lecturas que la llenan de recuerdos y de vida, con el cual establece una extraña relación.
11) Currents
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English
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Set four years after the events of Strings, Currents finds the Able gang about to start their second year at Goodspeed University. Phillip is struggling more than ever with anxiety and PTSD, and he continues to feel tremendous guilt over the loss of a friend. It's haunting him. He's having vivid nightmares, passing out frequently, and starting to question his role in the world.
On top of all that, he's taking his first public speaking course, and...
12) Unravel
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Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Marguerite knows her uncle doesn't like her. True, she's in line for the throne before him and he contends she's too deaf to rule, but she's known since he broke her hand to keep her from using sign language. Now, as the kingdom's Bishop-Princep, Uncle Reichard has declared war on magic and Marguerite must hide the fact that she's a witch.While witnessing her first witch trial, Marguerite rescues a child from death with the help of...
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English
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I'm in the middle of a full-blown spaz-attack, and I don't care. I don't care at all. At home, I always try to act normal, and spaz-attacks definitely aren't normal. Here, people understand. They know a spaz-attack signals that I'm excited. They're excited too, so they squeal with me; some even spaz on purpose, if you can call that spazzing...
An unforgettable coming-of-age novel about what it's like to live with a physical disability
It's the...
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English
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The anticipated conclusion to the award-winning book, Somnium.Somnium. A perfect virtual world, where the sleeping mind walks... but corruption and evil can not be silenced for long.When Claudia's daughter is faced with the choice to reinstate Somnium, what she chooses will change the future of not only those she loves but the world as she knows it.Warning: contains sexual references and rape references.
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English
Description
Music can save a life.
Farida, a 15-year-old on the Autism Spectrum, realizes she has to relearn to play the guitar to enter a music competition to make money to help pay for her mother's life-saving cancer surgery, beat her musically-talented nemesis Clarissa, and attract her lifetime crush, Quentin.
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Language
Français
Description
Charly est un enfant DYS. Pourtant, cela ne le rend pas différent des autres...
Quelle étrange idée d'appeler un enfant Charlemagne ! Sans cet étrange prénom, Charly en est sûr, il serait un enfant comme les autres… à quelques adjectifs près. On le dit en effet trop distrait, dissipé, dispersé, voire discourtois, au grand dam des adultes qui l'entourent. Et cela lui vaut souvent les moqueries de ses camarades.
Charlemagne est dyslexique,...
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English
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Rosemary is fifteen and gloriously free, on her own for the very first time. Part of an exchange program for aspiring artists, she arrives in southern France with one goal: she doesn't plan to leave, ever. She wants a new life and a new identity. But her situation, crafted from lies big and small, is precarious. As Rosemary struggles to hide her lack of artistic talent and obvious communication disorder from her new family, she must ultimately choose...
18) Irrelevant
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English
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☢☣ For fans who loved Divergent comes an astonishing dystopian romance like no other. ☢☣Mallory's been hiding who she is for 18 years...But now her terrible secret has been exposed.Branded Irrelevant, Mallory is cut off from everything she knows.Irrelevants are criminals, banished to live in the old city. But in the wasteland between the new city and the old, she stumbles on Cristan.He's bitter, paranoid, and possibly crazy...He may also be...
19) If We Were Stars
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English
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The final countdown begins in three hours. … Blimey. The last thing Kurt wants is to wear a space helmet, and, no, they didn't plan on saving the world either-Not before their eighteenth birthday anyway. Who'd have thought friending a lonely alien would lead to the Cape Canaveral launch pad.Best friends since they were ten years old, Kurt O'Hara and Beast Harris tackle the typical teenage challenges together: pronouns, AWOL bodies, not to mention...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Zach is riding the Greyhound bus through a snowstorm to visit his older brother Derek, whom he hasn't seen in seven months. That's when their parents finally went broke paying Derek's doctor's bills and had to give him up as a ward of the state. Nothing-not drawing in his sketchbook, not basketball-lets Zach forget that his brother is living in a mental institution five states away. But surprisingly, sitting next to a talkative teenage girl he nicknames...
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