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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Caden Bosch lives in two worlds. One is his real life with his family, his friends, and high school. There he is paranoid for no reason, thinks people are trying to kill him, and demonstrates obsessive compulsive behaviors. In his other world, he's part of the crew for a pirate captain on a voyage to the Challenger Deep, the ocean's deepest trench. There he's paranoid, wary of the mercurial captain and his mutinous parrot, and tries hard to interpret...
3) Superstar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Lester's first days as a fifth grader at Quarry Elementary School are not even a little bit like he thought they would be -- the cafeteria is too loud for Lester's ears, there are too many kids, and then there's the bully. Lester was always home-schooled, and now he's shocked to be stuck in a school where everything just seems wrong. That's until he hears about the science fair, which goes really well for Lester! But then things go a bit sideways,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
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Wheaton, Kansas seventh-grader Tucker MacBean loves comic books, so when his favorite comic has a contest to create a sidekick, he is hopeful that he can win, thereby fixing his struggling family.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Chester has always wanted to become a service dog, but when he fails his certification test it seems like that dream will never come true, that is until a family adopts him to be a companion for their ten-year-old son, Gus, who has autism.
6) Roll with it
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Henry would like to find a friend at school, but for a boy on the autism spectrum, making friends can be difficult, as his efforts are sometimes misinterpreted, or things just go wrong--but Henry keeps trying, and in the end he finds a friend he can play with.
10) Hello, universe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Virgil feels out of place in his crazy-about-sports family. Valencia is deaf, smart, and loves everything about nature. Kaori is a self-proclaimed psychic, whose little sister, Gen, is always following her around. And Chet wishes the weird kids would just stop being so different so that he can concentrate on basketball. They aren't friends. But when Chet pulls a prank that traps Virgil and his pet guinea pig at the bottom of a well, Kaori, Gen, and...
11) Dachy's Deaf
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Series
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English
Description
Dachy isn't embarrassed by his hearing aid, but sometimes his friends are so loud he has to turn it off. One day, he does just that to get some peace and quiet, but that's the last thing he ends up getting. The adventure that follows drives home the importance of listening to and caring for your friends as well as appreciating differences in others and overcoming personal obstacles.
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Language
English
Description
Steggie has a hard time speaking because of her stutter. When she is unable to warn her friends to stay out of the dangerous Dark Forest, they all find themselves in trouble. This charming story will entertain and provide gentle guidance to young readers with an emphasis on patience, friendship, and understanding and appreciating differences in others.
13) Emmy's Eczema
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English
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When Emmy runs out of cream to soothe her eczema, a condition that makes her skin dry and itchy, she and her friends must trek to the Jurassic meadow to gather more flowers and make more cream. But, will Emmy be able to resist scratching her skin until then? What she learns about perseverance and teamwork is good lesson for all children.
14) A boy called Bat
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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When his veterinarian mom brings home a stray baby skunk that needs rehabilitation before it can be placed in a wild animal shelter, Bat, who has austim, resolves to prove that he is up to the challenge of caring for the skunk permanently.
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Language
English
Description
The Perfect Butterfly is the colorful tale of a butterfly named Bonnie whose wings were not like her friends. Follow along as Bonnie makes new friends and comes to understand that being different is not always a bad thing. No matter who we are or how we look, we each have our own unique qualities that make us special to our friends. True friends are people that make you feel happy when you are sad. Ask yourself, are you a friend?
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English
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Join Drewbie and his nurse, Colleen, as they go on adventures together. Nothing slows this special-needs boy down from camping, joining Cub Scout, going to school, and even going on a Make-A-Wish trip. Colleen creates ways that Drewbie can enjoy the same things other boys his age enjoy with creativity and enthusiasm. This dynamic duo shows families that with some basic adaptations, a diagnosis of differently abled doesn't mean a death sentence or...
17) I Chose You
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Language
English
Description
We have each been chosen, uniquely created, cohesively fashioned for a specific purpose. Some of us have more or less mental, physical, or emotional abilities than others. But we all desire to be loved, belong, and to be understood because we are more alike than we are different.
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Series
Language
Español
Description
"This is a wonderful story, complimented with beautiful photographs. Children will relate to the joy in learning to do something that is important to them, especially when it's something they can participate in with their family!"- Becky Drews, MS. Ed Special Education
In MyaGrace Wants to Make Music, a young girl with disabilities shares her favorite activity. She loves to go to her weekly piano lesson! Everyone in her family plays a musical instrument...
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Language
English
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Carl is Deaf. When he notices that his library does not have any books with Deaf characters, he writes a letter to make a positive change that's inclusive of the asl community. Follow along as Carl writes a letter to help get more Deaf representation in books in the inspirational fiction book Carl Writes a Letter!
Carl was first introduced in our Katie Can series, based on our best-selling book of the same title. Continue following along on Carl's...
20) Tengo dislexia
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Series
Language
Español
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Sam nos cuenta su historia y juntos aprendemos qué significa tener dislexia y cómo no es impedimento para que un niño pueda hacer lo que desee en la vida. Sam sabe, como le sucede a su madre, que las dificultades que tiene para escribir, leer o calcular se deben a que tiene dislexia. Pero muchas personalidades relevantes han sufrido o sufren dilexia (dificultad en el aprendizaje provocado por un gen en el sexto cromosoma) sin que ello haya mermado...
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