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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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"In one day, four lives weave together in unexpected ways. Virgil Salinas is shy and kindhearted and feels out of place in his crazy-about-sports family. Valencia Somerset, who is deaf, is smart, brave, and secretly lonely, and she loves everything about nature. Kaori Tanaka is a self-proclaimed psychic, whose little sister, Gen, is always following her around. And Chet Bullens wishes the weird kids would just stop being so different so he can concentrate...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.
Author
Series
Moses volume 2
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Moses and his friends enjoy the first day of school at their special school for the deaf and hard of hearing, where they use sign language to talk to each other.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
Fifth-grader Cally Louise Fisher stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates.
Author
Series
Collectors (Jacqueline West) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Overlooked in class, a hearing-impaired boy who collects lost or discarded trinkets discovers a dangerous underground world full of stolen wishes and the people who collect them.
6) Sugaring off
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Partially deaf, seventeen-year-old Owl feels the most free hiking the forested areas around her family's New Hampshire farm, but the apperance of Cody, a magnetic young man hired to help with the sugaring off, forces Owl to make difficult decisions about their relationship and her relationship with her family.
Author
Series
Critter club volume 19
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Liz has been assigned a class project that's perfect for her. She has to create a diorama of an animal habitat! Art plus animals? What could be better? Well, things could be better if Liz's new neighbor and classmate was a little nicer to her ... and a little less nosy!" -- Back cover.
10) Wait for me
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
As her senior year in high school approaches, Mina yearns to find her own path in life but working at the family business, taking care of her little sister, and dealing with her mother's impossible expectations are as stifling as the southern California heat, until she falls in love with a man who offers a way out.
Author
Series
Astrid the astronaut volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When members of the Shooting Stars and Petite Picassos team up for a combined STEM and art project, Astrid is torn between her best friend, Hallie, and her archrival, Pearl, until she overcomes her initial suspicions and realizes being a good teammate is more about working together than winning.
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Wilbur the pig knows how important friendship is - he learned that from Charlotte. So when Wilbur meets the lonely lamb Cardigan, he immediately strikes up a friendship. When Cardigan gets sold to another farmer, he realizes that he must embark on an unforgettable journey to find his friend. Along the way he discovers that with courage, heart and the love of your friends, you can accomplish most anything.
14) Nick Jr. holiday
Series
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
'Tis the season to make merry! Blue, Dora and Little Bill explore holiday traditions, sing songs, and celebrate the holiday season in three episodes.
15) Andromeda Klein
Author
Pub. Date
p2009
Description
High school sophomore Andromeda, an outcast because she studies the occult and has a hearing impairment and other disabilities, overcomes grief over terrible losses by enlisting others' help in her plan to save library books--and finds a kindred spirit along the way.
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