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45) My Louisiana sky
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
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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...
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"Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary--awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears--seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a car crash, and Sage's stepfather, Alan, resents being burdened...
50) Sunnyside Plaza
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
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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.
51) Lottery
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31-year-old Perry Crandall's IQ is only 76 but he's no fool. His Gram taught him everything he needs to know to survive, but after she dies he is left alone until a winning lottery ticket nets him $12 million and more family turns up than he knows what to do with.
52) Deer season
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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"Over a weekend a teenage girl goes missing. Hal, a mentally challenged farmhand, returns from a hunting trip with a flimsy story about the blood in his truck and a dent near the headlight. When the situation escalates from that of a missing girl to something more sinister, Alma Costagan and her husband are forced to confront what Hal might be capable of"--
54) Best buddies
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Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Best buddies look out for each other, but when one has to go to school, what's the other to do? After a bit of moping . . . and whining . . . a boy and his dog find the perfect way to stay close all day long."--book jacket.
55) Private Peaceful
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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.
56) Girls like us
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
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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.
57) How smudge came
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Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Cindy, a developmentally challenged women, finds a stray dog to love, and shares it with a blind man at the Hospice where she works, but is not allowed to keep it at home. She tries to retrieve it from the SPCA, but it has already been taken: by the Hospice, where she can care for it & see it everyday, along with all the patients.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"Everyone on Earth is different. Kids who have someone in their family with Down syndrome might wonder about their family member's unique differences. This title will help children who have questions about Down syndrome. What is it and how is their family member different? How can young readers respond to questions from their own friends about their family member? The age-appropriate text and full-color photographs presented in this sensitively written...