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61) The Burning Man
Author
Formats
Description
"Peter Hale is a young attorney struggling to make his own mark in his father's venerable law firm when he is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. During the trial of a multimillion-dollar case, Peter's father, the lead counsel, suffers a heart attack and asks Peter to move for a mistrial until he's feeling better. Peter decides this is his only chance to prove to his father that he is the terrific lawyer he knows himself to be, and he chooses...
Author
Pub. Date
1990.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"The tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the characters' voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner's masterpiece"--Amazon.com.
63) Mason
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Mason, a developmentally disabled teen in Louisiana who possesses the power to project images from his mind into others' sight, puts his ability to devastating use when his older brother Gene, a drug-dealing sadist who routinely beats Mason, has Rene, Mason's only true friend, brutally beaten, believing she has witnessed a murder he committed.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The White Bicycle is the third stand-alone title in the Wild Orchid series about a young woman with Asperger's Syndrome. This installment chronicles Taylor Jane's travels to the south of France where she spends a summer babysitting for the Phoenix family. Including flashbacks into Taylor's earliest memories, along with immediate scenes in Lourmarin, a picturesque village in the Luberon Valley, The White Bicycle results in a journey for independence...
66) Fighting tackle
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When he becomes stronger but slower, Terry must deal with being moved from defensive safety to offensive tackle on his football team and with the fact that his younger brother, who was born with Down's Syndrome, is becoming a faster runner.
67) 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.
69) Odd man out
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
Though twins Kit and Jordy both would like to be accepted by the sixth graders in their small Missouri town, they discover that helping a lonely retarded man is more important.
70) Disabled people
Author
Pub. Date
1989
Description
Discusses the problems of people with physical and mental handicaps, such as finding jobs and mates, while emphasizing their similarities to the "rest of the world", and offers suggestions for personally helping the disabled.
72) My friend Jacob
Author
Pub. Date
[1980]
Description
A young boy tells about Jacob, who, though older and mentally slower, helps him a lot and is his very best friend.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A brother of an autistic child profiled in the trilogy that began with A Boy Called Noah describes the challenges he faced growing up in his brother's shadow, in an account that interweaves the social history of autism and its related research with the author's sideline experiences in childhood and adulthood.
76) Autism
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Discusses signs of autism and various treatments as well as the history of the disorder.
Author
Series
Special Kids in School volume no. 10
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Illustrations and simple text help teach children what autism is and how they can help autistic students in their classes or community.
79) Carrying Mason
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In rural Pennsylvania in 1958, when thirteen-year-old Luna's best friend Mason dies, she decides to move in with his mentally disabled mother and care for her as Mason did.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
During a summer visit, twelve-year-old Lucy must come to terms with both her grandmother's failing memory and how her mentally-challenged neighbor will impact her popularity when both enter the same middle school in the fall.
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