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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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When brain surgery makes a mouse into a genius, dull-witted Charlie Gordon wonders if it might also work for him. With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental...
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When Aaron Maciver's beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers brain damage in a bike accident, she is left with the intellectual powers of a six-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness and devotion as they raise two children of their own.
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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Ten-year-old Liam and his two younger sisters, precocious third-grader Dakota and second-grader Izzy, who has Down syndrome, face the possibility of losing their beloved dog, Cupcake, who keeps urinating on their apartment's carpet.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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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.
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Chad Wheeler, an arrogant, self-centered associate in a large Portland law firm, disobeys the orders of his father, a senior partner in the same firm, and commits a terrible blunder in a multi-million dollar law suit. Fired from his big-city job and disinherited from his father's will, he is sent in disgrace to work as a public defender in a small Oregon town, where he represents a retarded man who is facing the death penalty for the brutal murder...
9) Joker
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Warner Bros. Pictures presents Oscar nominee Joaquin Phoenix in the title role, alongside Oscar winner Robert De Niro, and is directed, produced and co-written by Oscar nominee Todd Phillips. The film centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips' exploration of Arthur Fleck, a man disregarded by society, is not only a gritty character study but also a broader cautionary tale....
10) Deer season
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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"--
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First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason. From the Trade Paperback edition. The novel reveals the story of the disintegration of the Compson family, doomed inhabitants of Faulkner's mythical Yoknapatawpha County, through the interior monologues...
12) Janine
Author
Series
Janine (Maryann Cocca-Leffler) volume 1
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Janine is one of a kind. She focuses on the positive while navigating life with disabilities. She makes a difference just by being herself"--
13) Lottery
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Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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“My name is Perry L. Crandall and I am not retarded.”
LOTTERY is an extraordinary novel about the nature of luck and chance. Perry’s IQ is only 76, but he’s not stupid. His Gram taught him everything he needs to know to survive: She taught him to write things down so he won’t forget them. She taught him to play the lottery every week. And most important, she taught him whom to trust.
When Gram dies,...
LOTTERY is an extraordinary novel about the nature of luck and chance. Perry’s IQ is only 76, but he’s not stupid. His Gram taught him everything he needs to know to survive: She taught him to write things down so he won’t forget them. She taught him to play the lottery every week. And most important, she taught him whom to trust.
When Gram dies,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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A dollhouse filled with a ghostly light in the middle of the night and dolls that have moved from where she last left them lead Amy and her retarded sister to unravel the mystery surrounding grisly murders that took place years ago.
16) Me too
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Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
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Hoping to expunge neighborhood prejudice and to do something everyone else has failed to do, a twelve year-old desperately tries to teach her retarded twin.
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Publisher
Owl Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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Evelyn Axon is a medium by trade; her daughter, Muriel, is a half-wit by nature. Barricaded in their crumbling house, surrounded by the festering rubbish of years, they defy the curiosity of their neighbors and their social worker, Isabel Field. Isabel is young and inexperienced and has troubles of her own: an elderly father who wanders the streets, and a lover, Colin, who wants her to run away with him. But Colin has three horrible children and a...