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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Finn Easton, sixteen and epileptic, struggles to feel like more than just a character in his father's cult-classic novels with the help of his best friend, Cade Hernandez, and first love, Julia--until Julia moves away.
3) Throat
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Emma, having always felt cursed by her epilepsy, comes to realize that it is this very condition that saves her when she is mysteriously attacked and left with all the powers but none of the limitations of a vampire.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Andria's twin sister, Iris, had adoring friends, a cool boyfriend, a wicked car, and a shelf full of soccer trophies. She had everything, in fact-including a drug problem. Six months after Iris's death, Andria is trying to keep her grades, her friends, and her family from falling apart. But stargazing and books aren't enough to ward off her guilt that she-the freak with the scary illness and all-black wardrobe-is still here when Iris isn't. And then...
Author
Series
Because you'll never meet me volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
" Ollie and Moritz might never meet, but their friendship knows no bounds. Their letters carry on as Ollie embarks on his first road trip away from the woods--no easy feat for a boy allergic to electricity--and Moritz decides which new school would best suit an eyeless boy who prefers to be alone. Along the way they meet other teens like them, other products of strange science who lead seemingly normal lives in ways Ollie and Moritz never imagined...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Josie is timid at school, comfortable at home, and confident when she and her dog Clementine are volunteering at the pediatric ward of the local hospital; Oscar is acting out and in trouble at school, miserable at home, and forced to volunteer as a punishment; Gabby is popular at school, but her perfect life is threatened because she is hiding a dangerous medical condition--but at the hospital the three children are brought together by Clementine...
Author
Series
Because you'll never meet me volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ollie, who has seizures when near electricity, lives in a backwoods cabin with his mother and rarely sees other people, and Moritz, born with no eyes and a heart defect that requires a pacemaker, is bullied at his high school, but when a physician who knows both suggests they begin corresponding, they form a strong bond that may get them through dark times.
Author
Series
Islands at the end of the world volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stranded in Honolulu when a strange cloud causes a worldwide electronics failure, sixteen-year-old Leilani and her father must make their way home to Hilo amid escalating perils, including her severe epilepsy.
10) The terminal man
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Harry Benson, a man who suffers from violent seizures, is implanted with electrodes that are designed to send soothing pulses to the pleasure centers of his brain, but something goes wrong with the operation and Benson sets out to get revenge on the doctors he believes are trying to turn him into a machine.
12) Improbable
Author
Language
English
Description
Compulsive gambler David Caine uses his brilliant mathematical mind to outsmart the odds at Manhattan's underground poker clubs, but when he experiences a severe epileptic seizure at a key moment, he finds his life spinning out of control, and agrees to try an experimental treatment that soon causes more harm than good.
13) Edith herself
Author
Pub. Date
1987.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Orphaned by her mother's death, Edith goes to live with her older sister and her dour husband in their stern Christian farming household, where the strain of adjusting seems to aggravate her epileptic seizures.
14) Halsey's pride
Author
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old March, an epileptic, comes to live with her dog breeder father and through her growing attachment to her father's prize dog, Pride, learns a great deal about love, truth, courage and how to cope with adverse fate.
20) Pagan's scribe
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
In France in 1209, Pagan, now an archdeacon, takes on a new scribe named Isidore, a fifteen-year-old epileptic and an orphan, and together they try to survive the siege of Carcassonne.
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