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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 580L
Language
English
Description
In a lush, contemporary fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Brigid Kemmerer gives readers another compulsively readable romance perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer.
Fall in love, break the curse.
It once seemed so easy to Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall. Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year over and over, he knew he could be saved if a girl fell for him. But that was before he learned that at the end...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
Great story of human courage and dedication recounted in autobiography of a remarkable woman: the magical moment when Miss Keller first recognizes the connection between words and objects, her joy at learning how to speak, friendships with notable figures, her education at Radcliffe and an extraordinary relationship with her inspired teacher, Anne Sullivan. An unforgettable portrait of one of the 20th century's outstanding women.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Description
"The curse is finally broken, but Prince Rhen of Emberfall faces darker troubles still. Rumors circulate that he is not the true heir and that forbidden magic has been unleashed in Emberfall. Loyalties are tested and new love blooms in a kingdom on the brink of war."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When Emily sees her developmentally disabled classmate Belinda being attacked, she does nothing at all. Belinda, however, manages to save herself. When their high school finds out what happened, Emily and Lucas, a football player who was also there that night, are required to perform community service at a center for disabled people. But can they do anything that will actually help the one person they hurt the most?
6) Girl, stolen
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When an impulsive carjacking turns into a kidnapping, Griffin, a high school dropout, finds himself more in sympathy with his wealthy, blind victim, sixteen-year-old Cheyenne, than with his greedy father.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
"The seventeen eye-opening essays in Disability Visibility, all written by disabled people, offer keen insight into the complex and rich disability experience, examining life's ableism and inequality, its challenges and losses, its wisdom, passion, and joy. The accounts in this collection ask readers to think about disabled people not as individuals who need to be "fixed," but as members of a community with its own history, culture, and movements....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Formats
Description
People with disabilities (PWDs) have the same aspirations for their lives as anyone else. The difference is that PWDs don't have the same access to education, employment, housing, transportation and healthcare to achieve their goals. In The Disability Experience you'll meet people with different kids of disabilities and begin to understand the ways PWDs have been ignored and marginalized throughout history. The book explores disability culture and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, Caleb and Maggie relate the struggles of being reunited after nearly a year apart when both join a group of teens affected by drunk driving, and finally facing their true feelings for one another.
10) Impossible music
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 820L
Language
English
Description
In a class for the newly deaf, former musician Simon meets G and his quest to create an entirely new form of music helps him better understand her, himself, and his relationship to the hearing world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
January 1988, Martin Pistorius, aged twelve, fell inexplicably sick. First he lost his voice and stopped eating. Then he slept constantly and shunned human contact. Doctors were mystified. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound. Martin's parents were told an unknown degenerative disease left him with the mind of a baby and less than two years to live. Martin was moved to care centers for severely disabled children. The stress and...
12) Angle of repose
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 35
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. The unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegner's masterpiece. Four generations in the life of an American family are chronicled as retired historian Lyman Ward, confined to a wheelchair, decides...
13) Going bovine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob's [aka mad cow] disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With acerbic wit and a hilarious voice, Shane Burcaw's Laughing at My Nightmare describes the challenges he faces as a twenty-one-year-old with spinal muscular atrophy. From awkward handshakes to having a girlfriend and everything in between, Shane handles his situation with humor and a 'you-only-live-once' perspective on life. While he does talk about everyday issues that are relatable to teens, he also offers an eye-opening perspective on what...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A high school athlete, frustrated at being handicapped after an accident, runs away from home and is helped back to mental and physical health by a black benefactor and the people in a special school where he enrolls.
16) Making a play
Author
Series
Field party novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Language
English
Description
In the small town of Lawton, Alabama, high school senior Ryker, a player on and off the football field, falls in love with a deaf girl who lives with her overprotective twin brother and bigoted father.
17) The acorn people
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author's experiences as a counselor at a summer camp for handicapped children form the basis for his portrayal of five severely handicapped youths at Camp Wiggin and the acorn necklaces and zest for life that united them all
19) Odd & true
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Trudchen grew up hearing Odette's stories of their monster-slaying mother and a magician's curse. But now that Tru's older, she's starting to wonder if her older sister's tales were just comforting lies, especially because there's nothing fantastic about her own life-permanently disabled and in constant pain from childhood polio. In 1909, after a two-year absence, Od reappears with a suitcase supposedly full of weapons and a promise to rescue Tru...
20) Hope Mountain
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jamie Brooks, having lost his house, girlfriend, and career as a skier, decides to commit suicide, but when that fails, he sets out on a journey that leads him to Hope Mountain--a place where miracles happen.
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