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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Four students, each with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
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?
Author
Language
English
Description
"Eight years ago, Ethan and Rebecca met, two trouble-making kids sharing secrets and first kisses in a treehouse, until Ethan's mom returned to take him away. Each and every visit, his only goodbye was a flower on Rebecca's windowsill. Three years ago, Ethan left for the last time to take care of his mother, who's struggled with addiction his whole life. Two years ago, Rebecca was in a car accident that killed her father. She's been learning to navigate...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, twelve-year-old Jonathan Palmer must find a way to keep himself, his partially paralyzed younger sister, and their dog alive until help arrives.
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
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.
Author
Series
Shawn McDaniel volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him.
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Series
Language
English
Description
When her friend's sister is the latest victim in the child-snatchings plaguing her region, Amraeya ni Ansarim makes the journey to the royal court despite the mental and physical pain her malformed foot causes her, because she dares hope the rulers will help. She finds unexpected allies in the city, from the foreign princess to a street thief, but as the mystery unravels, it's possible the answers she seeks could endanger the entire kingdom.
10) Leaving Paradise
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-olds Caleb and Maggie relate the difficulties of readjusting to school, and changing relationships with family, friends, and one another, a year after a drunk driving accident sent her to the hospital with a crippling leg injury and him to prison.
11) The Oracle Code
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author Marieke Nijkamp and artist Manuel Preitano unveil a graphic novel that explores the dark corridors of Barbara Gordon's first mystery: herself.
After a gunshot leaves her paralyzed below the waist, Barbara Gordon must undergo physical and mental rehabilitation at Arkham Center for Independence. She must adapt to a new normal, but she cannot shake the feeling that something is dangerously amiss. Strange sounds...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
"If Effie's being honest with herself, she knows just what she wants. She wants to enjoy all the firsts and lasts of senior year with her two best friends. She wants to go to college in NYC and major in mass media so she can make sure more disabled people like her get to see themselves represented. She's never been to New York, but she can picture the person she'll be there, far from the Minneapolis neighborhood where she's lived her entire life....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
After shattering his knee in a car accident, Ezra Faulkner loses his athletic ability and status at school. Forced to sit at the table of "misfits," Ezra meets the unusual Cassidy Thorpe, and with her help discovers a side of life he had been overlooking.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Born with cerebral palsy, Amy can't walk without a walker, talk without a voice box, or even fully control her facial expressions. Plagued by obsessive-compulsive disorder, Matthew is consumed with repeated thoughts, neurotic rituals, and crippling fear. Both in desperate need of someone to help them reach out to the world, Amy and Matthew are more alike than either ever realized. When Amy decides to hire student aides to help her in her senior year...
16) Saving Red
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Right before winter break, fourteen-year-old Molly Rosenberg reluctantly volunteers to participate in Santa Monica's annual homeless count, just to get her school's community service requirement out of the way. But when she ends up meeting Red, a spirited homeless girl only a few years older than she is, Molly makes it her mission to reunite her with her family in time for Christmas. This turns out to be extremely difficult--because Red refuses to...
17) I, Claudia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
"Over the course of her high school years, awkward Claudia McCarthy finds herself unwittingly drawn into the dark side of her school's student government, with dire consequences"--
19) Drowned
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Coe is one of the few remaining teenagers on the island of Tides. Deformed and weak, she is constantly reminded that in a world where dry land dwindles at every high tide, she is not welcome. The only bright spot in her harsh and difficult life is the strong, capable Tiam-- but love has long ago been forgotten by her society. The only priority is survival. Until the day their King falls ill, leaving no male heir to take his place. Unrest grows, and...
20) The arsonist
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Description
Molly Mavity and Pepper Yusef are dealing with their own personal tragedies when they are tasked by an anonymous person with solving the decades-old murder of Ava Dryman, an East German teenager whose diary was published after her death.
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