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1) Rogue lawyer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse apartment, and his primary piece of furniture...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aside from a secret affair with a housewife (Mary Steenburgen), Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) spends his days stocking shelves at a grocery store, caring for his mentally handicapped brother (Leonardo DiCaprio), and holding together a large family headed by Mama, a former beauty queen whose weight tops 500 pounds. But just when Gilbert thinks nothing will ever change, a beautiful stranger (Juliette Lewis) arrives on the scene, capturing his heart. Nominated...
3) Jimmy
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A mentally challenged teenager sees beings no one else can. Jimmy doesn't always understand what he sees and hears, but he remembers it all. His lawyer father asks him to testify in a crucial trial. The testimony saves the man, but has consequences for many.
4) Hurt you
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After moving to a new suburb, a Korean American teen must fight to protect herself and her neurodivergent older brother from a hostile community in this tragic story of bigotry and gun violence.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In sparsely populated George County, Mississippi, along a quiet dirt road lined by sharecropper houses, lies Chalktown, a small village of folks who communicate mostly through the chalkboards set up in the front yards of their houses. Down the road lives the Sheehand family: sixteen-year-old Hezekiah, his older sister, Arena, his mentally disabled younger brother, Yellababy, and their disaffected and often cruel mother, Susan Blair, whose husband...
6) Poppy
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Follows a young woman with Down syndrome who is determined to take control of her life despite the resistance of her overprotective older brother.
7) Autism
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
According to the Centers for Disease Control, approximately 1 in 68 American children has autism. This book describes the autism spectrum, exploring the various ways that this neurodevelopmental disorder can affect individuals, from difficulty with social cues to impaired communication to repetitive behaviors. In addition to learning about the treatment and diagnosis of autism, readers will discover how new research into the genetic components and...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Autism and Girls is a revised and updated edition of the bestselling book, Asperger's and Girls. This groundbreaking book describes the unique challenges of women and girls with autism spectrum disorder. In it, you'll read candid stories written by the indomitable women who have lived them and hear experts discuss whether ASD girls are slipping under the radar and remaining undiagnosed. This second edition provides practical solutions schools can...
11) Andy's rainbow
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"When rebellious teenager Rayne Davis is sentenced to community service at a special needs home, she wonders if life can get any worse. Then she meets Andy, a young man whose profoundly simplistic insights on life, death, and God softens her heart and helps her to look at life with a newfound optimism."--Container.
12) The blue wings
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two brothers bound together by affection and responsibility. Jadran is five years older than Josh and huge enough to be nicknamed Giant. Josh is younger, and smaller; but his sweet and stubborn brother thinks in a way that would be more typical of a small child. They are both dealing with changes to their newly blended, Muslim family. So Josh looks after Jadran and they both adjust. When the brothers find an injured young crane, Jadran wants to bring...
13) Listen
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Description
The lives of three troubled people--middle-aged schizophrenic Carrie, orphaned eighteen-year-old Will, and fourteen-year-old Kurt--intersect unexpectedly in this story told in alternating viewpoints.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Cynnie has had to deal with her mother's alcoholism and stream of boyfriends all her life, but when her grandparents take custody of her brother, who has Down Syndrome, Cynnie becomes self-destructive and winds up in court-mandated Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
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