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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
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The crippled son of a powerful nobleman in fourteenth-century England sets out to prove his courage and his right to be recognized by the King.
In England during the Middle Ages, a courageous young boy who suddenly loses the use of his legs is forced to learn how to deal with his new disability.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
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"Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend to it, a change comes over her and her life. She meets and befriends a local boy, the talented Dickon, and comes across her sickly cousin Colin who had been kept hidden from her. Between them, the three children work astonishing magic in themselves and those around...
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Series
Giver quartet volume 2
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
5) The monument
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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Thirteen-year-old Rocky, self-conscious about the braces on her leg, has her life changed by the remarkable artist who comes to her small Kansas town to design a war memorial.
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Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Explores the history of American Sign Language and deaf culture, including ongoing controversies within the deaf community today. / Contents: Language for the eyes -- Seeing words -- A living language -- Language under siege -- Keys to communication.
9) Going bovine
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 17
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Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld 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.
10) Helen Keller
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Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A biography, told using excerpts from her own writings, of the woman who successfully dealt with her own disabilities while trying to better the lives of other deaf and blind people.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Having survived being blinded and shipwrecked on a tiny Caribbean island with the old Black man Timothy, twelve-year-old white boy Phillip is rescued and hopes to regain his sight with an operation. Alternate chapters follow the life of Timothy from his days as a young cabin boy.
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Pub. Date
1980
Description
The Story of My Life, is Helen Keller's autobiography detailing her early life, especially her experiences with Anne Sullivan. The book is dedicated to inventor Alexander Graham Bell. The dedication reads, "To ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Who has taught the deaf to speak and enabled the listening ear to hear speech from the Atlantic to the Rockies, I dedicate this Story of My Life."
18) Bad Girl Creek
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When a beloved aunt dies, leaving her with a flower farm, Phoebe Thomas takes in three roommates to help run the farm. As the women bond in friendship, their lives change. Phoebe, confined to a wheelchair, finds herself for the first time; the others overcome a job loss, a romantic break-up, and an eviction.