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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In Classroom Six, second left down the hall, Henry has been on the lookout for a friend. A friend who shares. A friend who listens. Maybe even a friend who likes things to stay the same and all in order, as Henry does. But on a day full of too close and too loud, when nothing seems to go right, will Henry ever find a friend--or will a friend find him? With insight and warmth, this heartfelt story from the perspective of a boy on the autism spectrum...
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Meet a remarkable young man. Max doesn't communicate like we do. But he communicates better than we do about the most important things. Max doesn't think like we do. But his actions reflect deep spiritual truths. With candor and wit, Emily Colson shares about her personal battles and heartbreak when, as a suddenly single mother, she discovers her only child has autism. Emily illuminates the page with imagery-making you laugh, making you cry, and inspiring...
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Alone on a bridge staring into the dark water...
He was not born Noah Waters, but constant rejection often has a way of encouraging one to walk away from everything they have known while giving birth to the person they are meant to be. This is Noah's story...
I was a sixteen-year-old runaway when I worked my way to the edge of the Jackson River Bridge and peered at the moonlit water swirling below. To be fair, I wasn't an ordinary sixteen-year-old....
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
304 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Hannah Sharpe, an eleven-year-old cartoonist with Autism spectrum disorder, uses her curiosity, creativity, and amazing memory to investigate her family's newest Airbnb resident.
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Harry's world is changing. He's sixteen with a job and a bank account, which is just as well as he needs the dosh to buy more Thomas the Tank Engine DVDs and kit kats. But how will Harry cope with the daunting prospect of a residential school placement? Can visits to see Peckham's outstanding traffic lights and Aldershot's world class charity shops ease his stress? Or will his blossoming romance with Bernadette prove to be the real help he needs to...
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Now featuring an ebook exclusive Christmas chapter! 'Warm, uplifting & important...a very VERY special book' Marian Keyes 'Beautifully moving and uplifting' Cecelia Ahern Meet Tom... Or Dr O'Grady, as he used to be called. When you pass him on the street, most people don't even give him a second glance. You see, Tom isn't living his best life. Burdened by grief, he's only got his loyal dog, Bette Davis, for company and a rucksack containing his...
10) The Book
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This book is not The Book. The Book is in this book. And The Book in this book is both the goodie and the baddie.
Bonnie is five. She wants to bury The Book because it is a demon that should go to hell. Penny, Bonnie's mother, does bury The Book, but every day she digs it up and writes in it. John, Bonnie's father, doesn't live with them anymore. But he still likes to write in it from time to time. Ted, Bonnie's stepfather, would like to write in...
11) Lester Lies Down
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Lester Gordon is an odd man, just like everybody else.
He's on the lower end of the spectrum, walking unnoticed in the world, just like so many others.
After he loses his wife and the mother of his young children to cancer, he decides to sell his family's car wash and become a hospice nurse. He wants to comfort the dying just as his wife's hospice nurse had comforted their family. All went according to plan until Lester's first day of attending patients...
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Set over four decades, When Tender is the Heart is a sensitive story about an autistic boy who longs to have a life like any normal child. And despite his good intentions when he becomes an adult, hardship is never far behind as he sets out to create a life for himself, establish relationships with others, and take on potential jobs. One day he will be forced to confront his painful childhood past head-on. But will his heart find the closure it's...
13) To the Mountain
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Eleven—year—old Marshall lives in a remote juvenile center in Colorado, where he is bullied by the other boys, misunderstood by all of the staff except Leslie, and so overwhelmed by the sounds and smells in the cafeteria that getting his lunch is a daily terror. During a blizzard, an unexpected mishap for Marshall and Leslie leads to Marshall's disappearance into the wilderness. His father, Jace, knows that Marshall has gone searching for a secret...
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A lighthearted, leisurely escape to Lake Chatuge where Georgia mountain exploits and erupting secrets trail the ricocheting course of a neurodiverse romance.
Despite her insecurities, newly single biographer Eli Sledge has landed the ultimate celebrity client. Soon after, Eli realizes she may have jettisoned a neuro-incompatible marriage for all the wrong reasons, and along the way, conjured a determined enemy. As soon as she believes that her...
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The main character of the book, an eccentric Aleph McNaught, is at a crossroads in what he sees as a meaningless life. Abused as a child, he turns to drugs and ends up locked up in an asylum before launching into a new and wildlife populated by a host of multiple personalities.
McNaught, as narrator, invites the reader on a psychotic ride into his crazy headspace, while commenting on the state of a fictitious society.
His goal is to tilt the axis...
16) Caliburnus
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A Mother's Dream
Vivian Rees never thought she'd be the mother of a child with special needs, let alone one with autism. But that was who she became when her young boy, Jesse, was born with it. Her little family's collective world revolved around his needs, and her drive, her every waking moment, centered around helping him, on sparing him pain, on somehow finding a solution to fix it.
But there was no miracle cure. "Go home and grieve," the psychologist...
17) Not Sleeping
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It is said that over 70% of special needs marriages fail.
This is the story of one. Not Sleeping depicts a suburban New York couple, Josh and Claudia Sherman, separated though not yet divorced. As they struggle to navigate their way through the painful process of uncoupling, they also must continue to co-manage the difficult demands of their nine-year old autistic daughter. It was Josh who decided to leave the marriage. But, in an unanticipated turn...
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Mary Crow is running for DA, trying to unseat the incumbent George Turpin. In mid-campaign a stray dog digs up shocking new evidence that breathes life into a decades-old murder of a nine-year-old girl. Pisgah County thinks the most likely suspect is Zack Collier, an autistic man who's also the son of one of Mary Crow's campaign volunteers. When the police start harassing Zack yet again, his mother begs Mary for help. Against the advice of her campaign...
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Coming of age in rural Pennsylvania in the late 1940s, Rhue slides into a heart-warming romance with Thomas when her younger brother Hank, who is considered "odd," makes a connection with recent widower George following the death of his wife and life-long love Maggie. Rhue hesitantly becomes a party to this connection and begins to dislike Maggie when she laments the time that already slipped by without the opportunity to know George because of Maggie's...
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In the late 1940s, the minor league Milwaukee Brewers are foundering yet again and manager Arthur Murphy is desperate. When he sees seventeen-year old Mickey Tussler throwing apples into a barrel, he knows he has found the next pitching phenom. But not everyone is so hopeful. Mickey's autism—a disorder still not truly understood even today—has alienated the boy from the world, and he is berated by other players and fans. Mickey faces immense...
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