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By Rafael López, Sonia Sotomayor. 2019
By Allen Say. 2017
An imagined biography of James Castle--a deaf, autistic artist--whose exceptional talent was recognized later in life. Despite mistreatment and being…
misunderstood, James presents his personal view of the world through art that now hangs in major museums throughout the world. For grades 2-4. 2017By Courtney Sheinmel, Jennifer A. Bell. 2015
Stella gets a chance to audition for her favorite television show when she meets a casting director who thinks she…
is perfect for the role. She rehearses her lines until she knows the part by heart, but the audition does not go as planned. For grades 3-6. 2015By Courtney Sheinmel, Jennifer A. Bell. 2014
Eight-year-old Stella finds it is not easy or fun to keep secrets. One secret involves her sister Penny, and another…
is about school and her best friend. For grades 3-6. 2014By Greg Call, Marianne Malone, Gina Triplett. 2010
On a sixth-grade field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago, Ruthie and Jack discover a small magic key that…
shrinks them to fit into the Thorne Rooms--minidioramas from different eras. But Ruthie and Jack are not the first visitors to explore inside these tiny rooms. For grades 4-7. 2010By Cherry Cheva. 2009
Overscheduled high school senior Kate is surprised when a computer-generated twin abruptly appears in her room. Kate takes the opportunity…
to let her other self socialize while she concentrates on getting into Yale but soon realizes that she is losing an important part of her life. For grades 6-9. 2009By Holly Robinson Peete, Ryan Elizabeth Peete, Shane Evans. 2010
A girl tells what it is like living with her twin brother who has autism and sometimes finds it hard…
to communicate with words, but who, in most ways, is just like any other boy. Includes authors' note about autism. For preschool-grade 2By Jane O'Connor, Emily Arnold McCully. 1987
By Suana Verelst, Elizabeth Suneby. 2013
By Rosemary Wells. 2004
Explores the exciting world of kindergarten, progressing month by month through the school year. Includes holiday and seasonal information, poems,…
and rhymes. Describes learning activities such as adopting a tree, performing on musical instruments, measuring, and playing a variation of the animal/mineral/vegetable game. For preschool-grade 2. 2004By Marion Dane Bauer, Marion Bauer. 2004
Nine-year-old Sarah usually loves summer vacation. But when her best friend turns ten and joins the Double-Digit Club ahead of…
her, Sarah is lonely and heartbroken. Sarah enjoys spending time with an elderly blind neighbor until a mistake of Sarah's threatens that relationship, too. For grades 3-6. 2004By Nikki Grimes, Christopher Myers. 2002
Tough students at a Bronx high school reveal their innermost thoughts, dreams, and fears during the monthly English class's Open-Mike…
Fridays. Through their expressions of rap, free verse, and rhymes, the students learn they are more alike than they are different. For junior and senior high readers. Coretta Scott King Award. 2002By Frank Deford, Sourcebooks. 2002
Summer, 1954; Baltimore. Fourteen-year-old Christy meets a wealthy and beautiful twenty-three-year-old neighbor named Kathryn. She has been paralyzed and confined…
to an iron lung due to polio, yet helps Christy master his swimming technique and cope with growing up. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2002By Bill Dodds, Judith Hurt. 1993
Charlie, eleven, faces some challenges--pitching for the baseball team, asking a girl to the school dance, and wanting to be…
accepted by the guys in a local gang. All these things are complicated by his feelings about his older sister with Down syndrome. For grades 4-7. 1993By Isaac Millman. 1998
By Patricia Calvert. 1994
David and Richie have been in lots of foster homes, because their parents are unable to take care of them.…
Now they are going to the Birks. On the way, David tells Richie everything will be okay, and each hopes this time David will be right. For a while everything is just fine at the Birks, even Richie's allergies. Then Richie has a reaction to his school lunch, and life is never the same. For grades 4-7By Ann Clare LeZotte. 2020
1805. Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates…
in a shared sign language. But a scientist determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness decides that she makes the perfect live specimen--and kidnaps her. For grades 4-7. 2020By Betty Ren Wright, Ronald Himler. 2003
Although a blizzard prevents his cousins from visiting for his birthday, a disappointed Billy ends up having a very special…
day when his teacher and classmates must stay overnight at his family's house to wait out the snowstormBy Avi, Rachel Vail. 2005
Twelve-year-old New York City twins Meg and Edward have nothing in common, so they are just as shocked as everyone…
else when Meg's hopes for popularity and Edward's mischievous schemes coincidentally collide in a hilarious showdown. For grades 5-8By Mason Deaver. 2019
When Ben comes out as non-binary, they're thrown out of the house and move in with their older sister, Hannah.…
Struggling with an anxiety disorder, Ben tries to keep a low profile. But then Ben meets Nathan and everything changes. Strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2019