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2013
Lean, Sarah
A Dog Called Homeless
Fifth-grader Cally Louise Fisher stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates.
202 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
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2013
Mazer, Harry.
Somebody Please Tell Me Who I Am
Wounded in Iraq while his Army unit is on convoy and treated for many months for traumatic brain injury, the first person Ben remembers from his earlier life is his autistic brother.
148 p. 2012
Teen Fiction Book
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2012
Bauer, Joan.
Close to Famous
Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.
250 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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2012
Van Draanen, Wendelin
The Running Dream
When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.
336 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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2012
Selznick, Brian
Wonderstruck : a Novel in Words and Pictures
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
637 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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2011
Sonnenblick, Jordan
After Ever After
Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa. [Middle School]
260 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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2011
John, Antony
Five Flavors of Dumb
Eighteen-year-old Piper becomes the manager for her classmates' popular rock band, called Dumb, giving her the chance to prove her capabilities to her parents and others, if only she can get the band members to get along. [Teen]
337 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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2010
Baskin, Nora Raleigh
Anything but Typical
Jason, a twelve-year-old autistic boy who wants to become a writer, relates what his life is like as he tries to make sense of his world. [Middle School]
195 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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2010
Stork, Francisco X.
Marcelo in the Real World
Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm. [Teen]
312 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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2009
Friesen, Jonathan
Jerk, California
Plagued by Tourette's syndrome and a stepfather who despises him, Sam meets an old man in his small Minnesota town who sends him on a road trip designed to help him discover the truth about his life. [Teen]
327 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book
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2009
Connor, Leslie
Waiting for Normal
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York. [Middle School]
290 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book
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2008
Rorby, Ginny
Hurt Go Happy
When thirteen-year-old Joey Willis, deaf since the age of six, meets Dr. Charles Mansell and his chimpanzee Sukari, who use sign language, her world blooms with possibilities but that of the chimp begins to narrow. [Teen]
267 p. 2007
Teen Fiction Book
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2008
Zimmer, Tracie Vaughn
Reaching for Sun
Josie, who lives with her mother and grandmother and has cerebral palsy, befriends a boy who moves into one of the rich houses behind her old farmhouse. [Middle School]
181 p. 2007
Children's Fiction Book
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2007
Lord, Cynthia
Rules
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic. [Middle School]
200 p. 2006
Children's Fiction Book
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2007
Sachar, Louis
Small Steps
Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track. [Teen]
257 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book
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2006
Fusco, Kimberly Newton
Tending to Grace
After years of taking care of an emotionally unstable mother, Cornelia is turned upside-down when her mother suddenly takes off with a boyfriend and leaves her to stay with her Aunt Agatha, a woman who doesn't need nor want any help at all.[Middle School]
167 p. 2004
Teen Fiction Book
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2006
Rapp, Adam
Under the Wolf, Under the Dog
Steve is in a facility called Burnstone Grove. It's a place for kids who are addicts, like Shannon Lynch, who can stick $1.87 in change up his nose, or for kids who have tried to commit suicide, like Silent Starla, whom Steve is getting a crush on. But Steve doesn't really fit in either group. He used to go to a gifted school. So why is he being held at Burnstone Grove? [Teen]
310 p. 2004
Teen Fiction Book
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2005
Ryan, Pam Muñoz
Becoming Naomi León
When Naomi's absent mother resurfaces to claim her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her great-grandmother and younger brother in search of her father. [Middle School]
246 p. 2004
Children's Fiction Book
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2005
Abeel, Samantha
My Thirteenth Winter : a Memoir
Abeel tells her own story of living with and overcoming dyscalculia, a math-related learning disability. She describes how her life was affected by her learning disability before and after she was diagnosed, and the way her peers, her family, and her teachers treated her. [Teen]
203 p. 2003
Teen Nonfiction Book
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2004
Mass, Wendy
A Mango-shaped Space : a Novel
Afraid that she is crazy, thirteen-year-old Mia, who sees a special color with every letter, number, and sound, keeps this a secret until she becomes overwhelmed by school, changing relationships, and the loss of something important to her. [Middle School]
220 p. 2003
Children's Fiction Book
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