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Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
164 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Ruby Lu's deaf cousin, Flying Duck, and her parents come from China to live with her, Ruby finds life challenging as she adjusts to her new family, tries to mend her rocky relationship with her friend Emma, and faces various adventures in summer school.
8) Going bovine
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
480 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After being diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob (aka mad cow) disease, disaffected teenager Cameron Smith 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) Annie and Helen
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, focusing on their relationship and interspersed with letters that Annie wrote home detailing Helen's early communication progress.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
87 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1932, a twelve-year-old girl who lost her sight in an accident keeps a diary, recorded by her twin sister, in which she describes life at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
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.
15) Things not seen
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it.