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Brides of Lancaster county volume 2
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As a child, Rebekah Stoltzfus suffered a freak accident that left her legs paralyzed. Now, confined to a wheelchair, she feels she'll never measure up to the expectations of her Pennsylvania Amish community that a woman should marry and raise a family. She longs to be loved, yet she prays for a way to be self-supporting. Daniel Beachy wants to court Rebekah, but she believes that she is a burden and has convinced herself that love is not for her....
5) Tangerine
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
7) Freckles
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Orphaned and maimed, Freckles' bitterness about his fate is lessened when he is hired to guard a stretch of lumber in the wild Limberlost, and, after meeting the beautiful "Swamp Angel," he determines to find out about his past.
8) From Anna
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Harper & Row
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When the family moves from Germany to Canada in the 1930's, a nine-year-old girl discovers the reason for her awkwardness and apparent inability to do anything right.
9) Hannah
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Hannah, a blind girl living in the late nineteenth century, doesn't go to school, until a new teacher tells her about the Braille method of reading for the blind.
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Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Unhappy because he cannot sing with his schoolmates in the Christmas pageant, Jamie, a mute boy, is allowed to play a shepherd. A blizzard necessitates the cancellation of the pageant, but Jamie's imagination and loving nature find a special use for his shepherd robe and crook.
13) Me too
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Lippincott
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Hoping to expunge neighborhood prejudice and to do something everyone else has failed to do, a twelve year-old desperately tries to teach her retarded twin.
14) Stuck in neutral
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
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Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him.
17) Here comes Kate!
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Raintree Steck-Vaughn
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A girl in a wheelchair learns when to go fast and when to slow down.
18) 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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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
When brain surgery makes a mouse into a genius, dull-witted Charlie Gordon wonders if it might also work for him. With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental...
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