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• Wonder

  Palacio, R. J,

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  "August Pullman was born with a facial deformity that, up until now, prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid -- but his classmates can't get…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Show Me a Sign

  LeZotte, Ann Clare,

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  "It is 1805 and 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 recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Out of My Mind

  Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills),

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  "Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school--but no one knows it."

• Farther Than the Moon

  Lackey, Lindsay,

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  "Thirteen-year-old Houston and his younger brother Robbie dream of becoming astronauts, but when Houston is accepted to the Junior Astronaut Recruitment Program he realizes that Robbie's dream may not be achievable due to his cerebral palsy, so he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish

  Cartaya, Pablo

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  "After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mother takes him and his younger brother, who has Down syndrome, to Puerto Rico to visit relatives they do not remember or have never met, and while there Marcus starts searching for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Song for a Whale

  Kelly, Lynne,

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  "Twelve-year-old Iris and her grandmother, both deaf, drive from Texas to Alaska armed with Iris's plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with other whales."

• The Distance Between Me and the Cherry Tree

  Peretti, Paola

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  "When nine-year-old Mafalda learns she will go blind in six months from Stargardt Disease, she needs the help of family and friends to retain what is essential to her."

• Mockingbird

  Erskine, Kathryn

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  "Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father."

• Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

  Bowling, Dusti

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  "New friends and a mystery help Aden, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges."

• Cyclone

  Cronin, Doreen,

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  "Blaming herself when the cousin she dragged onto a roller coaster falls into a coma, Nora struggles with unendurable guilt and tries to help when her cousin awakens with challenging disabilities."

• Forget Me Not

  Terry, Ellie,

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  "When her mother breaks up with yet another boyfriend, Calliope meets Jinsong at her latest middle school, who becomes her friend despite her Tourette syndrome and the embarrassment it can cause."

• The View From Saturday

  Konigsburg, E. L.

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  "Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who choses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition."

• Fish in a Tree

  Hunt, Lynda Mullaly

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  "Ally's greatest fear is that everyone will find out she is as dumb as they think she is because she still doesn't know how to read."

• Air

  Roe, Monica, 1978-

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  "Twelve-and-a-half year old Emelyn Ethrige lives with her widowed father in South Carolina, dreams of wheelchair motocross, and makes custom chair bags trying to earn enough money to buy a serious set of wheels."

• Brave Like That

  Stoddard, Lindsey,

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  "Eleven-year-old Cyrus knows he is not cut out to be a football hero or fireman like his adopted father, but it takes a skittish stray dog to teach him that he, too, can be brave."

• Wonderstruck

  a Novel in Words and Pictures

  Selznick, Brian

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  "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."

• The Storm Runner

  Cervantes, J. C. (Jennifer C.)

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  "To prevent the Mayan gods from battling each other and destroying the world, thirteen-year-old Zane must unravel an ancient prophecy, stop an evil god, and discover how the physical disability that makes him reliant on a cane also connects him to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Collectors

  West, Jacqueline, 1979-

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  "Overlooked in class, a hearing-impaired boy who collects lost or discarded trinkets discovers a dangerous underground world full of stolen wishes and the people who collect them."