Fiction
Running on empty
S. E. Durrant
jFICTION Durrant S. E.
Fiction
After his grandfather dies, eleven-year-old JJ, a talented runner, assumes new responsibilities including taking care of his intellectually-challenged parents and figuring out how bills get paid.
Marcus Vega doesn't speak Spanish
Pablo Cartaya
jFICTION Cartaya Pablo
Fiction
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 his father, who left their family ten years ago and is somewhere on the island.
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A dog like Daisy
Kristin O'Donnell Tubb
jFICTION Tubb Kristin
Fiction
Daisy has only ten weeks to prove her usefulness or else be sent back to the pound. Yet if she goes back, who will protect Colonel Victor from his PTSD attacks? Or save the littler human, Micah, from those infernal ear muzzles he calls earphones? What if no one ever adopts her again? Determined to become the elite protector the colonel needs, Daisy vows to ace the service dog test. She'll accept the ridiculous leash and learn to sit, heel, shake, even do your business, Daisy when told to. But Daisy must first learn how to face her own fears from the past or risk losing the family she's so desperate to guard -- again.
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Save me a seat
Sarah Weeks
jFICTION Weeks Sarah
Fiction
Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives.
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Focused
Alyson Gerber
jFICTION Gerber Alyson
Fiction
"Twelve-year-old Clea wants to do her homework, follow instructions, pay attention in school, and play chess on the school team, but somehow she cannot focus on whatever is in front of her, and the other kids at school are starting to notice and make fun of her; when her worried parents take her to be tested she finds out that she has ADHD (only without the hyperactivity)--and with help from the psychiatrist who seems to really understand her, she is determined to learn how to focus." --
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Insignificant events in the life of a cactus
Dusti Bowling
jFICTION Bowling Dusti
Fiction
New friends and a mystery help Aven, 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.
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Fish in a tree
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
jFICTION Hunt Lynda
Fiction
"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"--
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Wonder
R. J Palacio
jFICTION Palacio, R. J.
Fiction
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
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Out of my mind
Sharon M. (Sharon Mills) Draper
jFICTION Draper, Sharon M.
Fiction
Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
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Roll with it
Jamie Sumner
jFICTION Sumner Jamie
Fiction
Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease.
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