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42) Counterattack
Author
Series
Robot wars (Sigmund Brouwer) volume 4
Pub. Date
2009
Description
In the first of two adventures set in 2040, fourteen-year-old, wheelchair-bound, virtual reality specialist, Tyce Sanders, finds himself in grave danger on his first trip to Earth, and in the second, Tyce must use all his skills to find a way to stop the slaughter of the governors of the World United Federation.
Author
Series
Aven Green volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Eight-year-old expert soccer player Aven Green learns to share the spotlight and be a good team player when her friend Sujata joins the team.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
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Four students, each with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
47) Ambush
Author
Series
Robot wars (Sigmund Brouwer) volume 3
Pub. Date
2009
Description
"Tyce has to rescue his friend, Director Rawling McTigre, along with three other scientists who are trapped in a cave-in on Mars. He also has to uncover a devious plot that threatens to overtake the spaceship-just as they are nearing the end of their eight-month journey from Mars to Earth"--p. [4] of cover.
48) A sailor returns
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Evan, an eleven-year-old boy in 1914 whose strict father has little time for him, is delighted when his long-lost grandfather returns, relates his many sea adventures, and hobbles around like Evan who has a club foot.
49) Going bovine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 17
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Formats
Description
Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, 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.
50) The Collectors
Author
Series
Collectors (Jacqueline West) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Rescue thought he'd grow up to be a Seeing Eye dog -- it's the family business, after all. When he gets the news that he's better suited to being a service dog, he's worried that he's not up to the task. Then he meets Jessica, a girl whose life is turning out differently than the way she'd imagined it, too. Now Jessica needs Rescue by her side to help her accomplish everyday tasks. And it turns out that Rescue can help Jessica see after all: a way...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In alternating chapters, Caleb and Maggie relate the struggles of being reunited after nearly a year apart when both join a group of teens affected by drunk driving, and finally facing their true feelings for one another.
53) Dachy's deaf
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Dachy wears a hearing aid. But sometimes, when his friends get too noisy, he likes to turn it off to get some peace and quiet. One day, when his hearing aid is off, Dachy falls asleep and ends up floating down the river towards a waterfall and a hungry crocodile. Can his friends rescue him in time?"--
55) Rain reign
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Struggling with Asperger's, Rose shares a bond with her beloved dog, but when the dog goes missing during a storm, Rose is forced to confront the limits of her comfort levels, even if it means leaving her routines in order to search for her pet.
Author
Pub. Date
c2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
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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.
Author
Series
What happened to you? volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Imagine you were asked the same question again and again throughout your life... Imagine if it was a question that didn't bring about the happiest of memories... This is the experience of one-legged Joe, a child who just wants to have fun in the playground... Constantly seen first for his disability, Joe is fed up of only ever being asked about his leg. All he wants to do is play Pirates. But as usual, one after the other, all the children ask him...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Charlie's parents have left him (again). This time they are off to South Africa to help giant golden moles. And Charlie? He's been dumped with his TV-obsessed grandparents. Lonely and curious, Charlie heads to the village of Castle-on-the-Hudson, where a frightened old woman gives him a desperate message-in sign language. When the woman suddenly disappears, Charlie is determined to find answers. Frog, who is Deaf, would rather be solving crimes than...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Resolving to become the world's greatest stand-up comedian despite less-than-funny challenges in his life, wheelchair-bound middle school student Jamie Grimm endures bullying from his mean-spirited cousin and hopes he will be fairly judged when he enters a local comedy contest.
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