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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Sixteen-year-old Hope must defend her developmentally disabled older brother (who has not spoken a word since he was nine) when he is accused of murdering a beloved high school baseball coach.
Sixteen-year-old Hope must defend her developmentally disabled brother (who has not spoken a word since he was nine) when he is accused of murdering a beloved high school baseball coach.
42) Away to me, Moss
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
While trying to deal with the possibility that her parents will separate, ten-year-old Zanna becomes involved in working with a spirited sheep dog that belongs to the stroke patient her mother is helping to rehabilitate.
47) Rosa's Parrot
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Rosa is hard of hearing and she relies on her parrot, Pico, to repeat things loudly for her, but sometimes Pico takes advantage of Rosa to create mischief.
Author
Series
Maggie Valley series volume 1
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In the early 1960s, twelve-year-old songwriter Livy Two Weems dreams of seeing the world beyond the Maggie Valley, North Carolina, holler where she lives in poverty with her parents and eight brothers and sisters, but understands that she must put family first.
55) When pigs fly
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Thirteen-year-old Buddy Rae and her best friend Jiniwin do everything together--taking care of Buddy's slow younger sister, "parenting" egg babies, talking about boys, and dealing with Buddy's family move to a farm outside Turnback, Missouri.
57) The raging quiet
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Suspicious of sixteen-year-old Marnie, a newcomer to their village, the residents accuse her of witchcraft when she discovers that the village madman is not crazy but deaf and she begins to communicate with him through hand gestures.