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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team.
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
3) Rules
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.
4) Freckles
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King. Ever since he can remember, Robin, son of Sir John de Bureford, has been told what is expected of him as the son of a nobleman. He must learn the ways of knighthood. But Robin's destiny is changed in one stroke: He falls ill and loses the use of his legs. Fearing a plague, his servants abandon him and Robin is left alone.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
"Young Mary Lennox is left an orphan when her parents die of illness while living abroad. In their absence, Mary is sent to stay under the care of her Uncle in Yorkshire, England. It's there in Misselthwaite Manor that she meets two young boys--a servant named Dickon and her cousin Colin, who lives locked away in the manor due to a disability that leaves him bound in a wheelchair. The trio discover a secret garden hidden in the manor grounds and work...
Author
Series
Arbeit und sozialer Schutz volume Band 43
Publisher
Logos Verlag
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch