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81) As brave as you
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English
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"When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires--literally"--
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Blind sixteen-year-old Parker Grant navigates friendships and romantic relationships, including a run-in with a boy who previously broke her heart, while coping with her father's recent death"--
Parker Grant doesn't need 20/20 vision to see right through you. Don't treat her any differently just because she's blind, and never take advantage. There will be no second chances-- just ask Scott Kilpatrick, the boy who broke her heart. Parker is staying...
84) The printer
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Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
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A boy recalls the day his deaf father saved everyone's life when fire broke out at the newspaper printing plant where he worked.
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English
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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.
89) Of human bondage
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English
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From a tormented orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. His cravings take him to Paris at age eighteen to try his hand at art, then back to London to study medicine. But even so, nothing can sate his nagging hunger for experience. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever.
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Publisher
Greenwillow
Pub. Date
c1983.
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English
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Charles is the new boy in the first-grade class, and he is blind. His classmates want to be helpful. Should they protect Charles or treat him like everybody else? No one knows for sure.Then one day Danny, Charles, and Anna Maria get into trouble. Can Charles take charge and help his friends?
91) The raging quiet
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
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Suspicious of sixteen-year-old Marnie, a newcomer to their village, the residents accuse her of witchcraft when she discovers the village madman is not crazy, but deaf, and begins to communicate with him through hand gestures.
95) Junkyard wonders
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Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
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Inspired by a teacher who believes each of them is a genius, a class of special-needs students invents something that could convince the whole school they are justifiably proud to be "Junkyard Wonders."
96) Shark girl
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Publisher
Candlewick
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future.
97) Bouncing back
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Orphaned thirteen year-old Carlos learns what it truly means to be a teammate when he must help save his new wheelchair basketball team's gym from destruction.
99) All in pieces
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Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A girl struggles to take care of her younger brother with special needs while confronting her own anger issues"--
100) Of sound mind
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Tired of interpreting for his deaf family and resentful of their reliance on him, high school senior Theo finds support and understanding from Ivy, a new student who also has a deaf parent.
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