Disabilities

A Corner of the Universe (Unabridged)

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Hattie Owen prefers to be steeped in the familiarity of her small-town life than to think about the vast world beyond her own. Her family's boarding house is where she feels most at home, with its eccentric tenants and predictable routines, so different from the controlling and repressive home of her well-to-do grandparents who live nearby.

Author: 
Ann M. Martin
Grade Level: 
Middle
Lexile: 
750L
Length: 
04:32
A Corner of the Universe (Unabridged)

Heartbeat (Unabridged)

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Run run run. That's what twelve-year-old Annie loves to do. When she's barefoot and running, she can hear her heart beating...Thump-THUMP, thump-THUMP.

Author: 
Sharon Creech
Grade Level: 
Elementary
Lexile: 
520L
Length: 
01:29
Heartbeat (Unabridged)

Alchemy and Meggy Swann (Unabridged)

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Fans of Karen Cushman's witty, satisfying novels will welcome Meggy Swann, newly come to London with her only friend, a goose named Louise.

Author: 
Karen Cushman
Grade Level: 
Elementary
Lexile: 
810L
Length: 
04:24
Alchemy and Meggy Swann (Unabridged)

Flowers for Algernon (Unabridged)

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Charlie Gordon knows that he isn't very bright. At 32, he mops floors in a bakery and earns just enough to get by. Three evenings a week, he studies at a center for mentally challenged adults. But all of this is about to change for Charlie. As part of a daring experiment, doctors are going to perform surgery on Charlie's brain.

Author: 
Daniel Keyes
Grade Level: 
High
Lexile: 
910L
Length: 
08:59
Flowers for Algernon (Unabridged)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Unabridged)

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Fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone has Asperger's Syndrome, a condition similar to autism. He doesn't like to be touched or meet new people, he cannot make small talk, and he hates the colors brown and yellow. He is a math whiz with a very logical brain who loves solving puzzles that have definite answers.

Author: 
Mark Haddon
Grade Level: 
High
Lexile: 
1180L
Length: 
06:03
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Unabridged)

The View from Saturday (Unabridged)

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Did Mrs. Olinsky choose the four members of the sixth grade Academic Bowl Team, or did they choose her--and one another? Four stories-within-in-a-story, interspersed with the ongoing narrative of the team's triumphant march to the state championship, introduce each member of the team in his own her own voice, and bring the dynamics of the group into focus.

Author: 
E. L. Konigsburg
Grade Level: 
Elementary
Lexile: 
870L
Length: 
04:47
The View from Saturday (Unabridged)