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  • The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes

    The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

    Stephanie Oakes

    A handless teen escapes from a cult, only to find herself in juvenile detention and suspected of knowing who murdered her cult leader.

  • The Science of Breakable Things by Tae Keller

    The Science of Breakable Things

    Tae Keller

    Middle schooler Natalie's year-long assignment to answer a question using the scientific process leads to truths about her mother's depression and her own cultural identity.

  • The Skin I'm In by Sharon Flake

    The Skin I'm In

    Sharon Flake

    Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.

  • The Someday Birds by Sally J. Pla

    The Someday Birds

    Sally J. Pla

    Charlie, twelve, who has autism and obsessive compulsive disorder, must endure a cross-country trip with his siblings and a strange babysitter to visit their father, who will undergo brain surgery.

  • The Sorta Sisters by Adrian Fogelin

    The Sorta Sisters

    Adrian Fogelin

    In Florida, Anna Casey lives with what she hopes is the last in a long line of foster mothers, and Mica Delano lives with her father on their small boat, and when the two of them begin corresponding, they discover they have a lot in common.

  • The Sound of All Things by Myron Uhlberg

    The Sound of All Things

    Myron Uhlberg

    A hearing boy and his deaf parents from Brooklyn enjoy the rides, food, and sights of 1930's Coney Island where the father longs to know about how everything sounds and his son tries to interpret the noisy surroundings through sign language and a wealth of new words learned from a trip to the library.

  • The Stars at Oktober Bend by Glenda Millard

    The Stars at Oktober Bend

    Glenda Millard

    Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone. Something inside Alice is broken: she remembers words but struggles to speak them. Still, Alice knows words are for sharing, so she pins them to posters in tucked-away places: railway waiting rooms, fish-and-chip shops, quiet corners. Manny is sixteen, with a scar from shoulder to elbow. Something inside Manny is broken: he was once a child soldier, forced to do terrible, violent things. But in a new land with new people who will care for him, he spends time exploring on foot. And in his pocket, he carries a poem he scooped up. And he knows the words by heart. When Manny and Alice meet, their relationship brings the beginning of love and healing.

  • The Storm by Marc Harshman

    The Storm

    Marc Harshman

    Though confined to a wheelchair, Johnathan faces the terror of a tornado all by himself and saves the lives of the horses on the family farm. Full-color illustrations.

  • The Storm Runner by Jennifer Cervantes

    The Storm Runner

    Jennifer Cervantes

    To prevent the Mayan gods from battling each other and destroying the world, thirteen-year-old Zane must unravel an ancient prophecy, stop an evil god, and discover how the physical disability that makes him reliant on a cane also connects him to his father and his ancestry.

  • The Storyteller's Beads by Jane Kurtz

    The Storyteller's Beads

    Jane Kurtz

    During the political strife and famine of the 1980's, two Ethiopian girls, one Christian and the other Jewish and blind, struggle to overcome many difficulties, including their prejudices about each other, as they make the dangerous journey out of Ethiopia.

  • The Stranger and the Red Rooster / El forastero y el gallo rojo by Víctor Villaseñor and Gabriela Baeza Ventura

    The Stranger and the Red Rooster / El forastero y el gallo rojo

    Víctor Villaseñor and Gabriela Baeza Ventura

    When a tall, thin stranger with a horribly scarred face comes to Carlbad, California, everyone is afraid of him until he and his big red rooster make them laugh.

  • The Summer of the Gypsy Moths by Sara Pennypacker

    The Summer of the Gypsy Moths

    Sara Pennypacker

    A foster child named Angel and twelve-year-old Stella, who are living with Stella's great-aunt Louise at the Linger Longer Cottage Colony on Cape Cod, secretly assume responsibility for the vacation rentals when Louise unexpectedly dies and the girls are afraid of being returned to the foster care system.

  • The Survival Guide for Kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders (And Their Parents) by Elizabeth Verdick and Elizabeth Reeve M.D.

    The Survival Guide for Kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders (And Their Parents)

    Elizabeth Verdick and Elizabeth Reeve M.D.

    This positive, straightforward book offers kids with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) their own comprehensive resource for both understanding their condition and finding tools to cope with the challenges they face every day. Some children with ASDs are gifted; others struggle academically. Some are more introverted, while others try to be social. Some get "stuck" on things, have limited interests, or experience repeated motor movements like flapping or pacing ("stims"). The Survival Guide for Kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders covers all of these areas, with an emphasis on helping children gain new self-understanding and self-acceptance. Meant to be read with a parent, the book addresses questions ("What's an ASD?" "Why me?") and provides strategies for communicating, making and keeping friends, and succeeding in school. Body and brain basics highlight symptom management, exercise, diet, hygiene, relaxation, sleep, and toileting. Emphasis is placed on helping kids handle intense emotions and behaviors and get support from family and their team of helpers when needed. The book includes stories from real kids, fact boxes, helpful checklists, resources, and a glossary. Sections for parents offer more detailed information.

  • The Truly Brave Princesses by Dolores Brown

    The Truly Brave Princesses

    Dolores Brown

    Princess Nin is a firefighter, Princess Gilda is a supermarket cashier, Princess Agnes is retired, and Princess Liang is in a wheel chair. This gallery of princesses gives visibility to lot of women who do not fit with the traditional conception of a princess. Maybe it’s time to realize that each and every one of us could be a princess.

  • The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten

    The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B

    Teresa Toten

    Adam not only is trying to understand his OCD, while trying to balance his relationship with his divorced parents, but he's also trying to navigate through the issues that teenagers normally face, namely the perils of young love--

  • The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

    The War That Saved My Life

    Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

    A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.

  • The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan

    The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

    Brian Conaghan

    Seventeen-year-old Bobby Seed, the devoted but exhausted primary caregiver for his terminally-ill mother and difficult younger brother, finds respite in a support group and good friends, but must face his mother's impossible choice alone

  • The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf

    The Weight of Our Sky

    Hanna Alkaf

    Amidst the Chinese-Malay conflict in Kuala Lumpur in 1969, sixteen-year-old Melati must overcome prejudice, violence, and her own OCD to find her way back to her mother.

  • The Window by Michael Dorris

    The Window

    Michael Dorris

    When ten-year-old Rayona's Native American mother enters a treatment facility, her estranged father, a Black man, finally introduces her to his side of the family, who are not at all what she expected.

  • The Window by Jeanette Ingold

    The Window

    Jeanette Ingold

    Mandy survived the terrible accident that killed her mother, but she was left blind and alone. Now she lives with relatives she doesn't know, attends a new school, and tries to make friends--all the while struggling to function without sight. Her unpredictable life takes its strangest turn when she begins to hear the oddest things through the window of her attic room. In fact, what she hears--and seems to "see"--are events that happened years ago, before she was even born.

  • The Year I Didn't Eat by Samuel Pollen

    The Year I Didn't Eat

    Samuel Pollen

    Fourteen-year-old Max records his efforts to control his anorexia in a therapist-prescribed journal that also chronicles his parents' difficult relationship and his feelings for a new girl at school, Evie.

  • Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements

    Things Not Seen

    Andrew Clements

    Bobby Phillips is an average fifteen-year-old-boy. Until the morning he wakes up and can't see himself in the mirror. Not blind, not dreaming-Bobby is just plain invisible. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to Bobby's new condition; even his dad the physicist can't figure it out. For Bobby that means no school, no friends, no life. He's a missing person. Then he meets Alicia. She's blind, and Bobby can't resist talking to her, trusting her. But people are starting to wonder where Bobby is. Bobby knows that his invisibility could have dangerous consequences for his family and that time is running out. He has to find out how to be seen again-before it's too late.

  • Things Too Huge to Fix by Saying Sorry by Susan Vaught

    Things Too Huge to Fix by Saying Sorry

    Susan Vaught

    A family mystery leads Dani Beans to investigate the secrets of Ole Miss and the dark history of race relations in Oxford, Mississippi.

  • This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kheryn Callender

    This is Kind of an Epic Love Story

    Kheryn Callender

    Budding screenwriter Nate, sixteen, finds his conviction that happy endings do not happen in real life sorely tested when his childhood best friend and crush, Oliver James Hernandez, moves back to town

  • This Side of Home by Reneé Watson

    This Side of Home

    Reneé Watson

    Twins Nikki and Maya Younger always agreed on most things, but as they head into their senior year they react differently to the gentrification of their Portland, Oregon neighborhood and the new--white--family that moves in after their best friend and her mother are evicted.

 

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