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Comeback kids volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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Brainy Scott Parry, a great kicker who otherwise struggles with football, and star quarterback Chris Conlan, who has dyslexia, team up to help each other succeed in both football and school.
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"Damaged finds Mary DiNunzio, partner at the all-female law firm of Rosato & DiNunzio, embroiled in one of her most heartbreaking cases yet. Suing the Philadelphia school district to get help for a middle school boy with emotional issues, Mary ends up becoming the guardian ad litem of her minor client. As she goes up against Nick Machiavelli, her opposing counsel and the dark prince of South Philly lawyers who will use any means necessary to defeat...
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Hank Zipzer volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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Fearing that he may be failing fourth grade, Hank enlists the help of his friends, and even his annoying younger sister, in an effort to prevent his parents from attending a parent-teacher conference
Inspired by the true life experiences of Henry Winkler, aka The Fonz, whose undiagnosed dyslexia made him a classic childhood underachiever, the Hank Zipzer series is about the high-spirited and funny adventures of a boy with learning differences
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Hank Zipzer volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Inspired by his own experiences with undiagnosed dyslexia, actor/director Henry Winkler presents this new series about the high-spirited and funny adventures of a fourth-grader with learning differences. When Hank Zipper has to write an essay on what he did over the summer, he decides instead to show what he did. Illustrations.
12) May B: a novel
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.
13) Pinch me
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2017.
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After another night of girls, music and booze, seventeen-year-old pop star Darius Zaire falls out of bed and lands on the cruddy floor of his old bedroom. No mansion, no luxury cars, no platinum records. Now he's just ordinary Darren Zegers. Some kind of nightmare has erased everything that happened to change Darren the dweeb into Darius the multimillionaire. Now Darius has to face an ordinary day in the twelfth grade, suffering through remedial...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply thoughtful memoir of the lifelong effects of stardom and the struggle to become whole. Henry Winkler, launched into prominence as "The Fonz" in the beloved Happy Days, has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny, and widely-regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood (though he would be the first to tell you that it's simply not the...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"In this title, readers learn common symptoms and behaviors of dyslexia and how it affects kids at school and in relationships. Text includes suggestions on how to be a kind and respectful friend to someone who has dyslexia and appropriate activities kids can enjoy together. A famous person who has overcome the challenges of dyslexia is highlighted."--Provided by publisher.
16) Black Beauty
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 11
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"Black Beauty is a perennial children's favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. It is a moralistic tale of the life of the horse related in the form of an autobiography, describing the world through the eyes of the creature. In taking this anthropomorphic approach, the author Anna Sewell broke new literary ground and her effective storytelling ability makes it very easy for the reader to accept the premise that...
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Family tree volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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In 1977 in Princeton, Dana's daughter seven-year-old Francie is struggling to keep her dyslexia a secret from her teachers and family, and even the thought of high school and college is part of the remote and unattainable future.
18) The wild book
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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In early twentieth-century Cuba, bandits terrorize the countryside as a young farm girl struggles with dyslexia. Based on the life of the author's grandmother.
20) Fish in a tree
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
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"Ally's greatest fear is that everyone will find out she is as dumb as they think she is because she still doesn't know how to read"--Provided by publisher.
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