Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.
Summary: It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aunt, taking a train to Chicago--but disaster seems to follow her there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y DA BARArmstrong, Mia
Summary: Mia offers a glimpse into the life of a child with Down syndrome.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARMHarbridge, Paul
Summary: "A picture book about a girl who spends the summer with her family at a lake and learns to become more self-reliant."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HARPlourde, Lynn
Summary: A boy with Down syndrome and his dog are best friends, but how will they manage being apart when the boy heads to school for the first time?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, an imprint of Capstone 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PLOBostwick, Marie
Summary: Mary Dell Templeton prefers the quiet charms of Too Much, Texas to the bright lights of Dallas any day. She's relieved to be moving back to her hometown-and bringing her cable TV show, Quintessential Quilting, with her. There are just a couple of wrinkles in her plan. Her son, Howard, who is her talented cohost and color consultant, and who happens to have Down syndrome, wants to stay in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bostwick 2016Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P BOSBostwick, Marie
Summary: Welcome to Too Much--where the women are strong-willed and the men are handsome yet shiftless. Ever since Mary Dell Templeton and her twin sister Lydia Dale were children, their Aunt Velvet has warned them away from local boys. But it's well known that the females in Mary Dell's family have two traits in common--superior sewing skills and a fatal weakness for men. While Lydia Dale grows up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P BOSBodeen, S. A. (Stephanie A.)
Summary: Emma and her father discuss what they will do when the new baby arrives, but they adjust their expectations when he is born with Down syndrome.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Woodbine House 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Social Emo Stuve-Bodeen 1998Edwards, Kim
Summary: On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EDWEdwards, Kim
Summary: On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomson Gale 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EDWGreenwood, T. (Tammy)
Summary: "From the author of Rust & Stardust comes this heartbreaking story, inspired by true events, of how far one mother must go to protect her daughter. Dover, Massachusetts, 1969. Ginny Richardson's heart was torn open when her baby girl, Lucy, born with Down Syndrome, was taken from her. Under pressure from his powerful family, her husband, Ab, sent Lucy away to Willowridge, a special school for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREDoshi, Tishani
Summary: "A captivating and original story of two sisters caught in a moment of transformation, set against the vivid backdrop of modern India. Escaping her failing marriage, Grace Marisola has returned to Pondicherry from the United States to cremate her mother. Once there, she receives an inheritance she could not have expected-a property on the beaches of Madras-and discovers a sister she never knew...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOSCartaya, Pablo
Summary: After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mother takes him and his younger brother, who has Down syndrome, to Puerto Rico to visit relatives they do not remember or have never met, and while there Marcus starts searching for his father, who left their family ten years ago and is somewhere on the island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CARLandvik, Lorna
Summary: Reluctantly agreeing to take care of her nephew, Rich, a thirteen-year-old boy with Down syndrome, while his parents take a vacation, actress Geneva Jordan finds her life turned upside down by the youngster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANSjón
Summary: An elusive fox leads a hunter on a transformative quest, while a naturalist endeavors to build a life for a young woman with Down syndrome whom he rescued from a shipwreck years earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SJOAvis, Heather
Summary: Illustrations and rhyming text introduce Macy, whose conduct and bearing point to a kinder world where differences are celebrated and embraced.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AVIBall, Jesse
Summary: Learning that he does not have long to live and will need to figure out how to provide for his developmentally disabled adult son, a widower signs up as a census taker for a mysterious government bureau and leaves town with his son on a cross-country journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALCarey, Becky.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Creek Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CARGivens, Joy
Summary: Jamie likes to pretend he's a superhero. With his cape and gadgets, he feels like he can face anything. When his picture is chosen to be shown in Times Square for the NDSS Buddy Walk®, his family travels to New York City to see it. As he makes his way through the loud, busy, unfamiliar city, Jamie discovers that he doesn't have all his special tools. But he soon realizes that it isn't what he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Lions 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KINWoloson, Eliza.
Summary: A young boy named Charlie describes the activities he shares with his friend Isabelle, a girl with Down Syndrome.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Woodbine House 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WOLClarkson, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLABranscom, Conni
Summary: The story of seven-year-old Mya, who enjoys being a big sister to her siblings. There's a difference in her family. When brother Kyle is born, she learned from her parents he has Down syndrome, and all the things Mya had dreamed of doing with her new brother seem impossible. As Kyle grows, Mya learns what Down syndrome means for her and her family, she also absorbs the basics of the condition...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Social Emo Branscom 2016O'Hair, Margaret
Summary: "It can be hard to be different--whether because of how you look, where you live, or what you can or can't do. But wouldn't it be boring if we were all the same? Being different is great! Being different is what makes you YOU. This inclusive and empowering picture book from Sofia Sanchez--a young model and actress with Down syndrome--reminds readers how important it is to embrace your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE O'HACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE O'HASummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002