Bodeen, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Woodbine House 1998

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Social Emo Stuve-Bodeen 1998

Lee, Marie Myung-Ok

Summary: After moving to a new suburb, a Korean American teen must fight to protect herself and her neurodivergent older brother from a hostile community in this tragic story of bigotry and gun violence.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEE

Wiseman, Ellen Marie

Summary: "Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary -- awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears -- seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WIS

Summary: Two migrant workers, George and Lennie, have been let off a bus miles away from the California farm where they are due to start work. George is a small, dark man with Lennie, his companion, is his opposite, a giant of a man. Overcome with thirst, the two stop in a clearing to camp for the night. As the two converse, it becomes clear that Lennie has a mild mental disability, is deeply devoted to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OF

Lowry, Lois.

Summary: Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Lowry 2003

Wiseman, Ellen Marie

Summary: Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary--awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears--seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a car...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WIS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Wiseman

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y DA BAR

Spanogle, Joshua.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SPA

Cartaya, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CAR

Faulkner, William

Summary: First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason. From the Trade Paperback edition. The novel reveals the story of the disintegration of the Compson family, doomed inhabitants of Faulkner's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1992

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FAU

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAU

Martin, Ann M.

Summary: The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2002

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Wright, Betty Ren.

Summary: A dollhouse filled with a ghostly light in the middle of the night and dolls that have moved from where she last left them lead Amy and her retarded sister to unravel the mystery surrounding grisly murders that took place years ago.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1983

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WRI

Spider, Star

Summary: "A teen tries to balance the last year of high school, a new romance and looking after her sister with mental health issues. Seventeen-year-old Penny is struggling to balance caring for Jude, her sister with mental health challenges, working part-time to help her mother with money issues and facing her final year of high school. She does not need any distractions. But then she meets Jack. The...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPI

Avis, Heather

Summary: Illustrations and rhyming text introduce Macy, whose conduct and bearing point to a kinder world where differences are celebrated and embraced.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AVI

Shriver, Maria.

Summary: Making friends with a mentally retarded boy helps Kate learn that the two of them have a lot in common.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2001

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Social Emo Shriver 2001

Wood, Patricia

Summary: Having learned essential life skills from his grandmother that helped him overcome his low IQ, Perry finds himself without a caregiver at the age of thirty-one and wins a fortune by playing the lottery, a windfall that brings him more family than he everwanted.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnams' Sons 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WOO

Summary: The story of the relationship between a prominent high school football coach in a small South Carolina town and the illiterate, mentally-challenged man nicknamed Radio whom he mentors. Although their friendship raises some eyebrows at first, Radio's growth under the coach's guidance ultimately inspires the local townsfolk. Inspired by a true story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Radio 2003

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Ra

Hamilton, Jane

Summary: When Aaron Maciver's beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers brain damage in a bike accident, she is left with the intellectual powers of a seven-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness and devotion as they raise two children of their own.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAMIL

Groom, Winston

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 1994

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRO

Summary: Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Networks 2002

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MY