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Brothers and sisters Fiction Down syndrome Fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Large type books New York (State) New York Staten Island People with mental disabilities Fiction People with mental disabilities Institutional care People with mental disabilities Juvenile fiction Reformatories Twin sistersLee, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEELowry, Lois.
Summary: Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Lowry 2003Bartoletti, 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 BARWright, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1983
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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 PLOWalters, Minette.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M WALSpencer, Elizabeth
Summary: Over the course of a career that spanned six decades, the southern novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Spencer established herself as one of the finest literary artists of a generation that included Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty. This definitive volume brings together three remarkable novels: The Voice at the Back Door, her powerful masterpiece about racial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPECartaya, 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 CARSpider, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPISteinbeck, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall & Co. 1995
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STESpanogle, Joshua.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SPABodeen, 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 1998Faulkner, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1992
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FAUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAUWood, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnams' Sons 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WOOAvis, 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 AVIHamilton, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAMILKeyes, Daniel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall & Co. 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1990
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC KEYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KEYGroom, Winston
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROFaulkner, William
Summary: The story of the tragic Caddy Compson, as seen through the eyes of her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic Quentin, and the monstrous Jason.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 1995
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MARLewis, Beverly
Summary: Join Merry Hanson, a very modern fifteen-year-old living in Pennsylvania's Amish country, as she faces the true-to-life struggles and heartfelt triumphs of growing up to be the best she can be in God's eyes. After her Amish neighbors' farm is vandalized, Merry resolves to find the culprit before an innocent person is blamed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: christianaudio.com 2010
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Shriver, Maria.
Summary: Making friends with a mentally retarded boy helps Kate learn that the two of them have a lot in common.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Social Emo Shriver 2001Wiseman, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022