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Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
2) Blindsided
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After years of failing eyesight, fourteen-year-old Natalie reluctantly enters a school for the blind, where in spite of her initial resistance she learns the skills that will help her survive in the sighted world.
4) Silence
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After an accident robs Stella of her hearing and her dream of going to Broadway, she meets Hayden, a boy who stutters, and comes to learn what it truly means to connect and communicate in a world filled with silence.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Scorned in her Flatlands village because of a deformed foot, Emmeline Thistle's life changes when she is taken in by Wanderlands dairy farmers and discovers her magical ability to make chocolate, which is more precious and rare than gold or jewels in the kingdom of Anglund.
6) Dangerous
Author
Series
Maisie Danger Brown volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
When aspiring astronaut Maisie Danger Brown, who was born without a right hand, and the other space camp students get the opportunity to do something amazing in space, Maisie must prove how dangerous she can be and how far she is willing to go to protect everything she has ever loved.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
150 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Mexican American seventh-grader Javier is assigned to work with a special education class and connects with Dontae, who has both physical and mental disabilities, his reputation among gang members and drug abusers no longer seems very important.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
231 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Russian troops invade Finland during the winter of 1939-40, Marko, a young polio victim determined to keep his homeland free, joins the Finnish Army as a messenger boy.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
x, 291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, ambitious Lady Macbeth tries to bear a son and win the throne of Scotland for her husband, and Albia, their daughter who was banished at birth and raised by three weird sisters, falls in love, learns of her parentage, and seeks to free Scotland from tyranny in this tale based on Shakespeare's Macbeth.
10) Pinned
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adonis is smart, intellectually gifted and born without legs; Autumn is strong, a great wrestler, and barely able to read in ninth grade--but Autumn is attracted to Adonis and determined to make him a part of her life whatever he or her best friend thinks.
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