Hickory Chair, by Lisa Rowe Fraustino
A.A. Levine, 2001
A blind boy tells of his warm relationship with his
grandmother and the gift she left for him after her death.
Reading Level: 3.5; Accelerated Reader: 4.3
Hooway for Wodney Wat, by Helen Lester
Houghton Mifflin, 1999
All his classmates make fun of Rodney because he can't pronounce his name,
but it is Rodney's speech impediment that drives away the class bully.
Reading Level: 2.5; Accelerated Reader: 3.1
Joey Pigza Loses Control, by Jack Gantos
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000. 2001 Newbery Honor.
Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired,
goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known
and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship. Reading
Level: 5.9; Accelerated Reader: 4.9
Harper Trophy, 2000, c1998
Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches with the championship. Reading Level: 5.2; Accelereated Reader: 4.9
Memories of Summer, by Ruth White
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000
In 1955, thirteen-year-old Lyric finds her whole life changing when her
family moves from the hills of Virginia to a town in Michigan and her
older sister, Summer, begins descending into mental illness. Reading Level:
5.2; Accelerated Reader: 4.7
Moses Goes to School, by Isaac Millman
Frances Foster Books, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000
Moses and hs friends enjoy the first day of school at their special school
for the deaf and hard of hearing where they use sign language to talk
to each other. Reading Level: 3.2; Accelerated Reader: 3.3
Laura Geringer Books, 2004
"Twelve-year-old Heidi It and her severely mentally disabled mother survive through a combination of good luck and their next-door neighbor's loving attention. An undeveloped roll of old film leads Heidi to embark alone on a risky cross-country quest to answer questions about Mama's past." (Horn Book) Reading Level: 5.2; Accelerated Reader: 5.0
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1996
Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition. Reading Level: 4.8; Accelerated Reader: 5.9
During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, thirteen-year-old Toby and his best friend Cal meet the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in the world. Reading Level: 5.0; Accelerated Reader: 4.5
Harcourt Brace, 1996
A biography of the African-American woman who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to win three gold medals in track in a single Olympics. Reading Level: 4.8; Accelerated Reader: 5.1
See Also:
6th Grade Can Really Kill You, by Barthe DeClements (1985)Helen fears that lack of improvement in her reading may leave her stuck in the sixth grade forever, until a good teacher recognizes her reading problem. Reading level: 6.0; Accelerated Reader: 4.9
Blind Outlaw, by Glen Rounds (1980)
horses - legends - mutism - fiction
Crazy Lady! by Jane Leslie Conly. (1993)
As he tries to come to terms with his mother's death, Vernon finds solace in his growing relationship with the neighborhood outcasts, an alcoholiic and her retarded son. Reading Level: 4.9; Accelerated Reader: 3.8
Gift, by Helen Coutant (1983)
friendship - blindness - old age - fiction
I Have a Sister - My Sister is Deaf, by Jeanne Witehouse Peterson. (1977)
A young girl describes how her deaf sister experiences everyday things. Reading Level: 2.0; Accelereted Reader: 3.3
Izzy, Willy-Nilly, by Cynthia Voight (1986)
A car accident causes fifteenyear-old Izzy to lose one leg and face the need to start building a new life as an amputee. Reading Level: 6.0; Accelerated Reader: 4.9
Light on Hogback Hill, by Cynthia DeFelice (1993)
When she investigates the mysterious light on Hogback Hill, eleven-year-old Hadley finds and befriends a hunchbacked old woman with a tragic past. Reading Level: 5.4; Accelerated Reader: 4.6.
Me and Rupert Goody, by Barbara O'Connor (1999)
Eleven-year-old Jennalee is jealous when a slow-thinking black man arrives in her Smoky Mountains community and claims to be the son of Uncle Beau, the owner of the general store and Jennalee's only friend. Reading Level: 6.0; Accelerated Reader: 4.5
Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille, by Russell Freedman (1997)
A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write. Reading Level: 6.5; Accelerated Reader: 6.7
Picture Book of Louis Braille, by David A. Adler (1997)
Presents the life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used throughout the world by the blind. Reading Level: 3.5; Accelerated Reader: 4.8
Probably Still Nick Swansen, by Virginia Euwer Wolff (1988)
Sixteen-year-old learning disabled Nick struggles to endure a life in which the othe kids make fun of him, he has to take special classes, his date for the prom makes an excuse not to go with him, and he is haunted by the memory of his older sister who drowned while he was watching.
Safe at Second, by Scott Johnson (1999)
Paulie Lockwood's best friend Todd Bannister is destined for the major leagues until a line drive to the head causes him to lose an eye and they both must find a new future for themselves.Reading Level: 7.8; Accelerated Reader: 4.3
Stranded, by Ben Mikaelsen (1996)
Twelve-year-old Koby, who hs lost a foot in an accident, sees a chance to prove her self- reliance to her parents when she tries to rescue two stranded pilot whales near her home in the Florida Keys. Reading Level: 5.7; Accelerated Reader: 4.2
Trespassers, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (1996)
Having trespassed and explored the empty Hutchinson mansion, which seems haunted by the presence of a long-dead young girl, sixth grader Neely and her little brother become regular visitors when emotionally disturbed Curtis Hutchinson moves in. Reading Level: 5.7; Accelerated Reader: 5.5