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1) Wonder
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"These stories are an extra peek at Auggie, a boy born with extreme facial abnormalities, before he started at Beecher Prep and during his first year there. Readers get to see him through the eyes of Julian, the bully; Christopher, Auggie s oldest friend; and Charlotte, Auggie s new friend at school"--
Author
Language
English
Description
In Stand Beautiful, international speaker and TEDx presenter Chloe Howard shares her story of overcoming injustice, battling self-doubt, and rising up to speak out, fueled by a powerful encounter with Bono from the band U2. Chloe's story shows that even through brokenness and shame, we can venture toward hope, accept our unique selves, and share in our human experiences. Chloe boldly addresses the unlikely hero in each of us. Readers will be inspired...
5) Unblemished
Author
Series
Unblemished volume 1
Language
English
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"With a birthmark covering half her face, Eliyana has always recoiled from her own reflection in the mirror. But what if that were only one Reflection--one world? What if another world existed where her blemish could become her strength?"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Caroline Sears receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970 and there seems to be little that can be done. But her brother-in-law, a physicist, tells her that perhaps there is. Hunter appeared in their lives just a few years before--and his appearance was as mysterious as his past. With no family, no friends, and a background shrouded in secrets, Hunter embraced the Sears family and never looked...
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"After having saved the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back in Florida with his peculiar friends, where they set out on a journey across America to discover the truth about Jacob's grandfather"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
WONDER IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS AND JACOB TREMBLAY!
Over 3 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder—the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement—and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. Readers have also been given a special look at another side of Auggie's story with The Julian Chapter...
Over 3 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder—the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement—and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. Readers have also been given a special look at another side of Auggie's story with The Julian Chapter...
9) Starfire
Author
Series
Guardian Herd volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Star is prophesized to become the most powerful winged horse in Anok on his first birthday, but he must first overcome his malformed wings that make him unable to fly and threats from the leaders of the five herds"--
10) Wonder
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A boy with a facial deformity, who enters a middle school after being homeschooled for his whole life, struggles to fit in and get accepted by his classmates.
Author
Language
English
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A young woman’s secret may tear her rural Minnesota community apart, in this “emotional tale of star-crossed love, vengeance and regret” (Publishers Weekly).
In the tumultuous days after World War I, Herman Richter returns from the front to find his only sister, Liesel, allied with Lester Sutter, the “slow” son of a rival clan who spends his days expertly trapping lake turtles. Liesel has sought Lester’s...
In the tumultuous days after World War I, Herman Richter returns from the front to find his only sister, Liesel, allied with Lester Sutter, the “slow” son of a rival clan who spends his days expertly trapping lake turtles. Liesel has sought Lester’s...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
WONDER IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS AND JACOB TREMBLAY!
Over 3 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder—the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement—and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. Last year readers were given a special look at another side of his story with The Julian Chapter,...
Over 3 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder—the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement—and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. Last year readers were given a special look at another side of his story with The Julian Chapter,...
13) The Peculiars
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-old Lena Mattacascar sets out for Scree, a weird place inhabited by Peculiars, seeking the father who left when she was young, but on the way she meets young librarian Jimson Quiggley and handsome marshall Thomas Saltre, who complicate her plans.
14) The bees
Author
Language
English
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Description
A member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, Flora 717, due to her courage and strength, finds her way into the Queen's inner sanctum where she discovers secrets about the hive that cause her to challenge authority and perform unthinkable acts.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
WONDER IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS AND JACOB TREMBLAY!
Over 3 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder—the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement—and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face.
From the very first day Auggie and Julian met in the pages of R. J. Palacio's life-changing book Wonder,...
Over 3 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder—the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement—and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face.
From the very first day Auggie and Julian met in the pages of R. J. Palacio's life-changing book Wonder,...
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Series
Language
English
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"Since her sister's death, twenty-year-old Paisley Donovan has been treated like delicate glass by her parents. She may share her sister's heart condition, but nothing will stop her from completing her Bucket List, even if it kills her. And it almost does, until Jagger Bateman pulls her from the ocean and breathes more than air into her lungs--he sets her soul on fire. Jagger is enrolled in the country's toughest flight school. He's wickedly hot,...
17) Water in May
Author
Language
English
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Pregnant at fifteen, Mari Pujols believes the baby will supply the family love she yearns for but when she learns the fetus has a heart defect, her friends, sometimes boyfriend, and doctor are there for her.
18) Defect
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After spending most of his life in Minnesota foster homes hiding a bizarre physical abnormality, fifteen-year-old David is offered a chance at normalcy, but must decide if giving up what makes him special is the right thing to do.
19) Dragon's keep
Author
Series
Wilde Island chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon's claw she was born with that reflects only one of her mother's dark secrets.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Praised by RJ Palacio as "wondrous"--this moving memoir follows a teenage boy with TC syndrome and his exceptional family from diagnosis at birth to now. "This touching memoir is a must-read for anyone who wants to know more about the real world experiences of a child with craniofacial differences and his extraordinary family. It's also more than that. It's a story about the love between a mother and a son, a child and his family, and the breadth...
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