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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors...
Author
Language
English
Description
Six foot six, 242 pounds, and possessed of a scant IQ of 70, Forrest Gump is the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this classic comic tale. His early life may seem inauspicious, but when the University of Alabama's football team drafts Forrest and makes him a star, it sets him on an unbelievable path that will transform him from Vietnam hero to world-class Ping-Pong player, from wrestler to entrepreneur. With a voice all his own, Forrest is telling...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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. Narrated by Aaron's son Mac, When Madeline Was Young chronicles the Maciver family through the decades, from Mac's childhood growing up in Wisconsin with...
Publisher
Penguin Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and shared dream that make an individual's existence meaningful.
Tragic tale of a simpleminded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
224 pages cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Delrita, whose unhappy life has caused her to hide from the world, loves her uncle Punky but sometimes feels ashamed of his behavior because he has Down's syndrome.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Graduating from their school's special education program, Quincy and Biddy are placed together in their first independent apartment and discover unexpected things they have in common in the face of past challenges and a harrowing trauma.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A full-length account of the author's prize-winning New York Times story chronicles the exploitation and abuse case of a group of developmentally disabled workers, who for 25 years, were forced to work under harrowing conditions for virtually no wages until tenacious advocates helped them achieve their freedom.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1995.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
147 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When he becomes stronger but slower, Terry must deal with being moved from defensive safety to offensive tackle on his football team and with the fact that his younger brother, who was born with Down's Syndrome, is becoming a faster runner.
10) Forrest Gump
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Special collector's edition ; widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he doesn't realize the significance of his actions. Forrest comes to embody...
Author
Publisher
Persea Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
ix, 77 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"These poems explore the haunted legacy of the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, a medical institution at the heart of the eugenics movement in the first half of the twentieth century in America. The author, who has cerebral palsy, grew up in the shadow of the former Colony in southwestern Virginia, aware that, had she been born fifty years earlier, she would quite possibly been admitted there, and exposed to a variety of inhumane...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 17 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Fringe team escapes from the parallel universe, except for Olivia, trapped in the other world and replaced in ours by her double, who turns Peter and Olivia's tentative relationship into a love affair.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author describes the year she spent riding the buses of her Pennsylvania city with her sister, and how taking part in those journeys allowed her to slow down her life and develop stronger interpersonal connections.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 35 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Collector of Bedford Street is an Academy Award nominated short documentary that follows the filmmaker's 60 year old neighbor, Larry Selman, a community activist and fundraiser who has an intellectual disability. Every year, Larry collects thousands of dollars for charities while living at the poverty line. When Larry's primary caregiver becomes unable to care for him, his New York City neighborhood community rallies together to protect his independent...
15) Spider Sparrow
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
163 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spider, a baby abandoned on an English farm, grows up to be mentally slower than other children but manifests a remarkable talent for communicating with animals as he comes of age during World War II.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (564 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The fifth and final season delivers a climactic conclusion. Picking up from events depicted in season four's flash-forward episode, the seemingly peaceful Observers seized control of our universe in 2015. Now, in 2036, they have become ruthless rulers who stand unopposed. What awaits in the future, however, is the Fringe Team's final stand, which will bring together all they have witnessed in preparation for the final battle to protect our world.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (968 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season Two contains worlds (and alternative worlds) of excitement complete with shape-shifters, cryonic heads, belly-dwelling beasts, and people who turn to ashes before our eyes. But the overarching narrative takes three clandestine FBI agents, Olivia Dunham, Peter Bishop, and Walter Bishop, through a mind-bending investigation of a parallel reality that threatens to destroy ours.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
7 videodiscs (1028 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three unlikely colleagues -- a beautiful young FBI agent, a brilliant scientist who's spent the last 17 years in a mental institution, and the scientist's sardonic son -- investigate a series of bizarre deaths and disasters known as 'the pattern.' Someone is using our world as an experimental lab. And all clues lead to Massive Dynamic, a shadowy global corporation that may be more powerful than any nation.
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