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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
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"After failing to come to Belinda's aid while she was being attacked, Emily and another classmate are punished by being forced to work at a community center for people with disabilities, but they are put the ultimate test when Belinda finally returns to school and they must find a way to make amends to her"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
A group of teens at the Hope Juvenile Treatment Center are shocked to discover their guards have abandoned them, but their joy turns to fear when they learn a catastrophic pandemic has occurred outside their walls, turning their new-found freedom into a fight for survival.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
6) El Deafo
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 2
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#1 New York Times Bestseller!
Now an Apple+ Animated TV Series!
Winner, John Newbery Medal
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What does it take for a student with hearing loss and a hearing aid to become a superhero!!?!?
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Starting at a new school is scary, especially with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At her old school, everyone in Ceceâs class was deaf. Here, sheâs different. Sheâs...
Now an Apple+ Animated TV Series!
Winner, John Newbery Medal
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What does it take for a student with hearing loss and a hearing aid to become a superhero!!?!?
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Starting at a new school is scary, especially with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At her old school, everyone in Ceceâs class was deaf. Here, sheâs different. Sheâs...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I'm allergic to the world. I don't leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He's tall, lean and wearing all black -- black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking...
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Pub. Date
2019
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!
Harriet Flores struggles with boredom and an unrequited crush while learning to manage her chronic illness through a long, hot, 1990s summer in Chicago. She uses her imagination to cope, which sometimes gets her into trouble, as she makes up fantastical fibs and wonders if there are ghosts upstairs. One neighbor, Pearl, encourages...
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Series
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Curious George knows that getting sick is no fun—but learning facts about fighting off bad germs is!
In this exciting Curious George series all about discovery, George comes down with a cold and can’t wait to feel better. In the meantime, it’s straight to bed for this monkey. But when George drifts to sleep, his dreams take him on a wild ride inside the body to learn all about germs, how they affect us, and how to
12) Broken
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Attending high school for the first time, chronically ill Scarlet, with the help of her new friends, faces down bullies, endures her school-nurse mother's smothering over protectiveness, and eventually discovers the truth behind her illness--a truth thatputs much more than her life at risk.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Arlo Brodie loves being at the heart of the action on the football field, and while his dad cheers him on, his mother quotes head injury statistics and refuses to watch, but Arlo's winning plays, the cheering crowds, and the adrenaline rush are enough to convince him that everything is OK, in spite of the pain, the pounding, the dizziness, and the confusion. --publisher marketing.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Seventeen-year-old Simon lies in a coma, finding his space and time overlapping with that of a man who was lynched over 200 years ago, while a member of the cheating ring he has been helping wonders if their actions have caused the plagues assaulting their New Jersy town.
16) The wild book
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In early twentieth-century Cuba, bandits terrorize the countryside as a young farm girl struggles with dyslexia. Based on the life of the author's grandmother.
19) Disease Control
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Pub. Date
2014
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There is a war raging that you may not be aware of, the fight to prevent the spread of diseases. Everyday health care professionals are focused on controlling the spread of disease. This book exposes students to the innovatative tools and techniques healthcare professionals use to track, control, and combat the spread of dangerous diseases.