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Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes how a teacher named Miss Chew encouraged individuality, and accepted learning differences, and helped a young student with academic difficulties get extra time to take tests and permission to be in advanced art classes. Inspired by the author's memories of her art teacher.
2) Sidetracked
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
"Seventh-grader Joseph Friedman is friendless and puny, with ADD to boot. He spends most of his time avoiding the class bully and hiding out in the Resource Room. But the Resource Room teacher encourages (i.e., practically forces) him to join the school cross country team, and he meets Heather, a new student who's tough and athletic and refuses to be pushed around by anybody"--
3) Up for air
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
Learning disabilities make school painful for Annabelle, thirteen, but a summer of swimming with the high school team is fantastic until a prank goes wrong, spoiling everything.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
Henri has attended a special school for her learning disability, dyscalculia, but when she is mainstreamed, she finds herself struggling to balance other parts of her life, and not just in math class--a family feud, drama on the soccer team, and a passion for poetry.
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Fifteen-year-old Macy, officially labeled "disturbed" by her school, records her impressions of her rough neighborhood and home life as she tries to rescue her brother from Child Protective Services, win back her overachieving best friend after a fight, and figure out whether to tell her incarcerated father about her mother's cheating.
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Series
Here's Hank volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Hank's cousin Judith Ann is an excellent cook, and does not let Hank forget it, but when Hank enters a cooking competition with her he finds out that she has trouble in school, just like Hank.
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Max Leonard is convinced that he will never succeed with memorizing his multiplication tables; and his brain "freezes" during timed tests. But to everyone's surprise, Max has been completing algebra problems sets in his spare time! Max, his parents and teachers are amazed by his math "potential."
Author
Series
Here's Hank volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"When Hank's class takes a field trip to the zoo, he quickly gets lost after his partner (and nemesis) ditches him. Unable to read the map, Hank wanders and finds himself locked in a habitat with Elsie the elephant"--
11) Bluefish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
Everything changes for thirteen-year-old Travis, a new student who is trying to hide a learning disability, when he meets a remarkable teacher and a sassy classmate with her own secrets.
13) Freak the mighty
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team.
Author
Series
Hank Zipzer volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Inspired by his own experiences with undiagnosed dyslexia, actor/director Henry Winkler presents this new series about the high-spirited and funny adventures of a fourth-grader with learning differences. When Hank Zipper has to write an essay on what he did over the summer, he decides instead to show what he did. Illustrations.
Author
Series
Hank Zipzer volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Stuck in summer school while his friends enjoy a "Passport to Hawaii," nearly-eleven-year-old Hank needs to earn an A on an oral report about Einstein in order to participate in Magik 3's talent show act at the luau extravaganza.
Series
Hank Zipzer volume 10
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Teased by the school bully because of his Halloween costume, underachieving Hank, with the help of his friends exacts revenge by creating the the scariest and grossest haunted house ever and inviting the bully to visit.
Author
Series
Hank Zipzer volume 14
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Hank must decide whether to attend tae kwon do or an after school reading program run by his favorite teacher, and when he meets an interesting girl at "Reading Gym," he gets into a complicated situation that even has him lying to his father.
18) Pinned
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 5
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.
Author
Series
Here's Hank volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Hoping to land the lead in the class play, Hank freezes during his audition and is only able to buzz like a fly, inspiring his teacher to create a special role for him as a silent bookmark that saves the show when a rival suffers an attack of stage fright. The books in the Here's Hank series are designed using the font Dyslexie, a font developed to help dyslexic readers.
20) Holy enchilada!
Author
Series
Hank Zipzer volume 6
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Efforts to impress a visiting student from Japan cause Hank to hide his dyslexia while the gang makes enchiladas for a Multi-Cultural Day lunch, and Hank is afraid he was very wrong about the amount of chili powder called for in the recipe.