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1) The gift
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
There is no hurt so great that love cannot heal it. Nathan Hurst hated Christmas. For the rest of the world it was a day of joy and celebration; for Nathan it was simply a reminder of the event that destroyed his childhood until a snowstorm, a cancelled flight and an unexpected meeting with a young mother and her very special son would show him that Christmas is indeed the season of miracles.
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
To stop Hatch from using the Elgen fleet to gain world power, Michael and the rest of the Electroclan must destroy the lead ship, but divisions within the Electroclan threaten the success of their operation.
6) The world's strongest librarian: a memoir of Tourette's, faith, strength, and the power of family
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of how a Mormon kid with Tourette's found salvation in books and weight-lifting.
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
To everyone at Meridian High School, fourteen-year-old Michael Vey is nothing special, just the kid who has Tourette's syndrome. But in truth, Michael is extremely special--he has electric powers. Michael thinks he is unique until he discovers that a cheerleader named Taylor has the same mysterious powers. With the help of Michael's friend, Ostin, the three of them set out to discover how Michael and Taylor ended up with their abilities, and their...
8) Icy Sparks
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Orphaned as a baby but raised by adoring grandparents, Icy Sparks is a bright, curious ten-year-old. But something strange is happening to her ... those croaks, jerks, and spasms keep slipping out.
9) Compromised
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
With her con-man father in prison, fifteen-year-old Maya sets out from Reno, Nevada, for Boise, Idaho, hoping to stay out of foster care by finding an aunt she never knew existed, but a fellow runaway complicates all of her scientifically-devised plans.
10) Forget me not
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her mother breaks up with yet another boyfriend, Calliope meets Jinsong at her latest middle school, who becomes her friend despite her Tourette Syndrome and the embarrassment it can cause.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel. Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life...
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When he was growing up, Brad started making funny noises - all the time. Only Brad and his supportive mother knew he could not control it. He was teased, misunderstood and punished for disrupting class. By the time he is diagnoes with Tourette Syndrome, Brad had learned to hate school. When an understanding school principal offers encouragement, Brad decides to become a teacher. Now he has to find a school where someone's with Tourette's in front...
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