A tale in which a boy with Downs Syndrome helps an abandoned pony by displaying a junior “horse whisperer” talent.
read moreEleven-year-old Warren is flip-flopping between trying to fit in at a new school and being the protective brother of Bennie, who has Down syndrome.
read moreTrouble begins in a small Newfoundland fishing outport when a new magistrate arrives from England. A pompous and arrogant man, he expects deference without doing anything to earn it. The magistrate’s attitude is contrasted sharply with that of John, a young man…
read moreWhile Melissa is laid up with the chicken pox, Laura and Amber meet Doris Duncan’s granddaughter, Beth Anne, who has Down syndrome. They invite Beth Anne to take Melissa’s place as a volunteer at the senior center. When grouchy Mrs. Henry breaks…
read moreIn seventeenth-century Yorkshire, Lucy’s younger sister Sarah is suspected by many to be a changeling, a fairy child substituted by the fairies for a human child.
read moreSheena and her very special friends travel back in time to the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. They are led by another special individual, someone only they can see.
read moreWhen Bryn’s mother dies, she and her father move to the farm in Ontario to live with relatives Bryn has never seen. Aunt Pearl stoically takes them in, al though struggling with the news of her sister’s death and with meeting Bryn….
read moreGrade 5-9 In Anderson’s book, readers live for a while in the minds and bodies of eight special children. Bertram drives the route that the other school bus drivers call “the fruit-cake” run. His passengers are mentally and, in some cases, physically…
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