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Learning disabilities / Meryl Loonin.
Loonin, Meryl.

Branch: 0033
Call Number: 616.85 Loo       Collection: TX
ISBN: 1420507931
Pub. Info: Detroit : Lucent Books/Gale Cengage Learning, c2012.
Target Audience: 9-12 Medialog, Inc.

Includes glossary.

This book discusses the causes and symptoms of learning disabilities as well as testings and treatments for these disabilities.
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The disturbed girl's dictionary / NoNieqa Ramos.
Ramos, NoNieqa,

Branch: 0033
Call Number: F Ram       Collection: TX
ISBN: 1512439762 :
Pub. Info: copyright2018
Target Audience: 8.0 Perma-Bound Books. 8.0 Perma-Bound Books. HL500 Lexile.

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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Freak the mighty / Rodman Philbrick.
Philbrick, W. R.

Branch: 1033
Call Number: F Phi       Collection: TX
ISBN: 0800009096
Pub. Info: New York : Scholastic Signature, 2001, c1993.
Target Audience: 1000 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.5 5.0 5331 IN

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.


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The mighty Miramax Films presents ; a Scholastic Productions/Simon Fields production ; directed by Peter Chelsom ; produced by Jane Startz and Simon Fields ; screenplay by Charles Leavitt.

Branch: 0033
Call Number: DVD Mig       Collection: VR
ISBN: 0788815695 :
Pub. Info: New York : Miramax Films, 1998.

Based on the novel "Freak the Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick.

MPAA rating: PG-13.
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Chuck Close close up created and produced by Linda Freeman ; written and directed by David Irving.

Branch: 0033
Call Number: DVD B Clo       Collection: VR
ISBN: 1882660234
Pub. Info: Chappaqua, NY : L & S Video, c2006.

"Partially paralyzed and with learning disabilities, Chuck Close's story is one of motivation and determination. He is a great American artist who continually reinvents himself"--Container.
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Bambert's book of missing stories / by Reinhardt Jung ; translated by Anthea Bell.
Jung, Reinhardt,

Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: F Jun       Collection: TX
ISBN: 0375929975 (lib. bdg.)
Pub. Info: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c2004.
Target Audience: 5-7. 950 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 6.1 3

Originally published in translation: London : Egmont Books Ltd., 2002.

A recluse, having written stories peopled with beloved characters, releases them into the world on hot-air balloons, hoping they will find life and return to him.
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A framework for understanding poverty : a cognitive approach / Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D.
Payne, Ruby K.,

Branch: 0033
Call Number: PF 362.509 Pay       Collection: PF
ISBN: 1938248015 (pbk.)
Pub. Info: Highlands, Tex. : Aha! Process, Inc., [2013]

The 5th edition features an enhanced chapter on instruction and achievement; greater emphasis on the thinking, community, and learning patterns involved in breaking out of poverty; plentiful citations, new case studies, and data: more details findings about interventions, resources, and causes of poverty, and a review of the outlook for people in poverty---and those who work with them.
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