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After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mother takes him and his younger brother, who has Down syndrome, to Puerto Rico to visit relatives they do not remember or have never met, and while there Marcus starts searching for his father, who left their family ten years ago and is somewhere on the island.
6) Hurt you
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2023.
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English
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While not feeling Korean 'enough' in her new school, Georgia fights to protect her neurodivergent older brother from a hostile, ableist, racist community that wishes him harm.
9) Dead ends
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2013.
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English
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When Dane, a bully, refuses to hit Billy D because he has Down Syndrome, Billy takes that as a sign of friendship and enlists Dane's help in solving riddles left in an atlas by his missing father, sending the pair on a risky adventure.
10) Best buddies
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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A boy with Down syndrome and his dog are best friends, but how will they manage being apart when the boy heads to school for the first time?
12) One-third nerd
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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First edition.
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English
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Ten-year-old Liam and his two younger sisters, precocious third-grader Dakota and second-grader Izzy, who has Down syndrome, face the possibility of losing their beloved dog, Cupcake, who keeps urinating on their apartment's carpet.
14) The degenerates
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[2020]
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First edition.
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English
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1928. At the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded, Maxine is doing everything she can to protect her younger sister Rose. Vicious attendants and bullying older girls treat them as the morons, imbeciles, and idiots the doctors have deemed them to be. Alice was left there when her brother couldn't bring himself to support a sister with a club foot. London was dragged there from the best foster situation she's ever had, thanks to one unexpected,...
15) Hey Jude
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2020.
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English
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"A teen tries to balance the last year of high school, a new romance and looking after her sister with mental health issues. Seventeen-year-old Penny is struggling to balance caring for Jude, her sister with mental health challenges, working part-time to help her mother with money issues and facing her final year of high school. She does not need any distractions. But then she meets Jack. The two of them click immediately. But as quickly as things...
16) Girls like us
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2014.
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First edition.
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English
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Graduating from their school's special education program, Quincy and Biddy are placed together in their first independent apartment and discover unexpected things they have in common in the face of past challenges and a harrowing trauma.
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[2018]
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First edition.
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English
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Elric and Wynn live in the Between protected by the Fairy Queen, but a creature sent by the evil Grendel forces Wynn to enter the Nightfell Wood where Grendel lives and Elric must find a way into the dangerous region to save his sister.
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