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Pub. Date
2020.
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"What's the point of pretending nothing has changed when everything has? It's the last summer before college, and Jonas Avery knows he should be excited. Instead, he hides out at home, avoiding his friends, his family, and everything that resembles his old life. Because nothing will be normal again--because of The Accident, when everything started falling apart. Brennan Davis knows she needs to stand up and face her anxiety--the deep, dark, debilitating...
4) Crossfire
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Captain Thomas Forsyth's tour of duty in Afghanistan is cut brutally short when he's badly wounded by a roadside bomb. Tom returns to his childhood home in Lambourn, where his mother is a racehorse trainer and the "First Lady" of racing. Never having seen eye-to-eye with her, Tom doesn't expect a hero's welcome but even he's not prepared for the reception that awaits him. When his mother's prize horse finishes a vastly disappointing last in a race...
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Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 24
Description
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. He is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier....
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Series
Brave enough volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Teenage cancer survivors Mari and Jase have flirted for years at Camp Chemo, but when she transfers to his high school their different approaches to their history cause trouble.
7) Shark girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future.
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Summer Harbor novels volume 3
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"Riley Callahan's plans to reveal his secret feelings for his best friend are ruined when his life is drastically altered in Afghanistan...Watching the love of his life falling for his brother was enough to send Riley straight to boot camp. But over a year later, he's officially a marine, and Beau and Paige are no longer an item. When Riley's tour in Afghanistan is up, he intends to confess his feelings to Paige and win his best friend's heart once...
10) A time to dance
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In India, a girl who excels at Bharatanatyam dance refuses to give up after losing a leg in an accident.
11) Crazy beautiful
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In this contemporary retelling of "Beauty and the Beast," a teenaged boy whose hands were amputated in an explosion and a gorgeous girl whose mother has recently died form an instant connection when they meet on their first day as new students.
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Pub. Date
℗♭2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Kate, seeking distraction from her recent diabetes diagnosis, begins dating Aidan, a young veteran who lost an arm in Afghanistan, and the two soon realize that they might mean more to each other than they first thought.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Skylar Evans, seventeen, yearns to escape Creek View by attending art school, but after her mother's job loss puts her dream at risk, a rekindled friendship with Josh, who joined the Marines to get away then lost a leg in Afghanistan, and her job at the Paradise motel lead her to appreciate her home town.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
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Surviving a shark attack that cost her an arm, Jane, an aspiring artist, reevaluates her ambitions and sense of identity while harboring a crush on her attractive tutor and considering a relationship with a boy from her science class.
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Fifteen-year-old Angela, distraught over her mother and stepfather's separation, confides in a statue of St. Felix that suddenly seems to come alive, after which she befriends Jesse, a nineteen-year-old disabled veteran, although Felix, her family, and friends warn her to be wary of him.
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"In the aftermath of World War I, nurse Bess Crawford attempts to save a troubled former soldier from a mysterious killer..."--
The Armistice of November 1918 ended the fighting, but the Great War will not be over until a Peace Treaty is drawn up and signed by all parties. Representatives from the Allies are gathering in Paris, and already ominous signs of disagreement have appeared. Sister Bess Crawford, who has been working with the severely wounded...
18) Wind Dancer
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Having lost her beloved pony in a traumatic accident, thirteen-year-old Ali is reluctant to help her parents care for a neglected, malnourished Appaloosa, but working with Wind Dancer is a good distraction from problems surrounding her brother, who recently returned from Afghanistan with a missing leg and PTSD.
19) Rolf
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Series
Dog diaries volume 10
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"A dachshund loses his hind leg in an accident and finds his life's calling as a therapy dog"--
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Series
What happened to you? volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
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"A young boy with a limb difference wishes people could see him for who he is, rather than treating him as "so amazing" due to his disability"--