Gail Giles
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A 2015 Schneider Family Book Award Winner
With gentle humor and unflinching realism, Gail Giles tells the gritty, ultimately hopeful story of two special ed teenagers entering the adult world.
We understand stuff. We just learn it slow. And most of what we understand is that people what ain't Speddies think we too stupid to get out our own way. And that makes me mad.
Quincy and Biddy are both graduates of their high
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he was nine, Kip set another child on fire. Now, after years in a juvenile ward, he is ready for a fresh start. But the ghosts of his past soon demand justice, and he must reveal his painful secret. How can Kip tell anyone that he really is--or was--a murderer?
Author
Publisher
Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (2 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Sunny is stunned when a total stranger shows up at her house posing as her older sister Jazz, who supposedly died out of town in a fire months earlier.