Hoping to expunge neighborhood prejudice and to do something everyone else has failed to do, a twelve year-old desperately tries to teach her retarded twin.
Young Katy Thatcher, the daughter of the town doctor, becomes friends with Jacob, a teenager who is "touched in the head," which allows her to understand what really happened when the unwanted infant of Jacob's sister is found dead.
The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town.
Forrest Gump, a young man with a limited IQ, does not let his disability hold him back when pursuing success on the football field, in war, and in business, nor does it keep him from remaining steadfast in his love for Jenny.
A mentally retarded man becomes a genius after experimental brain surgery, developing a romance with his former special-education teacher before lapsing back into retardation.
Eleven-year-old Jennalee is jealous when a slow-thinking black man arrives in her Smoky Mountains community and claims to be the son of Uncle Beau, the owner of the general store and Jennalee's only friend.
Cindy, who's developmentally challenged and lives in a strict group house and works at a Hospice, finds a puppy on the street and takes it home and to work, but the head of the group house finds the puppy and takes him away from Cindy.
