Although Christy considered him a pest, when Eddie Lee, a boy with Down's Syndrome, follows her into the woods, he shares several special discoveries with her.
Hattie's world is turned upside down with the startling arrival of an uncle no one has ever spoken about. Now that Adam's school--an institution for the mentally disabled--is closing, Hattie's family must deal with a childlike young man whose existence they've denied for years.
Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, all the while dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher.
Although Christy considers him a pest, when Eddie Lee, a boy with Down Syndrome, follows her into the woods one day, and shares his understanding of nature with her, she learns a new appreciation for him.
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.
Graduating from their school's special education program, Quincy and Biddy are placed together in their first independent apartment, where they discover unexpected things they have in common while coping with past challenges and a harrowing trauma.
A memoir of the author's experience with his autistic brother in which he examines issues such as treatment, the nature of relationships without the benefit of language, and various attempts to help his sibling become a member of mainstream society.
In 1952 Vermont, ten-year-old Blue decides to set out in the middle of her town's sesquicentennial celebration to find the mother who abandoned her as a baby, but a series of events reminds her that she already has everything she needs.
A homework pack that contains book and audio versions of "The Summer of the Swans," in which a teenage girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost; and includes a student worksheet and teacher's guide.
