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Written By: Terry Trueman
Published by: Harper Colllins, 2003
Genre: Fiction
Interest Level: 9-12th
Lexile Level: 710L
Reading Level: 4.6
Teaser: Not all disabilities are ones we see. Like physical disabilities, emotional disabilities take effect of our everyday lives. Some have to take medication to regulate their body, but when they forget or something happens their everyday life can be interrupted just as Zach's is in the novel "Inside out"
Cognitive Dimensions Lesson: Have the students pick an emotional disability alone or in pairs. Have them research all about their disability and then come up with a lesson to teach their classmates. They have to use class discussion, a powerpoint, and a visual aide in their lesson.

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https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59643-214-7
Written by: Sarah Aronson
Published by Roaring Brook Press, 2007
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Interest Level: 7-12th grade
Lexile Level: 490L

Reading level: 3.5
Teaser: We all wish we could take back certain moments in our life. Sometimes our mistakes cause hurt to us and some cause hurt to others. Aronson's decision not only affected his life but effected countless other physically and emotionally.
Cognitive Dimensions Lessons: Have the students write a letter to the family of someone they "killed" after getting behind the wheel drunk. Have the students read their letters out loud. After reading the letters out loud see common words or phrases that were used in the letters and which have more of an impact than others. Talk to students about how the decisionstraz we make not only effect our life but those around us too

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http://www.thecomicstrips.com/store/add.php?iid=89420
Comic Strip by Bizarro
Teaser: When we are younger we always noticed when something was different with a person. And we noticed it was different because we didn't have the same thing. But to the other person looking at us, we were different because we didn't have what they had. Who was different depended on whose perspective you were looking at.
Cognitive Dimensions Lessons: Have students write there own comics about about their perspective about a book  they have read this year. You can also do it about the last book you read as a class. That way all the students would be drawing about the same book.
Other: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/young-adult-literature-about-1136.html

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Written by Juan Felipe Herrera
Illustrated by Ernesto Cuevas, Jr
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1016495.Featherless_Desplumado
Published by Children’s Book Press in 2004
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Interest Level: 1-3
Reading Level: 2-3
Teaser: Is it possible to play a running sport without running. Is it possible to play a soccer in a wheelchair?
Teaching Idea: Have a wheelchair brought into your class so the student can see it up close and personal. Let them try it out and see what students think about it. Have a presenter come in and talk about their everyday life with a wheel chair for the children.
Other: https://www.leeandlow.com/uploads/loaded_document/38/Featherless_TG_by_CBP.pdf

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166999.Stoner_Spaz
Written by: Ronald Koert
Published by Candlewick Press, 2002.
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Interest Level: 9-12th
Lexile Level: 580L
Reading Level: 3.8

Teaser: Is it true that opposites attract not just for relationships. Can too individuals who are completely different (a stoner and a good student) become friends?
Cognitive Dimensions Lessons: Split the class into 7 groups and give each group a different drug classification (Depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, opioids, Inhalants, cannabis, New psychoactive substances (NPS)). Have each group put together a presentation and present to the class. Have them talk about what is the drug, its effects (short and long), the different types, facts, and more.
Other: https://www.scribd.com/document/228009227/Eng-10-Lesson-Plan

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https://samedifference1.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/listentothesilence-4.pdf
Written by Wilfred Owen
Teaser: Writng potery is a way to express your feelings. When you have a disabilty, sometimes there can be anger there. Writng can help many people tell thier stories and emtions to the world.
Cognitive Dimensions Lessons: Using the link there are many different poems about disabilities. Have the students look through the list and pick one poem. Have the student analyze them poem and write down what they think the poem is about and is there any messages in the poem. Then have each student read their poem aloud and have them tell the class what they wrote about the poem.

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By: Kimberly Fusco
https://www.writerswrite.com/bookreviews/tending-to-grace-100408
Published by Knopf, 2004.
Genre: Fiction
Interest Level: 9-12th
Lexile Level: 760L
Reading Level: 4.2

Teaser: As teenagers we just want to fit in. But when we have something that sets us apart such as stutter, it makes it so much harder.
Cognitive Dimensions Lesson: After reading the novel, have students watch the movie "Rocket Science". It is also about a student who has a stutter and is navigating high school life. After reading and watching the movie have students write a paper about how the movie and book impacted their views or changed them on their high school experience.

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Written by Lisa Rowe Fraustino
Illustrated by Benny Andrews
http://lisarowefraustino.com/wordpress/?page_id=22
Published by Arthur Levine Books in 2001
Genre: Fiction Picture Book
Interest Level: K-3
Text Level-
Guided reading: 0
Grade Level Equivalency: N/A
DRA: 34
LEXILE Level: AD700L
Teaser: We all have senses that bring us many wonders but what if we each had one sense that was just a little bit better than the rest. Losing a sense makes you realize how much you used that sense.
Teaching Idea: Have the student close their eyes and have to identity objects in front of them based solely on smell. See how many objects the students can get. After they have all gone talk as a class about how important the sense smell is. Talk about which objects were easy and hard. Which was their favorite or least. Talk about if any memories came to mind when they smelled certain objects
Other: https://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/homeschool-lesson-plans/five-in-a-row/the-hickory-chair/

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Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum  

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Written by Robert Andrew Parker
Illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2476115.Piano_Starts_Here
Published by Schwartz & Wade in 2008
Genre: Non-Fiction
Interest Level: K-3
LEXILE Level: 750
ATOS Reading Level: 4.7

Teaser: We all have a hidden talent. Something that is just unique to us. Can you imagine your hidden talent? Now could imagine having to do that talent without sight.
Teaching Idea: Have the students put on blindfolds and complete daily task. Such as opening a container or water bottle, folding clothes, sit up and down in a seat, write their name, among other things. After everyone has gone ask if the task were difficult or hard for the students. Were some easier or harder. Ask the class different ways they could do things if they had visual problems.
Other:
https://gatheringbooks.org/2017/03/29/nonfiction-wednesday-29/

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Written by M.J Auch
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/mj-auch/one-handed-catch/
Published by Henry Holt and Company, 2006.
Genre: Fiction
Interest Level: 6th-8th Grade
Guided Reading: U
LEXILE Level: 710L
DRA: 50
Reading level: 4.2
Teaser: We use our hands in our everyday lives. When a freak accident occurs Norm is left without his arm. He has to learn how to do things with one arm, and learn how to love his favorite sport again.
Cognitive Dimensions Lessons: Have students try and do different task only using one hand. Such as write their name, catch a ball, tie their shoes, turn a page, and others.  Have different stations around the room that groups can rotate between. After the students have completed the stations have them write a 1 page paper about how the stations went for them. What did they find the most difficult, was there anything that was easier than most?

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Written by Isaac Millman
Illustrated by Isaac Millman
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/333686.Moses_Goes_to_a_Concert
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1998
Genre: Fiction Picture Book
Interest Level: PreK-2
LEXILE Level: 670L
ATOS Reading Level: 3.3
Teaser: Is there more ways to listen to music. We all hear the music but what if we couldn't hear. Is there a way for us to enjoy the concert.
Teaching Idea: Talk to the students about how there is different ways to communicate with each other. Tell them about sign language and show them what it is. Work as a class signing everyones name so the student can get an understanding of how it works.
Other: https://www.readworks.org/lessons/gradek/moses-goes-concert/read-aloud-lesson

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Written by Beth Finke
Illustrated by
https://www.writerswrite.com/bookreviews/tending-to-grace-100408

Published by  Blue Marlin, 2007
Genre: Children's Book
Interest Level: K-3rd
Reading level: 3.1
Teaser: We have all seen dogs in public walking around a park or fetching a ball. Sometimes however we see dogs wearing a vest. That vest means that dog is more than just an ordinary house pet. They help people live everyday life.
Cognitive Dimensions Lessons: Have the students fill out a KWL chart about service dogs. After they fill it out have a speaker come in and talk about their life with a service dog. Have the dog brought in as well and have the speaker show how the dog can help them in their everyday life with commands.

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https://fab.lexile.com/book/details/9780142403709/
Written by Gennifer Choldenko
Published by Putnam’s Sons, 2004.
Guided reading: X
DRA: 60
LEXILE Level: 600L
Teaser: When we are kids our parents make all our decisions for us. In the book Moose has to move because his parents tell him he has too. Leading him down an adventurous path where he learns about himself, his family, and the prisoners on the island.
Cognitive Dimensions Lessons: Have students research a person who served time in Alcatraz  or were famous because of the prison. Have then the students have a "person fair" where students would become the characters they researched. They would answer questions and tell their life stories and why they ended up at Alcatraz.

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Written by Robert Munsch
Illustrated by Michael Martchenko
http://robertmunsch.com/book/zoom
Published by Scholastic in 2003
Genre: Fiction Picture book
Interest level: 1-2
Text Level-
Guided reading: K
Grade Level Equivalency: N/A
DRA: 18
LEXILE Level: 330L
Teaser: Do you feel like sometimes people are just too slow? What if you could goes as fast as lightning?
Teaching Idea: Have the student think of different ways to get from place to place other than a typical car or walking. Ask students for their input and see if they can come up with another way to get to places that they could invent.
Other: http://museumofdisability.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/10.-LESSON-PLAN-Zoom.pdf

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Composed by Elaine Kolb
Teaser: Have you ever had a diffuclt time riding a car or bus. For most people they have no issues. But what about the people who can not phyiscally get on a bus or in a car? Are there ways to get them on or are they out of luck?
http://www.musicxray.com/xrays/200386
Teaching Idea:
Have the student think about the different modes of transportation. After they have come up with a list ask them if someone where to have a physical disabilty would they be able to get on those devices? Ask the students how they would? Ask them how they would feel if someone said they could not get on bus because they could not walk? Talk with students about how it is important to make sure things are accessible to everyone and ask student what some ideas may be.