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Struggling through his dyslexia to try to fulfill his girlfriend Fiorella's request for a letter revealing his secret self, eighteen-year-old Karl asks Fiorella's favorite author for help, and he agrees only if Karl will submit to a series of interviews, which prove helpful to both men.
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Lord Sebastian Gresham is a battle-tested soldier and brilliant strategist. Yet all his life he's had to hide his complete failure to decipher letters. In his own mind, he's just stupid. What a miracle it is that he's found the perfect bride. Lady Georgina Stane is beautiful, witty, and brilliantly intelligent. Sebastian is head over heels in love, proud as a peacock, and terrified. If she finds out, he'll lose her love forever.
6) Double Dutch
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Three eighth-grade friends, preparing for the International Double Dutch Championship jump rope competition in their home town of Cincinnati, Ohio, cope with Randy's missing father, Delia's inability to read, and Yo Yo's encounter with the class bullies.
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Rocket may be the fastest third-grader around, but he has dyslexia, making him a slower reader. When he comes across what he believes to be coded messages warning of danger to Mrs. Flores, their teacher, Rocket gathers together his friends, the Gumshoe Gang, to crack the case before time runs out.
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"Maple Mehta-Cohen has been keeping a secret: she can't read all that well. She has an impressive vocabulary and loves dictating stories into her recorder--especially the adventures of a daring sleuth who's half Indian and half Jewish like Maple herself--but words on the page just don't seem to make sense to her. Despite all Maple's clever tricks to hide her troubles with reading, her teacher is on to her, and now Maple has to repeat fifth grade....
11) Summer reading
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"When a woman who'd rather do anything than read meets a swoon-worthy bookworm, sparks fly, making for one hot-summer fling in New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay's new rom-com. For Samantha Gale, a summer on Martha's Vineyard at her family's tiny cottage was supposed to be about resurrecting her career as a chef, until she's tasked with chaperoning her half-brother, Tyler. The teenage brainiac is spending his summer at the local library...
12) My storee
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A young boy who struggles with dyslexia is overjoyed when his class gets a new teacher who doesn't send his stories back to him all marked in red pen, but rather encourages his creativity.
13) Brilliant Bea
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With help from Ms. Bloom and some new friends, Beatrice discovers that learning differently is not something to be afraid of, and that dyslexia does not define who she is.
14) Fish in a tree
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"Ally's greatest fear is that everyone will find out she is as dumb as they think she is because she still doesn't know how to read"--Provided by the publisher.
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Claudia and her friend Shea work together to overcome their problems with reading and and spelling due to dyslexia. If Claudia fails one more test she is not going to pass her English class. Her friend Shea has a learning disability too and hates feeling stupid just as much as Claudia does. Together they are going to show their teachers just how smart they can be.
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Adam is dyslexic so he has to work extra hard to learn to read, and he'd rather be playing sports or drawing in his sketchbook, so when it's time for the big test at school he's a nervous wreck. He knows the answers, but he's not a good test-taker, and what if he fails, will he have to repeat fourth grade, and will everyone think he's not smart?
20) Pinch me
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After another night of girls, music and booze, seventeen-year-old pop star Darius Zaire falls out of bed and lands on the cruddy floor of his old bedroom. No mansion, no luxury cars, no platinum records. Now he's just ordinary Darren Zegers. Some kind of nightmare has erased everything that happened to change Darren the dweeb into Darius the multimillionaire.