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Ally has been smart enough to fool a lot of smart people. Every time she lands in a new school, she is able to hide her inability to read by creating clever yet disruptive distractions. She is afraid to ask for help; after all, how can you cure dumb? However, her newest teacher Mr. Daniels sees the bright, creative kid underneath the trouble maker. With his help, Ally learns not to be so hard on herself and that dyslexia is nothing to be ashamed of....
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Loveboat volume 2
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Sophie Ha and Xavier Yeh have a tumultuous past. Hearts were broken, revenge was plotted, but they've left the drama behind at Loveboat, their infamous summer program. It's autumn now and they're focusing on what really matters. Sophie is determined to excel at university. Xavier just wants to stay under his overbearing father's radar and concentrate on what makes him happy. But the universe has different plans... Sophie and Xavier find themselves...
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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. Maple...
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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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"Xander thinks the George Wickerman Hospital would be the perfect setting for Spirits and Specters, a role-playing game where players go on 'missions' to find evidence of paranormal activities. According to local legend, tuberculosis patients were used as test subjects in medical experiments that ended tragically, and their disfigured ghosts walk the hallways of this now-abandoned building. What better location to go ghost hunting? Even though they...
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Seventeen-year-old Matt, painfully dyslexic and insecure, discovers that he can travel between worlds after being transported to Talia, where he joins Luciano and other Stravaganti in trying to prevent the di Chimici family's breakthrough into our world.
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After the assassination of her older sister Scilla, seventeen-year-old Jiara chooses to take her sister's place as the bride to the young king of a distant country, hoping to identify her sister's killer before Scilla's vengeful ghost murders their family. Includes author's note.
11) 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.
12) The 75-cent son
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Constantly criticized by his father, a young dyslexic man tries to prove his worth when a fire threatens to sink their ship.
13) Pinch me
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After a night of partying, teen pop sensation Darius Zaire wakes up to find himself back in his mother's house where his success of the past three years no longer exists.
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Boost your reading skills with dyslexia exercises for teens. Living with dyslexia can be hard, but with practice it's possible to build your reading and writing abilities--and Dyslexia Tools Workbook for Teens can help. It offers a whole bunch of exercises to develop your spelling and language fluency in a range of different ways. As you work through this book, you'll gradually improve the skills that will help you succeed in school and in the future....
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En un tiempo en que la dislexia es algo desconocido, y la dificultad para leer y entender lo que se lee es interpretado por algunos como vagancia o rebeldía, una niña se esfuerza cada día para superarlo. Sin recurrir a tintes dramáticos, la atuora trata el tema de la dislexia entrecruzándolo con otras circunstancias de la vida de la protagonista, como el colegio, las amistades, la familia.
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"This book addresses the most common questions and concerns of teenagers with dyslexia who are preparing for further education or training. Targeted at 14-17 year olds, this engaging and informative guide empowers young people to make informed decisions about the next stage of their education, and helps them plan for a smooth transition to college, university or the workplace. This book ensures that teenagers with dyslexia are aware of their rights...