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Author
Language
English
Description
After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mother takes him and his younger brother, who has Down syndrome, to Puerto Rico to visit relatives they do not remember or have never met, and while there Marcus starts searching for his father, who left their family ten years ago and is somewhere on the island.
Marcus Vega is six feet tall, 180 pounds, and the owner of a premature mustache. When you look like this and you're only...
42) He's my brother
Author
Publisher
A. Whitman
Language
English
Description
A young boy describes the experiences of his slow learning younger brother at school and at home.
43) Dumb and dumber
Language
English
Formats
Description
Comedy about a pair of dim-witted friends on a cross-country trip to return a case full of money.
44) Take wing
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
English
Description
When Mother is hospitalized, everyone in the Ross household must finally face the long ignored problem that seven-year-old James is not a baby, a slow learner, or lazy, but mentally retarded.
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Lawnmower man: A brilliant scientist, obsessed with perfecting a revolutionary virtual reality software program, enlists the aid of a slow-witted gardener, only to encounter a shadowy group seeking to turn the "lawnmower man" into the ultimate weapon. Lawnmower man 2: Enter the deadly world of virtual reality, where information is the key to world domination and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
46) Nobody's child
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Based on the heart-wrenching true story of Marie Balter. Abused and victimized, she beats impossible odds to build a normal life after spending 20 years locked away in a mental institution.
48) Sunnyside Plaza
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
While helping police officers Esther and Lon investigate a suspicious death at her group home, nineteen-year-old Sal Miyake, who is mentally challenged, gains insights into herself and makes new friends.
49) Monica & David
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Explores the marriage of two adults with Down Syndrome and the family who strives to support their needs. Monica and David are blissfully in love and want what other adults have, an independent life. Full of humor, romance, and everyday family drama, intimate fly-on-the wall footage is used to reveal the complexity of their story. While Monica and David are capable beyond expectations, their parents, aware of mainstream rejection of adults with intellectual...
50) Isolation ward
Author
Series
Nate McCormick thrillers volume 1
Language
English
Description
When three female residents of Baltimore's group home for the mentally impaired are admitted to St. Raphael's Hospital with an unknown virus Dr. Nathaniel McCormick, an investigator from the CDC discovers that something is terribly wrong. The man who had sexual contact with the women is found murdered and Nate fears that the disease he's chasing may not be an act of nature, but of man. Together with Dr. Brooke Michaels an old colleague and former...
51) A Christmas home
Author
Series
McCray Family novels volume 2
Publisher
Crown Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Todd has been working for years at the local animal shelter when he learns that it's being shut down. With his best friend, Laura, he struggles to place the animals in homes before the shelter closes, and Todd becomes torn between a dairy job close to home and a dog-trainer job three hours away, a decision that is further complicated when he realizes that he and Laura may be more than friends."--Publishers Weekly.
52) Charly
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Charly is an adult male with a cognitive disability struggling to survive in the modern world. His frequent attempts at learning, reading, and writing prove difficult. His teacher, Miss Kinian, takes Charly to the clinic where he is observed by doctors who have Charly "race" a mouse, Algernon. Algernon is usually the winner thanks to an experiment that greatly raised his intelligence. This experiment is given to Charly, who at first does not seem...
53) My Louisiana sky
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse,
55) Charly
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A mentally retarded man becomes intelligent after brain surgery, and romances a caseworker before slipping back into retardation. Based on Daniel Keyes' novel Flowers for Algernon.
Author
Publisher
Bethany Backyard
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Allie helps Jesse, her older, mentally disabled brother on his way to school and endures the taunts of other children, but she does not understand why God made Jesse the way he is until she takes the time to "walk in his shoes" for a while.
Author
Series
Goblin wars books volume 1
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Soon after the mysterious and alluring Finn arrives at her family's home, sixteen-year-old Teagan Wylltson and her disabled brother are drawn into the battle Finn's family has fought since the thirteenth century, when Fionn MacCumhaill angered the goblin king.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
�2011
Language
English
Description
The Fringe team escapes from the parallel universe, except for Olivia, trapped in the other world and replaced in ours by her double, who turns Peter and Olivia's tentative relationship into a love affair. Then Olivia returns, bonds of trust fray, ever more bizarre and terrifying phenomena occur, and secrets that stretch back to 1985 threaten to destroy our universe. Or theirs.
