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1) The gift
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
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An uplifting tale of hope and faith celebrates the joy of the holiday season and follows a theme of the redemptive power of love.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to twitch his neck. From that day forward his life became a hell of irrepressible tics and involuntary utterances, and Cory embarked on an excruciating journey from specialist to specialist to discover the cause of his disease. Soon it became unclear what tics were symptoms of his disease and what were side effects of the countless combinations of drugs. The...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
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Description
A black comedy in New York's criminal underworld. The twitching hero--he suffers from Tourette's syndrome--is one of four misfits who were rescued from an orphanage by a man who gave them jobs in his detective agency. Now the man has been killed and the boys intend to get the killer.
6) Icy Sparks
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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Icy Sparks has spent most of her life being ridiculed because she suffers from Tourette Syndrome, but as she grows older, she teaches the people in her town how to accept people for who they are, not what they appear to be.
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Paul Skoglund, unemployed, handicapped with Tourette's syndrome, and battling his ex-wife for custody of his young son, accepts a needed job restoring his aunt's family home, but the destruction the house has suffered seems too great to have been caused by vandals, and Paul soon realizes something is dangerously wrong.
10) Forget me not
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When her mother breaks up with yet another boyfriend, Calliope meets Jinsong at her latest middle school, who becomes her friend despite her Tourette Syndrome and the embarrassment it can cause.
11) The road within
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Vincent is a young man with Tourette's Syndrome, coming to terms with the death of his mother and life in a behavioral facility. With the help of two unlikely friends and a stolen car, the three embark on a epic road trip that will change their lives forever.
12) Compromised
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
With her con-man father in prison, fifteen-year-old Maya sets out from Reno, Nevada, for Boise, Idaho, hoping to stay out of foster care by finding an aunt she never knew existed, but a fellow runaway complicates all of her scientifically-devised plans.
13) List of ten
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Description
A suicidal teen fighting the symptoms of Tourette syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder creates a bucket list of ten goals to achieve by the tenth anniversary of his diagnosis, before a newcomer with her own troubled history unknowingly offers him more hopeful perspectives.
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Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"An inspirational tale of personal struggle with and triumph over Tourette syndrome, this is the story of Jeff Matovic and the radical treatment he sought to cure himself. After suffering from Tourette's for years--with his tics and outbursts getting progressively worse and with no results coming from drugs or physical or spiritual therapy--Jeff was able to convince his doctors and his insurance company to try a risky deep brain stimulation treatment,...