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1) Cat's cradle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Cat's Cradle travels from the home turf of Vonnegut's imagination, Ilium, N.Y. to a Caribbean banana republic where an illicit religion called Bokononism is practiced, as a sense of doom (in the form of icenine) overtakes mankind.
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
Explores the portrayal of dwarfs in folklore, the causes and treatment of dwarfism, and the challenges of living in a society where bigger is thought to be better.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Georgie's dwarfism causes problems, but he could always rely on his parents, his best friend, and classmate Jeanie the Meanie's teasing, until a surprising announcement, a new boy in school, and a class project shake things up.
12) Little nothing
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In an unnamed country at the beginning of the last century, a child called Pavla is born to peasant parents. Her arrival, fervently anticipated and conceived in part by gypsy tonics and archaic prescriptions, stuns her parents and brings outrage and scorn from her community. Pavla has been born a dwarf, beautiful in face, but as the years pass, she grows no farther than the edge of her crib. When her parents turn to the treatments of a local charlatan,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Mid-nineteenth-century little person Mercy Levinia Warren Bump comes of age in the antebellum south before being invited to join the P. T. Barnum circus, through which she meets her future husband, General Tom Thumb, and pursues limitless international opportunities.
14) Little man
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A small baby-faced criminal pretends to be an infant to hide from the police, and is found by a couple eager to become parents who take him into their home.
15) Maybe the moon
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
All of 31 inches tall, Cady is a true survivor in a town where -- as she says -- "you can die of encouragement." Her early starring role as a lovable elf in an immensely popular American film proved a major disappointment, since moviegoers never saw the face behind the stifling rubber suit she was required to wear. Now, after a decade of hollow promises from the Industry, she is reduced to performing at birthday parties and bat mitzvahs as she waits...
Author
Publisher
Howard Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From the beloved stars of TLC's The Little Couple comes an uplifting and moving behind-the-scenes account of how the pair met, fell in love, and overcame huge obstacles to become successful professionals and parents. Jennifer Arnold and Bill Klein haveinspired millions as stars of TLC's hit show The Little Couple. Though they both have dwarfism, they have knocked down every obstacle they have encountered together with a positive, can-do attitude....
20) Going bovine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
In an attempt to find a cure after being diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen-year-old boy, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital.