The Boy Who Couldn't Read

The Boy Who Couldn't Read
Author: Cheri Gamble
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2014-10-24
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781502911582

This is a story about a little boy -- a happy little boy who loved to do all the normal things a happy little boy would do. But then he started school and his struggles began. Finding it next to impossible to learn to read, this happy little boy soon became sad as he learned he had dyslexia. How will this little boy deal with the challenges he will now face? Written specifically for children with dyslexia, "The Boy Who Couldn't Read" will help your child learn to survive and THRIVE with dyslexia.

The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To

The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To
Author: DC Pierson
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2010-01-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307474623

A wildly original and hilarious debut novel about the typical high school experience: the homework, the awkwardness, and the mutant creatures from another galaxy. When Darren Bennett meets Eric Lederer, there's an instant connection. They share a love of drawing, the bottom rung on the cruel high school social ladder and a pathological fear of girls. Then Eric reveals a secret: He doesn’t sleep. Ever. When word leaks out about Eric's condition, he and Darren find themselves on the run. Is it the government trying to tap into Eric’s mind, or something far darker? It could be that not sleeping is only part of what Eric's capable of, and the truth is both better and worse than they could ever imagine.

The Boy Who Couldn't Die

The Boy Who Couldn't Die
Author: William Sleator
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781417675678

For use in schools and libraries only. When his best friend dies in a plane crash, 16-year-old Ken has a ritual performed that will make him invulnerable, but soon learns that he had good reason to be suspicious of the woman he paid to lock his soul away.

The Boy Who Couldn't

The Boy Who Couldn't
Author: Rachel Coverdale
Publisher: Willow Breeze Publishing
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2019-07-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781916108011

A stirring action-adventure story about two very different boys whose lives unexpectedly cross. When they stumble upon a badger-baiting plot by dangerous criminals, they need to overcome their differences and fears to help each other and save the badgers. A story about being the person you can be, not the person you are expected to be.

The Teacher Who Couldn't Read

The Teacher Who Couldn't Read
Author: John Corcoran
Publisher: Brehon Publishing Company
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2017-12-29
Genre: High school teachers
ISBN: 9781938620515

"The Teacher Who Couldn't Read" is John Corcoran's life story of how he struggled through school without the basic skills of how to read or write and went on to become a college graduate and a high school teacher, still without these basic skills. National literacy advocate John Corcoran continues to help bring illiteracy out of the shadows with this autobiography, "The Teacher Who Couldn't Read." It is the amazing true story of a man who triumphed over his illiteracy and who has become one of the nation's leading literacy advocates. His shocking and emotionally moving story-from being a child who was failed by the system, to an angry adolescent, a desperate college student, and finally an emerging adult reader-touched audiences of such national television shows as the Oprah Winfrey Show, 20/20, the Phil Donahue Show, and Larry King Live. His story was also featured in national magazines such as Esquire, Biography, Reader's Digest, and People. "The Teacher Who Couldn't Read" is a gripping tale of triumph over America's national literacy crisis-- a story you'll thoroughly enjoy while being enlightened to a national tragedy.

The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing

The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing
Author: Judith L. Rapoport
Publisher: Plume
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1990-01-30
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN:

The first book to bring OCD to public attention tells the stories of those who are afflicted, often in their own words, and describes the successes doctors and patients have had with both experimental and existing treatments.

The Boy Who Couldn't Speak, Yet

The Boy Who Couldn't Speak, Yet
Author: Jordan Christian Levan
Publisher: Jordan Christian Levan
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2021-05-28
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781737155508

Jordan's World was full of love, acceptance, and inclusion. However, Jordan would soon find out the outside world didn't match his inside world. Jordan's World is a non-fictional children's book series.

The Boy Who Wouldn't Swim

The Boy Who Wouldn't Swim
Author: Deb Lucke
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2008-04-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0547533063

Electric, sherbet-y colors, uniquely comic characters, and a story line filled with high comedy mark this fabulous picture book by new talent Deb Lucke. Eric Dooley just won’t swim. If sweating in the hot summer sun while everyone else cools off in the pool isn’t bad enough, Eric’s younger sister is having the time of her life. When he sees her dog-paddling right across the middle of the pool, under his sunblock he’s positively green with envy. Not to mention sweaty. And irritated. But after the babies in the wading pool give him dirty looks for invading their territory, Eric finds a way to conquer his fears. And just like that he goes from being the boy who wouldn’t swim . . . to being the boy who won’t get out of the pool. Not even in October.

The Boy Who Wouldn't Speak

The Boy Who Wouldn't Speak
Author: Steve Berry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1992
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781550372304

Owen, a little boy who has never spoken a word to anyone, befriends two giants who have moved into his neighborhood.

Why Our Children Can't Read, and what We Can Do about it

Why Our Children Can't Read, and what We Can Do about it
Author: Diane McGuinness
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1997
Genre: English language
ISBN: 0684831619

A neuropsychologist shows how outmoded methods for teaching reading have resulted in plummeting literacy levels and offers a new program.