Hattie had been looking forward to a quiet summer, but that was not to be. Her Uncle Adam, who has mental disabilities, comes to live with them. She didn't even know she had an Uncle Adam. The town laughs at him and Hattie must find a way to adjust to life with her new Uncle. This book was an Newbery Honor Winner in 2003.

This Newbery Honor Winner from 1994 is the story of Vernon. Vernon and his friends tease his neighbors Maxine and Ronald. Ronald is Maxine's son and has mental retardation. Vernon is forced to face the truth about his neighbors when the state comes to take Ronald away from Maxine. Will Vernon help Maxine fight to keep her son? Why does the state want to take Ronald away?

Zach is waiting for his mom in the coffee shop when suddenly there is a robbery that goes bad and everyone inside is taken hostage. Zach has schizophrenia and admits to not being scared by the robbery because he is "used to seeing and hearing really weird stuff." This is the story of the robbery from Zach's point of view, with some background history on his schizophrenia.

Leslie Fish is 12-years-old. She lives in Minnesota with her mother, father, and 15-year-old brother. Leslie goes to Plymouth Middle School. She also happens to have mental retardation, which means that it takes her longer to learn some things. Leslie tells what it's like to live and go to school with mental retardation.

Set back in time to 1948, eleven-year-old Skip moves to the Bronx with her family. Skip has an older sister, Angela, who is mentally retarded. Skip's parents expect her to keep an eye on her sister Angela all the time. But Skip wants to be free to pursue a new friendship with another girl, Jean, who is daring, exciting, and who seems to run the neighborhood. Read this book to find out whether Jean is a good friend to Skip. How does Jean get Skip and Skip's sister, Angela, in trouble? What happened to Kaminsky's roses?

In this Newbery Award Winner, Sara's fourteenth summer is not going well. She wants to get away from everyone, her beautiful sister, father, and bossy Aunt Willie. But when her brother Charlie, who is mentally handicapped, disappears she must deal with her relationships. Will Sara's desire to get away help her find her brother?

Grady is fifteen. He is traveling back to Seattle to participate in a tribute to his mother, Debbie Grennan, a rock star who passed away three years ago. He has been living with his grandmother, but now needs to find someplace else to stay as his grandmother remarried and will be traveling in an RV. He has a half-brother, Louie, who is mentally retarded. Louie and his family live in Seattle. Grady must decide whether or not he wants to live with them permanently.

Read this book to find out whether or not Grady and Louie are able to get along. Can Grady learn to get along with Mitch and Vickie who will become his parents if he wants them to? Can they all learn to work together to make a family? Find out what Grady has to say about his mother at the tribute.

Geraldine, at thirteen, is coming home to stay after spending most of her life in an institution. Neil, her younger brother knows that her coming home will be hard, but not how hard. Read about how Geraldine and her family adjust to their new life.

Kate went to the park one day with her mom. She noticed a boy dribbling a basketball and that no one else was playing with him. Kate also noticed that the boy looked different even though he wore similar clothes as her brothers did. Kate wondered what was wrong with that boy. It just happened that Kate's mom knew the boy's mom. Kate found out that his name was Timmy. So, "what's wrong with Timmy?"

Twelve-year-old Sammy thought that no one liked him. He had trouble doing things and learning things, such as tying his own shoelaces. He also had trouble controlling his tongue and would often get in trouble because of it. Sammy decided to run away one day, after being locked outside of his house because he had said something bad to his Uncle Carl. Read this book to find out what Sammy found in the woods. How long was Sammy in the woods before he was found? What did Sammy learn?