In this book a young boy named Charlie describes the activities he shares with his friend Isabelle, a girl with Down Syndrome. Isabelle and Charlie are friends. They both like to draw, dance, read, and play at the park. They both like to eat Cheerios. They both cry if their feelings are hurt. And like most friends, they are also different from each other. This book encourages us to think about why friendships are special and how our differences can...

Best Buddies introduces a boy-and-dog duo who are BEST FRIENDS and who do EVERYTHING together! But what happens when the boy goes to school? Discover how a clever boy with Down syndrome and his beloved pup come up with the perfect solution?

When he sees all the attention which his parents and people in the neighborhood give to Jacob, eleven-year-old Paul struggles with his feelings toward this younger brother who has Down syndrome.

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...

On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret.

But Caroline,

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