A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost.

In Massachusetts, eighteen-year-old Lyn, who has grown up in the public eye as the daughter of seven gladiators, wants nothing less than to follow her mother's path, but her only way of avoiding marriage to the warrior who killed her last stepfather may be to face him in the arena.

Following his doctor's instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate "progris riports." He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can't even beat the laboratory mouse Algernon at maze-solving. Algernon is extra-clever thanks to an experimental brain operation so far tried only on animals. Charlie eagerly volunteers as the first human subject. After frustrating delays and agonies of concentration,...

"Best buddies look out for each other, but when one has to go to school, what's the other to do? After a bit of moping . . . and whining . . . a boy and his dog find the perfect way to stay close all day long."--book jacket.

Fifteen-year-old Will Bennon leaves his family and begins life as a cowboy, but his mentally challenged twin brother follows him and joins the journey.

"Photographs of young children with Down syndrome enjoying a wide selection of healthful foods, from fruits and veggies to meats and snacks"--

Emma and her father discuss what they will do when the new baby arrives, but they adjust their expectations when he is born with Down syndrome.

Cindy, a developmentally challenged women, finds a stray dog to love, and shares it with a blind man at the Hospice where she works, but is not allowed to keep it at home. She tries to retrieve it from the SPCA, but it has already been taken: by the Hospice, where she can care for it & see it everyday, along with all the patients.

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.

While helping police officers Esther and Lon investigate a suspicious death at her group home, nineteen-year-old Sal Miyake, who is mentally challenged, gains insights into herself and makes new friends.