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There are many opportunities for self-advocacy in the NCBC, as members decide which book they want to read, how they want to read the book, and how they want to organize their weekly meetings.

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Adapted Classics: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (retold from the original story); A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (retold from the original story); Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (retold from the original story); Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (retold from the original story); Anne of Green Gables- Christmas Stories by L.M. Montgomery; Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (retold from the original story); Dr. Doolittle by Hugh Lofting (retold from the original story); Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (retold from the original story); Heidi by Johanna Spyri (retold from the original story); Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (retold from the original story); Moby Dick by Herman Melville (retold from the original story); Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (retold from the original story); Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (retold from the original story); Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (retold from the original story); Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter (retold from the original story); Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin (retold from the original story); Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (retold from the original story); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (retold from the original story); The Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle (retold from the original story); The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (retold from the original story); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (retold from the original story); The Call of the Wild by Jack London (retold from the original story); The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (retold from the original story); The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (retold from the original story); The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle (retold from the original story); The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (retold from the original story); The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann D. Wyss (retold from the original story); The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (retold from the original story); The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (retold from the original story); The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (retold from the original story); The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (retold from the original story); Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (retold from the original story); Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (retold from the original story); White Fang by Jack London (retold from the original story)
Advocacy: Count Us In: Growing Up with Down syndrome by Jason Kingsley and Mitchell Levitz
Miscellaneous: Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen; Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Popular Fiction: A Wind in the Door by Madeline L'Engle; A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle; Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko; Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Dicamillo; Blubber by Judy Blume; Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink; Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White; George Washington's Socks by Elvira Woodruff; Hatchet by Gary Paulsen; Henry and Ribsy by Beverly Cleary; Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary; Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos; Knights of the Kitchen Table by John Scieszka; Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder; My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George; Nancy Drew: The Riding Club Crime by Carolyn Keene; Ramona and her Father by Beverly Cleary; Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary; Runaway Ralph by Beverly Cleary; Stealing Freedom by Elisa Carbone; Stuart Little by E.B. White; The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner; The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth; The Green Mile by Stephen King; The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis; The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary; The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi; The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White; Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls; Whittington by Alan Armstrong
Sports Literature: Hoops by Walter Dean Myers; Skinny Bones by Barbara Parks

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Providing adolescents and adults with disabilities
an opportunity to read and socialize with friends