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Overcoming Dyslexia

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Will Trent, who is a Georgia Bureau of Investigation detective in Karin<br />

Slaughter's novels, is dyslexic.<br />

Maeve Kaplan-Taylor, one of the five main characters in the Beacon Street Girls<br />

series, is dyslexic.<br />

Bascule the Teller, a character from Iain M Banks' novel Feersum Endjinn, is<br />

dyslexic. Bascule's portion of the story is narrated in a semi-phonetic spelling that<br />

non-dyslexic readers may find difficult to parse, perhaps yielding insight into a<br />

dyslexic's world.<br />

Stella Penn, character from Mark Peter Hughes' 'Lemonade Mouth'. Found out<br />

she has <strong>Dyslexia</strong> at the end of the book.<br />

Mavis Elizabeth Betterly (May), the main character from Caroline Starr Rose's<br />

novel in verse May B, must leave school partly due to her dyslexia, which sets in<br />

motion the events of the story. May B is a 2013 ALA Notable Children's book.<br />

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