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Author
Language
English
Description
Imagine you were asked the same question again and again throughout your life... Imagine if it was a question that didn't bring about the happiest of memories... This is the experience of one-legged Joe, a child who just wants to have fun in the playground... Constantly seen first for his disability, Joe is fed up of only ever being asked about his leg. All he wants to do is play Pirates. But as usual, one after the other, all the children ask him...
62) Roll with it
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Physical Desc
465 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Five months ago, Liv's big brother, Jonah, shot himself in the head. It was an accident. He didn't know that the gun was loaded. But the damage was done. Now he won't ever be leaving their small mill town like he planned. Jonah can't speak, can't walk, can't take care of himself at all. Their house is full of machines and nurses working around the clock to keep Jonah alive. Liv's mom is struggling to cope with the aftermath, so Liv ends up being the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"As a Deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness--much to the confusion of the world around her. While she cannot see well enough to operate without a guide dog or cane, she can see enough to know when someone is reacting to the visible signs of her blindness and can hear when they're whispering behind her back. And she certainly knows...
65) The good thieves
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First US edition.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1920s New York City, a young girl with a deformed foot recruits her new friends, a female pickpocket and two circus performers, to help recover an emerald from her grandfather's mansion in upstate New York after he loses his home to an unscrupulous tycoon." -- Provided by publisher.
66) Happy again
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
I Like to Read edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An easy-to-read story about Lucas the lion who learns how to live life with a physical disability with help from his friends and family." -- Provided by publisher.
69) Waiting for Eden
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Eden Malcom lies in a bed, unable to move or to speak, imprisoned in his own mind. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his hospital room. He has never even met their young daughter. And he will never again see the friend and fellow soldier who didn't make it back home--and who narrates the novel. But on Christmas, the one day Mary is not at his bedside, Eden's re-ordered consciousness comes flickering alive. As he begins to find a way to...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[021]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"There was a time in the United States when children with disabilities weren't allowed to go to public school. But in 1971, seven kids and their families wanted to do something about it. They knew that every child had a right to an equal education, so they went to court to fight for that right. The case Mills v. Board of Education of the District of Columbia led to laws ensuring children with disabilities would receive a free public education. Janine...
71) Petey
Author
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
In 1922 Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized; sixty years later, still in the institution, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy of life.
72) The golden egg
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
276 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the request of his wife, Commissario Brunetti looks into the death of deaf, mentally disabled man who worked at their dry-cleaners and uncovers a mystery when the man left no official records and his mother is reluctant to speak to him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
72 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Merbaby Flo was born with only one fin, unable to swim--so Bo and the other unicorns set out for the Shiny Sea to find the Golden Fish and ask Goldie to use his magic to help baby Flo.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
637 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
Author
Series
I funny novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Wheelchair-bound middle school student Jamie Grimm's recent victory in the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic Contest leads to a television sitcom based on his life, but being the star of the show forces him to balance his newfound success with the responsibilities of being a good friend." --
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Lexile measure
1000L
Physical Desc
81 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of the 19th century Frenchman who developed Braille. The book spans Braille's life from childhood through his days at the Royal Institute for Blind Youth and into his final years, when the alphabet he invented was finally gaining acceptance.
Author
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
A car accident causes fifteen-year-old Izzy to lose one leg and face the need to start building a new life as an amputee. One moment can change a life forever. Fifteen-year-old Izzy has it all -- a loving family, terrific friends, a place on the cheerleading squad. But her comfortable world crumbles when a date with a senior ends in a car crash and she loses her right leg. Suddenly nothing is the same. The simplest tasks become enormous challenges....
Author
Series
Lexile measure
410L
Language
English
Description
"Some people use wheelchairs to get to and from places. What does that mean? Using simple, engaging text and full-color photos, readers learn why someone would use a wheelchair and what daily life is like for someone who can't walk. This book includes a video, which launches via a 4D app."--Provided by publisher.