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3) My buddy
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Physical Desc
26 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A young boy with muscular dystrophy tells how he is teamed up with a dog trained to do things for him that he can't do for himself.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a teacher who believes each of them is a genius, a class of special-needs students invents something that could convince the whole school they are justifiably proud to be "Junkyard Wonders."
Author
Series
Aven Green volume 3
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Third-grader Aven Green is a real professional musician! She just needs to choose an instrument to play. When she decides to try the piano, Aven is disappointed she can't master Mozard in one whole day. To cheer up Aven, her parents take her to see a musician who was born without arms. With new inspiration and a special gift from her great-grandma, Aven is ready for the school talent show. Will she take center stage? Or will she blow her big chance?"--...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
After her father dies, a young Chinese woman struggles to survive and finds she has much in common with an old hunchbacked woman in her village.
10) Prairie school
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1880, Noah's aunt teaches the reluctant nine-year-old how to read as they explore the Colorado prairie together, Noah pushing Aunt Dora in her wheelchair.
11) Mama zooms
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy's wonderful mama takes him zooming everywhere with her, because her wheelchair is a zooming machine.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
On a snowy Christmas eve in the late 1800s, Frances and her family wait and worry when beloved Uncle Ambrose, who has a crippled leg, does not come home as expected.
14) The storm
Author
Publisher
Cobblehill Books/Dutton
Pub. Date
[1995]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Though confined to a wheelchair, Jonathan faces the terror of a tornado all by himself and saves the lives of the horses on the family farm.
15) Hannah
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
60 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Hannah, a blind girl living in Michigan in the late nineteenth century, doesn't go to school until a new teacher tells her about the Braille method of reading for the blind.
17) See the ocean
Author
Publisher
Ideals Children's Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Driving through mountain fog to the beach, two young brothers compete to see who will catch the first glimpse of the ocean, but it is their blind sister Nellie who senses it first.
Author
Series
Moses volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Strous and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Moses, who is deaf, has a good time with his family at the circus, where they communicate using sign language. Includes illustrations of some of the signs they use.
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