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41) Shark girl
Author
Series
Shark girl volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future.
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."
43) Bouncing back
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Orphaned thirteen year-old Carlos learns what it truly means to be a teammate when he must help save his new wheelchair basketball team's gym from destruction.
45) Gentle's Holler
Author
Series
Maggie Valley series volume 1
Language
English
Description
In the early 1960s, twelve-year-old songwriter Livy Two Weems dreams of seeing the world beyond the Maggie Valley, North Carolina, holler where she lives in poverty with her parents and eight brothers and sisters, but understands that she must put family first.
Author
Series
Mermaid tales volume 22
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover/paperback edition.
Physical Desc
82 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Echo's third grade class visit the Titanic and figure out a way of including their new classmate, Anita, who is confined to a wheeled chair.
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?"--...
49) Silence
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After an accident robs Stella of her hearing and her dream of going to Broadway, she meets Hayden, a boy who stutters, and comes to learn what it truly means to connect and communicate in a world filled with silence.
50) Pigs might fly
Author
Language
English
Description
A runt piglet born with deformed front feet is coached in swimming by a duck and an otter and, when the pig farm is flooded, becomes a hero.
52) Bitter dumplings
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.
53) Tuck triumphant
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Helen, her blind dog Friar Tuck, and her family face some dramatic challenges when they discover that the Korean boy they have adopted is deaf. Sequel to "The Trouble with Tuck."
54) The snow rabbit
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
This wordless story is about two sisters, a walk in the snowy forest, and the appearance of an enchanted rabbit.
55) Susan laughs
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
26 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Rhyming couplets describe a wide range of common emotions and activities experienced by a little girl who uses a wheelchair.
56) 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.
57) 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.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Moses and his schoolmates, all deaf, attend a concert where the orchestra's percussionist is also deaf. Includes illustrations in sign language and a page showing the manual alphabet.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 168 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Regan begins to suffer from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, she must face the possibility that her dream of being a professional dancer may never come true.
60) Willow King
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
193 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Katie, who is herself physically challenged, saves a crippled foal from euthanasia and nurses him back to health and eventual championships.
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