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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.
62) 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.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1981]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A first grader who is very good at balancing objects while in her wheelchair and on her crutches thinks up her greatest balancing act ever to benefit the school carnival.
65) The weirdo
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1991]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Chip Clewt fights to save the black bears in the Powhaten National Wildlife Refuge.
Author
Publisher
Woodbine House
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
25 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Though David knows frustration and resentment at times, he feels he understands his disabled little brother even better than his parents; and together the two boys experience a great deal of joy.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Scorned in her Flatlands village because of a deformed foot, Emmeline Thistle's life changes when she is taken in by Wanderlands dairy farmers and discovers her magical ability to make chocolate, which is more precious and rare than gold or jewels in the kingdom of Anglund.
69) Extraordinary
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Pansy often backed out of things her best friend, Anna, wanted to do, including attending the sleepaway camp where Anna contracted meningitis and became disabled, but when Pansy learns that surgery might restore Anna to her old self, she will do anything to become extraordinary in time for Anna's return.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The polygamous Kevinian cult has taken everything from seventeen-year-old Minnow: twelve years of her life, her family, her ability to trust. And when she rebelled, they took away her hands, too. Now their Prophet has been murdered and their camp set aflame, and it's clear that Minnow knows something -- but she's not talking. As she languishes in juvenile detention, she struggles to un-learn everything she has been taught to believe, adjusting to...
71) Petey
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
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 teenage boy and shares with him the joy of life.
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.
73) Silent Lotus
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1991.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Although she cannot speak or hear, Lotus trains as a Khmer court dancer and becomes eloquent in dancing out the legends of the gods.
74) 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.
75) 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.
76) Back home
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Rachel Browning understands that her father will be different after being injured in the Iraq War, but no one is prepared for the impact that his traumatic brain injury and other wounds have on the entire family.
Author
Series
People potential volume 2
Publisher
National Association of the Deaf
Pub. Date
[1977]
Physical Desc
51 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A deaf girl discovers that songs can be sung in many different ways.
79) Stuck in neutral
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 114 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1995]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
121 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Hannah Billings hates being teased about marrying Malcolm Murgatroyd, the most unpopular and misunderstood boy in her sixth-grade class, until he reveals his true personality when her brother succumbs to muscular dystrophy.
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