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41) Accessible gardening for people with physical disabilities: a guide to methods, tools, and plants
Author
Publisher
Woodbine House
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
xvi, 300 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
288 pages : portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles seven dozen people throughout history with various physical or mental disabilities. Additional articles provide historical background on the disability rights movement.
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
©2020.
Physical Desc
106 pages, 16 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As the Opening Ceremony for the 1948 Summer Olympic Games commenced in London, a similar sporting competition was taking place a few miles away. But the men at Stoke Mandeville weren't your typical athletes. They were paralyzed World War II veterans. The games at Stoke Mandeville were so successful that they would eventually lead evolve into the Paralympics. Participants from all around the world vie for the gold medal in a variety of sports, including...
47) I funny
Author
Series
I funny volume 1
Language
English
Description
Resolving to become the world's greatest stand-up comedian despite less-than-funny challenges in his life, wheelchair-bound middle school student Jamie Grimm endures bullying from his mean-spirited cousin and hopes he will be fairly judged when he enters a local comedy contest.
48) Sweet bean paste
Author
Publisher
Oneworld
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is just a distant memory. With only the blossoming of the cherry trees to mark the passing of time, he spends his days in a tiny confectionery shop selling dorayaki, a type of pancake filled with sweet bean paste. But everything is about to change. Into his life comes Tokue, an elderly woman with disfigured hands and a troubled past. Tokue makes the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author of Blindsided "gives a voice to the voiceless—the chronically disabled who, in our health-conscious society, are defined by their disease" (Providence [RI] Journal).
New York Times–bestselling author Richard M. Cohen spent three years chronicling the lives of five diverse "citizens of sickness": Denise, who suffers from ALS; Buzz, whose Christian faith helps him deal with his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; Sarah,...
New York Times–bestselling author Richard M. Cohen spent three years chronicling the lives of five diverse "citizens of sickness": Denise, who suffers from ALS; Buzz, whose Christian faith helps him deal with his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; Sarah,...
Author
Series
I funny volume 4
Language
English
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
Series
How-to-do-it manuals for libraries volume no. 181
Publisher
Neal-Schuman Publishers Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xix, 139 pages ; 28 cm.
Language
English
54) Out of my heart
Author
Language
English
Description
"Melody, the huge-hearted heroine of Out of My Mind, is a year older, and a year braver. And now with her Medi-talker, she feels nothing's out of her reach, not even summer camp. There have to be camps for differently-abled kids like her, and she's going to sleuth one out. A place where she can trek through a forest, fly on a zip line, and even ride on a horse! A place where maybe she really can finally make a real friend, make her own decisions,...
55) Godkiller
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Gods are forbidden in the kingdom of Middren. Formed by human desires and fed by their worship, there are countless gods in the world--but after a great war, the new king outlawed them and now pays "godkillers" to destroy any who try to rise from the shadows. As a child, Kissen saw her family murdered by a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing them and enjoys it. But all this changes when Kissen is tasked with helping a young noble girl with...
56) Armored
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After losing part of his left leg, former bodyguard Joshua Duffy takes a job as a mall cop to support his family, but runs into an old friend who has a much more intriguing job offer, to join a mission into the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico to broker peace between the drug cartels in the region.
60) The secret code
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Oscar, who is blind, teaches Lucy how to read his Braille book.
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