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62) 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.
64) 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.
66) Girl, stolen
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an impulsive carjacking turns into a kidnapping, Griffin, a high school dropout, finds himself more in sympathy with his wealthy, blind victim, sixteen-year-old Cheyenne, than with his greedy father.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells her a cautionary tale of the one-armed sister, and what happens to girls who disobey their mothers and go into the Baxter's Tunnels. Now Lala lives on the beach with her husband, Adan, a petty criminal with endless charisma whose thwarted burglary of one of the beach mansions sets off a chain of events with terrible consequences. -- adapted from jacket
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 286 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Based on the New York Times series, About Us captures the voices of a community that has been stereotyped and misrepresented. Speaking The authors in About Us offer intimate stories of how they navigate a world not built for them.... the stories here reveal the range of responses, and the variety of consequences, to being labeled as "disabled" by the broader public."
70) 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...
71) Louisiana's song
Author
Series
Maggie Valley series volume 2
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Livy Two is happy that Daddy is finally out of his coma, but the befuddled man who comes home is not the daddy the Weems family once knew. He forgets their names, he wanders off—he won’t even touch his beloved banjo. Set in Appalachia in 1963, this heartwarming, and heart-wrenching, follow-up to Gentle’s Holler is narrated by the irrepressible Livy Two, and traces the ups and downs of her large mountain family. Shy and awkward 11-year-old...
Author
Series
Janine (Maryann Cocca-Leffler) volume 2
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Janine is good at a lot of things like singing, cheering, and spelling big words. But she is not very good at sports--her body just doesn't work like the other kids'. On field day at school, Janine tries her best to finish each challenge"--
76) Deafness
Author
Series
Publisher
KidHaven Publishing, an imprint of Greenhaven Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Readers discover what it's like to live with deafness in this thoughtful look at one different way of interacting with the world. Important facts about deafness are presented through simple text and eye-catching fact boxes that are paired with colorful photographs. These facts supplement a compelling narrative that gives readers a chance to examine different points of view and see the world from the perspective of a person who is deaf. This helps...
78) Best day ever!
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sweet dog-loves-kid/kid-loves-dog story, in which the kid uses a wheelchair, from an award-winning children's poet and talented debut illustrator.
79) Impossible music
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In a class for the newly deaf, former musician Simon meets G and his quest to create an entirely new form of music helps him better understand her, himself, and his relationship to the hearing world.
80) 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.
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