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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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An anthology of stories in various genres, featuring disabled characters and written by disabled creators, ranging from established best selling authors to debut authors.
An anthology of stories in various genres, each featuring disabled characters and written by disabled creators. The collection includes stories of interstellar war, a journey to Persia, a dating debacle. The teenaged characters reflect diverse colors, genders, and orientations--...
63) The degenerates
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In 1928, Maxine, Rose, Alice, and London face vicious attendants and bullying older girls at the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded, each determined to change her fate at all costs. Includes historical notes about eugenics.
Author
Series
Moses volume 3
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
2003
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.
65) Soccer machine
Author
Series
Aven Green volume 4
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old expert soccer player Aven Green learns to share the spotlight and be a good team player when her friend Sujata joins the team.
67) Running on empty
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After his grandfather dies, eleven-year-old JJ, a talented runner, assumes new responsibilities including taking care of his intellectually-challenged parents and figuring out how bills get paid.
68) Shark girl
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007
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.
71) Girl, stolen
Author
Series
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
Tuttle Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After the 1783 eruption of Japan's Mount Asama destroys crops in nearby villages, a orphaned blind girl who lives at the Daruma Temple in Takasaki invents a doll representing a famed Buddhist monk and his teachings about resilience.
73) Blindsided
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After years of failing eyesight, fourteen-year-old Natalie reluctantly enters a school for the blind, where in spite of her initial resistance she learns the skills that will help her survive in the sighted world.
74) Safe at second
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Paulie Lockwood's best friend Todd Bannister is destined for the major leagues until a line drive to the head causes him to lose an eye and they both must find a new future for themselves.
77) The garden wall
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Already unhappy that his family has moved from the country to the city, Tim is not pleased when his new neighbor turns out to be not only a girl, but also deaf.
78) Spirits among us
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Scooter has been wheelchair bound ever since the accident that took her mother's life. Carrying on her mother's ghost hunting work, Scooter and her best friend Harlan create a YouTube show called Spirits Among Us. Wanting to get a message from her mother before she passes over, Scooter buys a special ghost hunting camera and places it in her family's cemetery. But, when a string of robberies frighten the locals, will the camera capture more than a...
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