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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Her promising career in 1960s London interrupted by an affair with a married professor that renders her a single mother, Jessica Speight faces wrenching questions about responsibility, potential, and compassion when her sunny child reveals unique needs.
5) Just because
Author
Publisher
Lion Children's
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Toby thinks his big sister Clemmie is the best.
7) Susan laughs
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Rhyming couplets describe a wide range of common emotions and activities experienced by a little girl who uses a wheelchair.
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, twelve-year-old Jonathan Palmer must find a way to keep himself, his partially paralyzed younger sister, and their dog alive until help arrives.
10) The Ables
Author
Series
Publisher
Clovercroft Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The story of a teenager named Phillip who is blind and is told by his father that Phillip has telekinetic powers. He attends a school for those with similar powers but soon finds that others harass him because he is put in a special education class. He and his friends call themselves the Ables and discover that a malevolent force is going after humans.
11) Janine
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Janine is one of a kind. She focuses on the positive while navigating life with disabilities. She makes a difference just by being herself"--
Author
Series
Aven Green volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Third-grader Aven Green has been solving mysteries for a whole month, cracking such cases as The Mystery of the Cranky Mom. But can this perceptive detective solve two cases at the same time? First her teacher's lunch bag disappears. Then Aven's great-grandma's dog goes missing. Fortunately, since Aven was born without arms, all the "arm" cells went to her super-powered brain instead. (That's her theory.)"--
13) A tree for Peter
Author
Publisher
Purple House Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When Peter, a fatherless lame boy living in Shantytown, meets Peter King, a mysterious, wandering stranger, his lonely life becomes filled with hope, friendship, and even miracles.
Author
Series
I funny novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic finals near, Jamie faces a whirlwind of attention at school and in the media and the fame starts to go to his head, but in Hollywood with Uncle Frankie, some of his fellow comedians quickly show him what competition and pressure are all about.
15) Look up!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When a girl in a wheelchair calls to people far below to look up and see her, one finds a way to brighten her day.
18) Henry the boy
Author
Publisher
Penny Candy Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Henry, a boy with cerebral palsy, goes to school and plays with his friend Joel.
20) The rescue
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the face of raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteer fireman Taylor McAden feels compelled to take terrifying risks to save lives. But there is one leap of faith Taylor can't bring himself to make: he can't fall in love. For all his adult years, Taylor has sought out women who need to be rescued, women he leaves as soon as their crisis is over and the relationship starts to become truly intimate. When a raging storm hits his small Southern...
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