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Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
167 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1573, the crippled, scorned, and destitute Meggy Swann goes to London, where she meets her father, an impoverished alchemist, and eventually discovers that although her legs are bent and weak, she has many other strengths.
Author
Series
War volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
63) The intouchables
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
An irreverent, uplifting comedy about friendship, trust, and human possibility. Based on a true story of friendship between a handicapped millionaire and his street-smart ex-con caretaker, The Intouchables depicts an unlikely camaraderie rooted in honesty and humor between two individuals who, on the surface, would seem to have nothing in common.
64) McKenna
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
124 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seattle fourth-grader McKenna Brooks, who lives for gymnastics, struggles with school work until Josie, a tutor confined to a wheelchair, helps her with reading comprehension and much more.
65) Miss Spitfire
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
208 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
At age twenty-one, partially-blind, lonely but spirited Annie Sullivan travels from Massachusetts to Alabama to try and teach six-year-old Helen Keller, deaf and blind since age two, self-discipline and communication skills. Includes historical notes and timeline.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
If Effie's being honest with herself, she knows just what she wants.
She wants to enjoy all the firsts and lasts of senior year with her two best friends. She wants to go to college in NYC and major in mass media so she can make sure more disabled people like her get to see themselves represented. She's never been to New York, but she can picture the person she'll be there, far from the Minneapolis neighborhood where she's lived her entire life.
And...
67) Wonderstruck
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
637 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Editions, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lis Hartel became paralyzed after contracting polio in 1944. Her dreams of riding horses and competing in the sport of dressage were shattered. After months in the hospital, doctors told her she'd never ride again. Lis tried anyway. How do you stay on a horse without using your legs? How do you give the subtle cues needed in dressage with limited mobility? With hard work--and an unlikely horse named Jubilee. After years of training together and creating...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
n the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral lives Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer. Mocked and shunned for his appearance, he is pitied only by Esmerelda, a beautiful gypsy dancer to whom he becomes completely devoted. Esmerelda, however, has also attracted the attention of the sinister archdeacon Claude Frollo, and when she rejects his lecherous approaches, Frollo hatches a plot to destroy her, that only Quasimodo can prevent. Victor...
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcade
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod and her husband encountered their dream while vacationing on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides. Enthralled by its windswept beauty, they soon were the proud owners of a near-derelict croft house—a farmer's stone cottage—on "a small acre" of land. Mary assumed duties as the island's district nurse. Call...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following the success of his New York Times bestseller, Until Tuesday, Iraq War veteran Luis Carlos Montalvan takes to the road with his beloved Golden Retriever service dog, Tuesday, advocating for America's wounded warriors and for each other. Luis's first book sparked a national conversation about service dogs and PTSD. In this spectacular new memoir, he and Tuesday bring their healing mission to the next level, showing how these beautifully trained...
72) As brave as you
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When Genie and his older brother spend their summer in the country with their grandparents, he learns a secret about his grandfather and what it means to be brave.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
63 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Robinson learns about wheelchair rugby during Super Sports Saturday, he can't wait to try it. But then his family moves to Alabama to help take care of his grandma after she gets hurt. But Robinson's in luck--his dad tells him about an organization called the Shore that has a wheelchair rugby team. Robinson's in for quite a rush as he learns a new sport--and some important lessons about life"--Provided by publisher.
74) The good thieves
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1920s New York City, a young girl with a deformed foot recruits her new friends, a female pickpocket and two circus performers, to help recover an emerald from her grandfather's mansion in upstate New York after he loses his home to an unscrupulous tycoon.
75) Set me free
Author
Series
Show Me a Sign volume 2
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Three years after being kidnapped as a "live specimen" in a cruel experiment to determine the cause of her deafness, Mary Lambert has a grown weary of domestic life on Martha's Vineyard, and even of her once-beloved writing.
So when an old acquaintance summons her to an isolated manor house outside Boston to teach a young deaf girl to communicate, Mary agrees. But can a child of eight with no prior language be taught? And is Mary up to the task?...
76) Show Me a Sign
Author
Series
Show Me a Sign volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sonia and her friends plant a garden, and each one contributes in his or her own special way, in a book that celebrates the many differences among humans. In this warm and inclusive story by U.S. Supreme Justice Sonia Sotomayor, inspired by her own childhood diagnosis of diabetes, readers join along as differently abled kids use their strengths to work together and learn about each other.
78) Rose Wolves
Author
Series
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
One day, a little girl picks an unusual flower from a bush in the forest. Overnight, the flower blooms and turns into a magical creature: a rose wolf, missing a leg just like she is missing an arm. Together, the new friends must go on a journey to find where they belong.
Tender, moody, and captivating, Rose Wolves is an enthralling fable about disability, companionship, and transformation without using a single word.
79) The sessions
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
[English, French or Spanish dialogue version].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Paralyzed and confined to an iron lung since childhood, poet-journalist Mark O'Brien has overcome adversity time and time again. But now, at age 38, he faces his toughest challenge yet: losing his virginity. With the help of a beautiful therapist, a sympathetic priest, and his own unbridled sense of optimism and humor, Mark embarks on an extraordinary personal journey to discover the wondrous pleasures that make life worth living.
80) The falconmaster
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
167 p.:
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Wat, a crippled boy living in Norman England, rescues two baby falcons and is led to discover the grandfather he never knew and the powerful magic that resides in the deep forest and in himself.