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21) Rain reign
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Children's Books- Disabilities and Neurodiversity
If You Like One and Only Ivan, Read These!
Womens History Month - JF
If You Like One and Only Ivan, Read These!
Womens History Month - JF
Description
Struggling with Asperger's, Rose shares a bond with her beloved dog, but when the dog goes missing during a storm, Rose is forced to confront the limits of her comfort levels, even if it means leaving her routines in order to search for her pet.
22) Real
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Sometimes Charity cannot control her body and because she has low-functioning autism, Charity cannot communicate her thoughts to anyone else, even though she feels all of the frustrations, fears, and doubts of a typical thirteen-year-old.
23) Bouncing back
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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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.
24) One-handed catch
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Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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Description
After losing his hand in an accident in his father's butcher shop in 1946, sixth-grader Norman uses hard work and humor to learn to live with his disability and to succeed at baseball, art, and other activities.
25) Spirits among us
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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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...
26) All he knew
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
In 1939 six-year-old Henry, who is deaf, is taken from his family and placed in a home for the feeble-minded where, years later, his friends include a conscientious objector serving there during World War II. Includes historical notes.
29) The Boney Hand
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When a Castle-on-the-Hudson school legend suddenly goes missing, Charlie is the prime suspect but he and his best friend, Frog, are determined to find the real culprit.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In Edison, New Jersey, in a museum devoted to the inventor Thomas Edison, a loner sixteen-year-old girl with a limb difference and the seemingly coolest boy in school spend the night during a snowstorm, growing close until a shameful secret threatens everything.
31) Wild blues
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Lizzie relates, through a victim statement, her harrowing journey through the Adirondacks seeking her disabled friend, Matias, who was kidnapped by escaped convicts.
33) Family reminders
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Description
In 1890s Cripple Creek, Colorado, when young Mary McHugh's father loses his leg in a mining accident, she tries to help, both by earning money and by encouraging her father to go back to carving wooden figurines and playing piano.
36) Happy again
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"An easy-to-read story about Lucas the lion who learns how to live life with a physical disability with help from his friends and family"--
37) All in pieces
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A girl struggles to take care of her younger brother with special needs while confronting her own anger issues"--
38) Time to roll
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
When thirteen-year-old Ellie reluctantly agrees to enter a beauty pageant with her best friend Coralee, the director seems determined to feature Ellie and her wheelchair, so she must find a way to participate on her own terms, all while saving her friendship and forming a better relationship with her divorced dad.
39) Roll with it
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease.
40) The good thieves
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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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.
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