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2) Rules
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Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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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...
5) My buddy
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Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
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A young boy with muscular dystrophy tells how he is teamed up with a dog trained to do things for him that he can't do for himself.
6) Dangerous
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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2024 Summer Reading: Kick-Off Kaboom
Disability Pride Month
Science Fiction - YA
YA Once Upon A Summer Reading
Disability Pride Month
Science Fiction - YA
YA Once Upon A Summer Reading
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When aspiring astronaut Maisie Danger Brown, who was born without a right hand, and the other space camp students get the opportunity to do something amazing in space, Maisie must prove how dangerous she can be and how far she is willing to go to protect everything she has ever loved.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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A debut contemporary novel about 11-year-old aspiring magician Ethan, who discovers that heroes come in all sizes, and real magic can be found in the most unexpected places. When life revolves around stressed-out parents and ER visits for his special needs little brother Jake, eleven-year-old Ethan escapes to a world of top hats, trick decks, and magic wands. When he hears of a junior magic competition where the top prize is to meet and perform with...
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Series
Janine (Maryann Cocca-Leffler) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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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"--
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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A new gripping Bronze Age story from Wendy Orr, internationally acclaimed author of Dragonfly Song and Swallow's Dance Clio can't remember a time when she didn't share a bond with the mare Grey Girl. On the whole island of Crete, she and her Trojan-born father are the only people who raise and ride horses-and she couldn't live without it. Between the freedom of the pasture and the safety of her grandmother Leira's pottery studio, Clio has always had...
10) The storm runner
Author
Series
Storm runner volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Children's Books- Disabilities and Neurodiversity
Disability Pride Month
If You Like Percy Jackson, Read These!
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Disability Pride Month
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To prevent the Mayan gods from battling each other and destroying the world, thirteen-year-old Zane must unravel an ancient prophecy, stop an evil god, and discover how the physical disability that makes him reliant on a cane also connects him to his father and his ancestry.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest kid in his grade, and everyone knows he can barely read or write. Mason's learning disabilities are compounded by grief. Fifteen months ago, Mason's best friend, Benny Kilmartin, turned up dead in the Buttle family's orchard. An investigation drags on, and Mason, honest as the day is long, can't understand why Lieutenant Baird won't believe the story Mason has told about that day. Both Mason and his new friend,...
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.
13) I will dance
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Eva's cerebral palsy makes it difficult for her to do many things, but she longs to dance and, finally, her dream is realized. Includes author's note and information about Young Dance Company.
Author
Series
Storm runner volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"When a few Mexica gods try to put their Maya counterparts out of commission, it's up to Zane and some godborns-in-training to save the universe"--
Author
Series
Moses volume 3
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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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.
19) Robot revolution
Author
Series
House of robots volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
fter a few early glitches in their relationship, Sammy and his "bro-bot" E are now fast friends. In fact, E is such a valued member of the family that the other electronic occupants of the House of Robots are feeling sorely unappreciated. And when Sammy's inventor mom becomes distracted by a top-secret project, the robots soon begin to fall into disrepair. Cue a robot revolt, with the droids wreaking harmless havoc in the house! Armed with pranks...
20) Happy again
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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"--
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