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1) Rules
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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Description
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.
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
If You Like Percy Jackson, Read These!
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Description
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
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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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 there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
Author
Series
Moses volume 1
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
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Description
Moses and his schoolmates, all deaf, attend a concert where the orchestra's percussionist is also deaf. Includes illustrations in sign language and a page showing the manual alphabet.
Author
Series
Moses volume 2
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
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Description
Moses and his friends enjoy the first day of school at their special school for the deaf and hard of hearing, where they use sign language to talk to each other.
10) Rolf
Author
Series
Dog diaries volume 10
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
"A dachshund loses his hind leg in an accident and finds his life's calling as a therapy dog."--
12) McKenna
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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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.
14) The fire keeper
Author
Series
Storm runner volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Zane Obispo faces an impossible choice--to save other godborns like himself from the angry gods, or rescue his father, Hurakan, from his eternal prison.
15) The book of Boy
Author
Language
English
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Children's Books- Disabilities and Neurodiversity
Fantastical Fiction - JF
Historical Fiction - JF
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Fantastical Fiction - JF
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Description
In 1350, a boy with a large hump on his back becomes the servant of a shadowy pilgrim on his way to Rome, who pulls the boy into a dangerous expedition across Europe to gather the seven precious relics of Saint Peter.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Children's Books- Disabilities and Neurodiversity
Historical Fiction- MID/ JF
If You Like Anne of Green Gables, Read These!
Historical Fiction- MID/ JF
If You Like Anne of Green Gables, Read These!
Description
A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
Fifth-grader Cally Louise Fisher stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates.
18) Presley's smile
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Every kid knows what it's like to have challenges and can relate to Presley, a beautiful little girl with a fantastic smile. You see, Presley has been working with doctors to fix her legs since birth. One thing that has never needed to be fixed is that smile.
19) A time to dance
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
In India, a girl who excels at Bharatanatyam dance refuses to give up after losing a leg in an accident.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Description
Allie helps Jesse, her older, mentally disabled brother on his way to school and endures the taunts of other children, but she does not understand why God made Jesse the way he is until she takes the time to "walk in his shoes" for a while.
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