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21) 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.
22) 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
[2004]
Language
English
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Description
Nine-year-old Sarah is excited about summer vacation, but she faces unexpected crises when her best friend Paige becomes old enough to join a local girls' clique, and when she makes choices which affect her relationship with an elderly blind neighbor.
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Children's Books- Disabilities and Neurodiversity
Disability Pride Month
If You Like Wings of Fire, Read These!
Disability Pride Month
If You Like Wings of Fire, Read These!
Description
Yearning for life in a cloistered scriptorium, thirteen-year-old Princess Matilda, whose lame foot brings fear of the evil eye, escapes her scheming cousin Ivo and joins her servant Judith and an old friend, Parz, in hunting dragons and writing about them.
26) Cursed
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"Depicts young teen Ricky Bloom's struggles with her recent chronic illness diagnosis, which comes amid family upheaval and challenges at school."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
Writing poetry helps fifth-grader Harper Lee Morgan cope with her father's absence, being evicted, and having to skip school to care for her brother while their mother works, and things look even brighter after she befriends a mute girl and a kindly disabled woman.
28) Stranded
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Koby, who has lost a foot in an accident, sees a chance to prove her self-reliance to her parents when she tries to rescue two stranded pilot whales near her home in the Florida Keys.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"17-year-old Gwen Castle is a working-class girl determined to escape her small island town, but when rich-kid Cass Somers, with whom she has a complicated romantic history, shows up, she's forced to reassess her feelings about her loving, complex family, her lifelong best friends, her wealthy employer, the place she lives, and the boy she can't admit she loves"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
Eleven-year-old tomboy Lucy feels betrayed by everyone when a bobcat stalks the neighborhood, her friend Mora suddenly becomes boy-crazy about Lucy's best friend, and the town considers selling the soccer field where she plays.
32) Ninja Nate
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Nathaniel adopts a ninja alter ego to help him adjust to a new disability.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
A fictionalized biography of Ella Kate Ewing, born in 1872, who was eight feet tall by the age of seventeen and who became financially independent by traveling the country for nearly twenty years appearing at museums, exhibitions, and in circus shows.
34) Song for a whale
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Iris and her grandmother, both deaf, drive from Texas to Alaska armed with Iris's plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with other whales.
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
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Houston and his younger brother Robbie dream of becoming astronauts, but when Houston is accepted to the Junior Astronaut Recruitment Program he realizes that Robbie's dream may not be achievable due to his cerebral palsy, so he makes a new plan that shoots for the stars.
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