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2) Hear me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"After being diagnosed with progressive hearing loss, Rayne resists her parents' efforts to "fix" her and rethinks her own assumptions about what her condition means for her"-- Provided by publisher.
4) Rules
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
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
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
When Emily sees her developmentally disabled classmate Belinda being attacked, she does nothing at all. Belinda, however, manages to save herself. When their high school finds out what happened, Emily and Lucas, a football player who was also there that night, are required to perform community service at a center for disabled people. But can they do anything that will actually help the one person they hurt the most?
8) Tangerine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
9) Joyride
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1974
Description
Crippled by polio, Susan struggles during her four years of high school to come to grips with her handicap and her prospects for the future.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
From the author of Courting Mr. Lincoln comes a different kind of Christmas story featuring a grown up Tiny Tim, this breathless flight through the teeming markets, shadowy passageways, and rolling brown fog of 1860s London would do Dickens proud for its surprising twists and turns, and its extraordinary heart.
It's the Christmas season, and Mr. Timothy Cratchit, not the pious child the world thought he was, has just buried his father. He's also...
12) Making waves
Author
Description
The first novel by the author of acclaimed national bestseller The Sunday Wife, now reissued in paperback. In a small Alabama town in Zion County, life is finally looking up for 20-year-old Donnette Sullivan. Having just inherited her aunt's old house and beauty shop, she's taken over the business. Her husband, Tim, recently crippled in an accident, is beginning to cope not only with his disability but also with the loss of his dreams. Once a promising...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2025.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
After surviving a school shooting that left her feeling helpless in her wheelchair, Bea finds healing and empowerment through horseback riding therapy and begins to advocate for change.
14) Hannah
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Nine-year-old Hannah, living on a farm in 1887 Michigan, is referred to as 'poor Hannah' because she is blind. In this brief historical novel, Hannah tells of a turning point in her life when Miss Robbin, the new teacher, comes to board with them and eventually persuades the family to let Hannah attend school.
Author
Publisher
Doral Pub
Pub. Date
1998
Description
"A tale of a little dog with a spinal injury who is adopted from the veterinary hospital and fitted with all sorts of contraptions to help him get around. Finally a little wheelchair of his own is devised and he becomes happy and independent. Appeal is to all children; teaches appreciation for the handicapped"-- T.p. verso.
16) Pickles
Author
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
1988, c1986
Description
When Sarah is permanently disabled in an accident, she continues to ride the once-abused pony she nursed back to health and even enters a race.
18) Here comes Kate!
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Publishers
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A girl in a wheelchair learns when to go fast and when to slow down.
19) Petey
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In 1922 Petey, who has cerebral Palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized. Sixty years later, still in the institution, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy of life.
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