people with disabilities

Chronicles the life and career of Helen Keller, focusing on her childhood where she learned how to work with her blindness and deafness.

Written as a series of letters to her dead mother, nearly eighteen-year-old Rhea leaves Ireland for America in 1999, struggling with grief and confusion and seeking answers about her mother's past.

A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.

A father who is confined to a wheelchair apologizes to his young daughter for all the things he cannot do with her including ice skating and playing soccer. However, the girl in return describes all the wonderful things that they do together, such as making music, drawing, ice fishing, cooking, and building sand castles.

Provides a basic biography of Helen Keller discussing her early life, education, work, and later years. Features photographs, a timeline, a glossary, and further resources.

Stephen Hawking was one of the greatest minds of our time. His theories about the universe have changed the way we think about black holes and the Big Bang. Learn more in this biography about the physicist on wheels who traveled the world.

When thirteen-year-old Kerry takes a job as companion to a handicapped girl whose mother runs a stables, she knows she eventually will have to deal with a past incident that has made her want to stay away from the horses she once loved.

In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda after she repels the advances of the cruel archdeacon Don Claude Frollo.

Get ready to play as you learn from children about their adaptive equipment or "tools" that help them to navigate their days. Playful rhyme and vibrant colors come together as you dive into their imaginations. From the depths of the ocean to the reaches of outer space, all children are capable of learning, inclusion, and play!--Back cover.

"Ten animals--nine non-human and one human--take the reader on ten journeys, where, in each case, an animal in need of rescue overcomes their issues, and goes on to help people overcome theirs"--Back cover.