people with disabilities

After Emma makes the swim team her best friend, Izzie, (who did not make it) has started to avoid her, and Emma fears that she will have to choose between the swim team and her friendship.

Emma loves animals and is looking forward to taking care of her neighbor's dog, Lily, for the weekend, with some help from her brother--but disaster threatens when Lily slips her leash and runs away. Includes an ASL fingerspelling chart and a sign language guide.

Before the 'accident' Genie was an aspiring ballerina, a star pupil at her exclusive New York dance school, now she is a bitter teenager, permanently confined to a wheelchair, shutting herself off from her friends, her beloved teacher, and even her mother; but at physical therapy she meets Kyle, a gymnast whose traumatic brain injury has landed him in therapy--and through their growing friendship Genie realizes that she has to confront the things around her: like the booze her mother is hiding, or the fact that maybe her fall was not entirely accidental.

"For twelve-year-old Autumn Holloway, a week at Blazing Hoops wheelchair basketball camp is a dream come true. She has high hopes that it will be her ticket to making friends and connections in the adaptive sports community. But Autumn struggles to fit in with her wealthier fellow campers. To make matters worse, she has to use a borrowed basketball wheelchair that keeps needing repairs. It takes a chance encounter with the campus custodial staff to help Autumn realize that, no matter where she's from or how she speaks, she belongs at camp--and on the court--just as much as anyone else"--Provided by publisher.

"This is the story of 17-time Paralympic medalist Tatyana McFadden. Born with spina bifida in Russia, Tatyana was raised in an orphanage where she walked on her hands for the first six years of her life. In 1994, she was adopted and moved to the United States, where she started racing and breaking records; and is now considered the best female wheelchair racer of all time, and the fastest woman on Earth"--Amazon.com.

"What is color blindness, and how does it affect a person's everyday life? Readers discover the answers to these questions and more as they follow a narrative about what it's like to live with color blindness and what it's like to have a friend who has this condition. Clear and concise text provides relatable examples, and fact boxes add helpful information. In addition, full-color photographs enhance this reading experience, which provides a valuable exercise in developing empathy and understanding different perspectives. The sensitive tone and age-appropriate language make this a valuable resource for young readers"--Provided by the publisher.

Rob Mendez, who was born without limbs, shares his journey to first become independent and then to become a high school football coach in the Bay Area.

"In this essayistic autobiography, Jan Grue reflects on social structures, disability, loss, relationships, and the body: in short, on what it means to be human"--Provided by publisher.

In 1920s New York City, a young girl with a deformed foot recruits her new friends, a female pickpocket and two circus performers, to help recover an emerald from her grandfather's mansion in upstate New York after he loses his home to an unscrupulous tycoon.

"All Our Families: Finding Our Disability Lineages argues that disability is stigmatized because it is delineated-excised from our understanding of family, cut out from the story a family tells about itself, and proposes how finding and integrating disability in our family would transform our lived experiences of both family and disability"--Provided by publisher.