handicapped

In a futuristic society sixteen-year-old Gem discovers that a group of handicapped people who call themselves the Waterbound live hidden beneath the City.

Introduction to tools that help disabled people who can't see, hear, or walk everyday.

Children in a writing workshop describe the lives of ten young people with special needs, including a boy with fetal alcohol syndrome, a girl with cerebral palsy, and a boy with dyslexia.

A brief biography of the life and courage of Helen Keller, who lost her sight and hearing at a young age, and who, with the help of her teacher Anne Sullivan, learned to read and write.

Contains brief biographies of Tom Thumb; Robert Wadlow, a giant; Chang and Eng, Siamese twins; Joseph Merrick, Julia Pastrana, and Herrmann Unthan.

Encourages those with physical handicaps not to allow those handicaps to change them.

Explains what physical and mental disabilities are and how people cope with them.

Information on how disabled people can access more than fifty different physical activities.

Gideon is sixteen-years-old, deaf, and unable to speak. A friend finds him work on a canal barge. All is well until the day he takes the initiative.