handicapped

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handicapped

Helping Sophia

2008
The third-graders in Miss K's class all get a chance to help Sophia push her wheelchair while her usual helper is gone.

Stand straight, Ella Kate

the true story of a real giant
2010
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.

The Dagger Quick

2011
Twelve-year-old Christopher "Kitto" Wheale, a clubfooted boy seemingly doomed to follow in the boring footsteps of his father as a cooper in seventeenth-century England, finds himself on a dangerous seafaring adventure with his newly discovered uncle, the infamous pirate William Quick.

The great quarterback switch

2009
Twelve-year-old Michael, confined to a wheelchair after an accident, uses mental telepathy to communicate football plays to his quarterback twin brother Tom, then suddenly finds himself on the field in his brother's place.

The story of beautiful girl

2011
Lynnie, a woman with a developmental disability and limited speech who has fallen in love with deaf resident Homan while living at the Pennsylvania State School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, escapes with Homan and finds refuge in the home of widow Martha, and, before the authorities come to take her back to the school, Lynnie gives birth to a daughter and asks Martha to raise her, until forty years later when they are all given the opportunity to reunite.

The beginning of everything

2013
"Star athelete and prom king Ezra Faulkner's life is irreparably transformed by a tragic accident and the arrival of eccentric new girl Cassidy Thorpe"--Provided by publisher.

Also known as Harper

2011
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.

Living with a brother or sister with special needs

a book for sibs
1985
Explains common disabilities and strategies to meet the challenges of living with a disabled sibling.

I am Helen Keller

2012
A biography of deaf and blind human rights activist Helen Keller.

Shaolin tiger

Book 3 of the Samurai Kids series
2011
Sensei Ki-yaga leads the disabled samurai-in-training of the Cockroach Ryu across the Sea of Japan to China, where they study the ways of the Shaolin monks before facing Qing-Shen, a skilled soldier seeking revenge against his former teacher, the Sensei.

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