Twelve-year-old Eva's chaotic but cheerful family life in a small English town changes when Gideon, her brain-damaged deaf older brother, gets a job opening bridges and locks for the local canalboat.
Covers the history of the Special Olympics, the various events in which mentally and physically handicapped athletes compete, and some of the people involved in this international competition.
Sent to spend the summer in the country, three foster children and an older woman recovering from a serious accident are abandoned by their slovenly caretaker and must try to survive on their own.
Describes the rights of people with disabilities in the areas of education, employment, housing, and transportation and the efforts being made to secure these rights.
An introduction to disabilities that discusses why people need wheelchairs, different types of wheelchairs, how being in a wheelchair may affect a person, famous individuals with disabilities, and other related topics.
Ann Fay is concerned about her family after she returns from the polio hospital and discovers that her father is changed after fighting in World War II, but the opportunity to receive treatment in Georgia offers her comfort, until she gets news that her family is getting worse.
A high school athlete, frustrated at being handicapped after an accident, runs away from home and is helped back to mental and physical health by a black benefactor and the people in a special school where he enrolls.
