amputees

In 1890s Cripple Creek, Colorado, when young Mary McHugh's father loses his leg in a mining accident, she tries to help, both by earning money and by encouraging her father to go back to carving wooden figurines and playing piano.

Skylar Evans, a Creek View girl who, if she is a typical Creek View girl, has a future of graveyard shifts and unwed pregnancies. She is not typical, and is set to go to art school at the end of summer--that is, until her mother loses her job. Taking a job at Paradise motel off California's Highway 99, Skylar meets Josh, a young war veteran who has lost his confidence. Friendship blossoms, and then something deeper, but it may not last.

A year after the shark attack that took her arm, Jane is realizing that everything she used to take for granted has gone from her. She probably can't be an artist--instead she wonders if it is her duty to give back in some way, such as being a nurse. Then there are boy issues, as her old crush Max comes back into her life at the same time as another cute boy from her science class expresses his feelings for her.

A dachshund loses a leg and finds his life s calling as a therapy dog!.

Thirteen-year-old Sofia has always felt different and alone, and surviving the cancer that left her with a prosthetic leg has only deepened that sense. But when she comes into possession of an ancient book that acts as a portal for the Greek philosopher Xeno, she finds herself serving as the Guardian, protector of monsters. And life as she once knew it, will never be the same.

In India, a girl who excels at Bharatanatyam dance refuses to give up after losing a leg in an accident.

Skylar Evans, seventeen, yearns to escape Creek View by attending art school, but after her mother's job loss puts her dream at risk, a rekindled friendship with Josh, who joined the Marines to get away then lost a leg in Afghanistan, and her job at the Paradise motel lead her to appreciate her home town.

After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future.

" ... [a] memoir from a physical therapist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the birthplace of physical therapy and the world leader in prosthetic rehabilitation for injured war veterans"--Provided by publisher.

When her father returns from the Iraq War as an amputee with post-traumatic stress disorder, Hannah escapes by volunteering to work with rescued horses, never thinking that the abused horses could also help her father recover.