physically handicapped

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physically handicapped

Fair and square

1992
Tired of others letting him win at games, Kevin, a physically handicapped boy, learns how to win fair and square when he competes against a computer.

When I grow up

1994
Jimmy, who is deaf, attends Career Day where he meets deaf adults with varied and interesting careers, who communicate using sign language. Includes diagrams illustrating signs for some of the words in the text.

Midnight in the dollhouse

1992
A family of dolls helps their young owner, who has been left lame by an accident, find a clue to hidden treasure.

Seth of the Lion People

1994
Although Seth, a young teenager with a twisted leg, is only tolerated by his tribe for his storytelling abilities, he senses his people are on the brink of a transition from hunters to artisans and growers of food.

The cross-eyed rabbit

1988
A visually-impaired rabbit comes to the aid of his two brothers when a fox threatens their lives.

Out of darkness

the story of Louis Braille
1998
A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.

Una nina lladmada Helen Keller

1998
Tells about the life of Helen Keller.

Lucy's picture

1997
A young girl creates a special picture that her blind grandfather can "see" with his hands.

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