physically handicapped

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physically handicapped

Triangle

1994
Eighteen-year-old Jeremy begins a secret affair with Joy, the girlfriend of his paralyzed best friend, which threatens to endanger her chances of leading her softball team to victory in the state tournament.

Pickles

1988
When Sarah is permanently disabled in an accident, she continues to ride the once-abused pony she nursed back to health and even enters a race.

Laurent Clerc

the story of his early years
1991
A fictionalized autobiography in which the voice of Laurent Clerc describes his boyhood in France as a deaf student and his development of his own progressive methods to teach the deaf.

Nick's secret

2000
Nick, a deaf seventh grader, befriends a mysterious girl who is training and protecting a pack of valuable sheepdogs on her own.

Wheels for walking

1983
After a car accident severs her spinal cord, eighteen-year-old Sally faces a long and painful adjustment to life as a quadriplegic.

Fanny

1987
Most of the farm animals avoid talking to Fanny, the three-legged cat, mistakenly thinking she would be embarrassed about her physical handicap.

Journey to the bright kingdom

1979
The mice of Kakure-sato grant a blind woman temporary sight during the journey she and her kind daughter make to their magical underground kingdom.

Accidents of nature

2007
Having always prided herself on blending in with "normal" people despite her cerebral palsy, seventeen-year-old Jean begins to question her role in the world while attending a summer camp for children with disabilities.

The hunchback of Notre Dame

1996
Based on Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame, " a story in which Quasimodo, locked away in a bell tower all his life, bravely ventures out into the streets of Paris and becomes a hero.

The quiet revolution

the struggle for the rights of disabled Americans
1979
Focuses on the human and civil rights the handicapped are campaigning for, and on the various methods they are using to bring change to society and make it more aware of the needs of the disabled.

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