On a small Florida orange grove in the 1960s, fourteen-year-old Kady Palmer, burdened with caring for her senile grandmother and mentally handicapped neighbor, devises a plan to spend time with her new, rich, handsome boyfriend.
Since his grandmother spends so much time sitting by the window in her wheelchair, watching the birds, Nicolas decides to give her a golden cage of birds of her own for Christmas.
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
Text and photographs discuss past and present concerns of the physically handicapped and the medical aspects of handicaps; includes an appendix of new tools and technologies for their benefit.
When sixteen-year-old Ellen Gray finds herself attracted to the lawyer in charge of the malpractice case related to her four-year-old brother's cerebral palsy, she becomes involved in the trial and gains a new perspective on her own life and options for her future.
When two lonely teenagers, one the son of a widower rabbi and the other the sister of an autistic twin, are drawn together by a tragic accident, they discover they have more in common than they guessed.
Recently blinded in an auto accident, Angie begins to come to terms with her handicap when she tries to find out who is sabotaging the summer camp for disabled children she is attending.
