physically handicapped

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physically handicapped

Stuck in neutral

2001
Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him.

Jim Abbott

All-American pitcher
1993
Discusses the life and career of the first player in baseball history to have only one hand.

Freak the Mighty

1993
At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team.

Stuck in neutral

2000
Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him.

Helen Keller

2007
This book introduces the life and accomplishments of Helen Keller, who became the first blind and deaf person to graduate from a college and who became an author.

Susan laughs

2000
Rhyming couplets describe a wide range of common emotions and activities experienced by a little girl who uses a wheelchair.

Max learns sign language

2007
Max takes a sign language class after school to learn to talk with his friend Susan, who is deaf.

Disabled fables

Aesop's fables
2004
Presents retellings of fourteen tales by Aesop, selected and illustrated by artists with developmental disabilities.

The secret garden

1995
Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

Helen Keller

1999
A simple introduction to the life of the blind and deaf woman who changed the world's opinions about disabilities such as her own.

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