physically handicapped

Hannah, a blind girl living in Michigan in the late nineteenth century, doesn't go to school until a new teacher tells her about the Braille method of reading for the blind.

Describes several aspects of spinal cord injury, including its history, diagnosis, and treatment; recovery and rehabilitation; coping with such an injury; and breakthroughs and future possibilities in research, including stem cell research. Also includes a time line, a glossary, and a list of related resources.

College students Butch, who is deaf, and Ben, who is blind, suspect foul play when one of their friends, a star athlete, has a heart attack during a football game and dies soon after.

Erick wonders why the apartment across the street is for rent so often. He knows something must be wrong when he sees a horrible-looking man staring out the empty apartment's window. Erick and his friend Trung decide to snoop around to learn what's going on.

Even though life with cerebral palsy isn't easy for twelve-year-old Sarah, she manages with the help of her loving family and several new friends.

In 1946 twelve-year-old Keely is devastated when her older brother Patrick is paralyzed by polio, and she starts a campaign to reawaken his waning interest in life.

Young, blind Hershel finds that he has special gifts he can use to help his mother during the Jewish holiday of Purim. Features a recipe for hamantashen.

Twelve-year-old Ellen's loathing for her new baby brother Barry, who has cerebral palsy, gradually changes to a fierce, obsessive love, and she must find a proper balance for her life.

A mermaid who cannot speak is banished from her undersea home and sent to live on land as a human where she is found by a 12-year-old girl with a hearing impairment.

Sarah Jean seems to get along better with horses than with other kids, until the realization that she is hearing impaired brings her a hearing aid and friends.