wheelchairs

Simple text and illustrations discuss the challenges of being in a wheelchair, why some children cannot walk, and how those who use a wheelchair function at school and at play.

Josiah talks about a day in his life with his wheelchair "Wheely".

In 1880, Noah's aunt teaches the reluctant nine-year-old how to read as they explore the Colorado prairie together, Noah pushing Aunt Dora in her wheelchair.

When Lauretta tries out a 92-speed, silver and gold, dirt-bike wheelchair, she gets a speeding ticket but also helps out her brother.

After sixteen-year-old Riley Rose, an atheist, is tricked into spending her summer at a religious camp, she meets Dylan Kier, an alumni camper who has recently become a paraplegic, and the pair finds common ground with one another while questioning the Christian belief system, their individual faiths, and love.

When an accident requires Arnie to use crutches, he begins to understand the limits and possibilities of his new classmate, who has a wheelchair.

Harry, a new student at Bear Country School who is disabled and uses a wheelchair, has trouble making friends until the others discover that he is really very much like them.

A young girl relates all the ways she and her best friend, Sarah, are alike, in spite of the fact that Sarah uses a wheelchair.

A boy's wonderful mama takes him zooming everywhere with her, because her wheelchair is a zooming machine.

Photographs and simple text teach young readers what it is like to be in a wheelchair and describe the various challenges they might face.