Twenty-three-year-old Carrie Bell, engaged to her high school sweetheart, is ready to make a break from a life that has become suffocating in its sameness, but her decision is complicated when her fiancee is paralyzed in a diving accident and everyone expects her to stay and care for him.
Kaz, angry all the time since he was scarred in an accident and his parents divorced, finds life spiraling out of control when he accidently knocks an elderly lady over in the park and then makes the irrational decision to steal her purse rather than help her up.
After eleven-year-old Lupe is partially paralyzed in an accident in her Mexican village, other handicapped people help her realize that her life can still have purpose.
Presents a novel written in free verse about twelve-year-old southern Saskatchewan farmgirl Emaline Bitterman's physical and emotional healing after an accident leaves her disabled and her father's guilt drives him away.
An introduction to safety that provides information on staying safe in the home, outdoors, during a fire, while online, when crossing a road, in a car, and on a bike; and discusses strangers and being around animals.
