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Understanding Grandpa’s New World is a storybook dedicated to empowering youth who live with someone with dementia. The story centers…
on a young boy nicknamed Fish who becomes aware of changes in his grandfather’s behaviour. Iris the Dragon helps Fish come to understand what dementia is while normalizing the feelings he’s experiencing. Iris helps Fish navigate how to remain connected with his grandfather and how to support him as the dementia progresses.Butterfly Wings: A Hopeful Story About Climate Anxiety
By Samuel Larochelle. 2023
Winner of the 2023 Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature—French LanguageAn honest exploration of climate anxiety, for kids 8+ and…
the adults who love them.When ten-year-old Florent overhears his mothers discussing the possibility of having another baby—and expressing their reluctance due to fears about the planet—his mind races off into a spiral of fear and guilt. Is the planet suffering because there are too many children—children like him? Do his parents think they made a mistake by bringing him into the world?One night, Florent dreams that the forests have all burned to the ground and that his parents are flying away on a spaceship, abandoning him on a ruined planet. When he wakes up, he decides to stop talking… until a discussion with his mothers changes everything.At a time when climate change is negatively impacting kids' mental health, Butterfly Wings provides:Anxiety relief: provides a safe space for kids to process their anxiety, fear, and other emotions about the climateA social-emotional learning tool for parents and teachers to talk about climate change with kids through a gentle and hopeful lensThrough thoughtful words and gorgeous illustrations, this compassionate story confronts the very real challenge of climate anxiety in a way that is accessible to young readers. Butterfly Wings provides children with a way to understand their feelings, while also offering hope for a different future.Hide and shh!: A not-so-sneaky sister story about inclusion
By Christina Dendy. 2024
Joining the fun can be tricky especially when you want to play your way. It's even trickier when you're not…
quite sure of the game's rules. Come along in this charming story as Dinah and her sister, Chloe, figure out how to be flexible and inclusive so everyone can have a great time. Flexibility is a challenging skill to learn, even for adults. However, it is an essential life skill that all children need to acquire for proper development. Hide and Shh! illustrates in a poignant way how adapting and valuing others' ideas can add to the enjoyment of allOnce in every life: A Novel
By Kristin Hannah. 1993
"Tess Gregory's brilliant career as a research scientist hides her longings for husband and child. Though deaf, she is a…
free spirit -- a woman full of life and love. She is struck down all too soon. But for Tess, a new life begins at her death, in post-Civil War America. She is now Amarylis Rafferty, wife and mother of three -- and she can hear. Shocked and disoriented by her new surroundings, she is drawn into the savage heartache burdening the family, especially her husband, Jack, a man who fears himself capable of anything." -- Provided by publisherBaggywrinkle
By Mally Cox-Chapman. 1977
A story to prove there is still magic left in the world. Baggywrinkle is the name of the boy who…
the old Beachcomber carves from a wooden mast. The wooden figure magically becomes a real boy but sadly, he's a blind boy. To gain his sight, Baggywrinkle must go on a magical quest to the River of See-Through Things. In company with the old Beachcomber and Timbuctoo, the beautiful talking bird, Baggywrinkle learns courage and persistence on a journey that becomes a great adventure...and takes him to the Very Inside of the Sun. For grades 5-8Sam, Tyrone, the Streak, and me
By R. Clifford Blair. 2021
Young Franklin Pierce Holloway doesn't know what to think when Butler Campbell moves in next door. At first Frank worries…
he'll lose his best friend Sam to the strange new kid, but everything changes as he learns all about Butler's world. Adult. Some strong language. Some violenceThe astronomically grand plan (Astrid the astronaut #01)
By Rie Neal. 2022
"Astrid is excited about her upcoming first year of Shooting Stars, a club dedicated to all things space, but now…
that her best friend Hallie is more interested in art Astrid is not sure her goal of becoming an astronaut will happen without her friend." -- Provided by publisherHaven
By Sherry Gomes. 2021
Elizabeth Bennett is seeking healing after her emotionally abusive, unscrupulous ex-husband used his family's political influence to gain sole custody…
of their daughter--on the basis that Elizabeth is blind. Michael Kelly's grief for his wife is fresh as when he lost her three years ago, but he focuses on his love for the son he is now raising alone. A good man, a good father, and a good pastor to the community, he deeply longs for companionship and love. These two people, nearly broken by disaster, meet on a snowy night that will change their lives. AdultFlipping forward twisting backward
By Alma Fullerton. 2022
"Fifth-grader Claire can do a perfect triple handspring. She can do a giant pirouette on the uneven bars. What she…
can't do is reading. With a lot of effort, she hides her secret until an alert vice principal suggests she get evaluated for a learning disability. Now Claire has to convince her mother--who's afraid her daughter will be labeled stupid--to let her get tested. And that turns out to be even harder than reading." -- Provided by publisherWorst-case Collin
By Rebecca Caprara. 2021
In the two years since his mother was killed in an automobile crash, Colin has been anticipating further disasters, writing…
down what to do in the event of an avalanche or mentally practicing the Heimlich maneuver just in case--but the real trouble is that his mathematician father is obsessed with a classic math problem and has a hoarding problem that is spiraling out of control, leaving Colin desperate to hide this chaos from his friends and everyone else, even as he struggles with his own grief. For grades 5-8Artificial divide
2021
A collection of short stories by authors who are blind or visually impaired about central characters who are blind or…
visually impaired. They write in a variety of genres including fantasy, school stories, and crime. Adult. UnratedOn a scale of 1 to 10
By Ceylan Scott. 2019
Lime Grove is home to a number of teenagers with a variety of problems: anorexia, bipolar disorder, behavior issues. Tamar…
will come to know them all very well. But there's one question she can't...won't answer: What happened to her friend Iris? As Tamar's emotional angst becomes more and more clear to her, she'll have to figure out a path to forgiveness. UnratedRugby and Rosie
By Nan Parson Rossiter. 1997
A Labrador named Rugby and his human family prepare a puppy for training as a guide dog for the blind.…
Rosie is no ordinary pup. She wins over Rugby quickly, and the two dogs become pals. Then it is time for Rosie to leave the family and go to a special training school. For grades 1-4Over every hurdle: Book Three Of The Guiding Emily Series (Guiding Emily #03)
By Barbara Hinske. 2022
"Emily's new relationship with Grant is jeopardized by adolescent animosity between Zoe and Diedre. Will Gina swoop in to calm…
troubled waters? Meanwhile, Emily and Garth travel to Denver to assist their company's cyber security team-only to find that their unsolicited aid is most unwelcome. There's no time, however, to worry about workplace drama. Emily and Zoe are busy with Gina's wedding, followed by the surprise birthday party they're throwing for Stephanie. Is Stephanie the only one who will be surprised at this party?" -- Provided by publisherHow the blind detective and his seeing eye dog saved the Narwhals
By Shawn Adair Johnston. 2021
It's 2079 and narwhals are being poached to extinction for their ivory tusks. Peter Straw, a blind detective, tries to…
stop the poachers with the assistance of three genetically and intellectually enhanced animals: his guide dog, a chimpanzee, and a porpoise. Adult. UnratedGive me a sign
By Anna Sortino. 2023
Jenny Han meets CODA in this big-hearted YA debut about first love and Deaf pride at a summer camp. Lilah…
is stuck in the middle. At least, that’s what having a hearing loss seems like sometimes—when you don’t feel "deaf enough" to identify as Deaf or hearing enough to meet the world’s expectations. But this summer, Lilah is ready for a change. When Lilah becomes a counselor at a summer camp for the deaf and blind, her plan is to brush up on her ASL. Once there, she also finds a community. There are cute British lifeguards who break hearts but not rules, a YouTuber who’s just a bit desperate for clout, the campers Lilah’s responsible for (and overwhelmed by)—and then there’s Isaac, the dreamy Deaf counselor who volunteers to help Lilah with her signing. Romance was never on the agenda, and Lilah’s not positive Isaac likes her that way. But all signs seem to point to love. Unless she’s reading them wrong? One thing’s for sure: Lilah wanted change, and things here . . . they're certainly different than what she’s used toA Bucket of Stars
By Suri Rosen. 2023
A story of two kids trying to save the world they know and heal the families they have.It’s the summer…
of 2003 and thirteen-year-old astronomer Noah Cooper has just moved to Queensport, a small town with a vast amateur sky full of stars. There he meets Tara Dhillon, a lonely girl and aspiring filmmaker. When the two team up to produce an astronomy movie and enter a film contest, they discover a secret plan to turn their rural hamlet into a huge subdivision.Noah and Tara must use their unique skills to identify the culprits who plan on paving over the historic county — and try to save the infinite beauty of the stars. As if that’s not enough to have at stake, Noah needs to win the prize money to buy a new telescope for his unemployed father — an ex-astronomer who’s almost given up on the stars, as well as life on earth.Touching on themes of activism, environmental anxiety and mental health, A Bucket of Stars will have readers cheering for Noah, a boy whose head is in the stars, and Tara, a girl who lives in a world of digital images — and their special bond that just might mend the world around them.A girl's best friend
By Harriet Savitz. 1995
Laurie Moss, twelve, is worried that her parents will put their old beagle, Jessie, to sleep because of her arthritis.…
The vet has some new medicine, but it is expensive so Laurie takes a part-time job. Her boss is blind, like Laurie, and very particular about how things are done at his bike shop. Meanwhile, a new teacher thinks Laurie can't do anything by herself, and a bully taunts her in the halls. For grades 3-6The window
By Jeanette Ingold. 1996
Fifteen-year-old Mandy is blinded in a car accident that took the life of her mother. Sent to live with unknown…
great-uncles and aunts, Mandy elects to attend the local high school. With help of voices from the past, Mandy learns to understand and accept her new family. For grades 6-9Seeing lessons: the story of Abigail Carter and America's first school for the blind
By Spring Hermann, Ib Ohlsson. 1998
1832. Ten-year-old Abigail and her six-year-old sister, Sophia, are among the first students chosen to attend a new school in…
Boston that is solely for children who are blind. The girls are homesick but thrilled at the chance to learn to read, do math and handicrafts, and play the pianoforte. For grades 4-7