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By Peter Lerangis, Harry Mazer. 2012
When Ben delays college to enlist in the army reserve, his family, girlfriend, and best friend are shocked. After deployment…
to Iraq Ben returns home with a traumatic brain injury and finds nothing is the same. Some violence and some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2012By Laurie Alice Eakes. 2010
Post-Civil War. Pregnant widow Dr. Audrey Vanderleyden travels to rural Virginia to operate the practice she and her late husband…
had purchased together. When the seller refuses to honor the contract because he disapproves of female physicians, Audrey asks Nathan Maxwell--a local doctor who recently lost his sight--for help. 2010By Jennifer Weiner. 2012
Screenwriter Ruth Saunders, disfigured from a childhood accident, makes it big with a television series based on her life with…
her grandmother. While dealing with actors, rewrites, and so-so reviews, Ruth falls for her producer Dave, who uses a wheelchair. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2012By Georgina Harding. 2012
1950s Romania. A young deaf-mute man arrives at a city hospital weak and ill. Though he cannot communicate with the…
staff, one nurse, Safta, recognizes him as Augustin, the son of her family's cook. Memories of the recent war haunt them all as Augustin fights to recover. 2012By Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stentz. 2012
High school freshman Colin Fischer has Asperger's syndrome and uses flash cards to identify facial expressions and social cues. But…
when a gun goes off during lunch and school bully Wayne is accused, Colin tries to prove Wayne's innocence--even though Wayne torments Colin. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2012By John Barnes. 2012
2129. Susan, Derlock, and seven fellow students stow away on a Mars-bound ship, hoping the media attention will lead to…
fame and fortune. But the others are unaware that Derlock is a sociopath with bigger plans. Descriptions of sex and some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2012By Farrah Rochon. 2010
Entertainment reporter/blogger Paige Turner criticizes football player and restaurateur Torrian Smallwood's memoir. To resolve their feud, the two hold a…
televised cook-off--where their mutual attraction overcomes their animosity. But Torrian questions Paige's trustworthiness when someone leaks his retinitis pigmentosa diagnosis to the media. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2010By Lauren Roedy Vaughn. 2013
Danielle Levine, a high school senior with OCD, struggles to fit in at her alternative school and uses writing as…
the easiest way to communicate. But things change after Danielle is sent to social skills class and falls for a boy. For senior high and older readers. 2013By Diane Chamberlain. 2013
North Carolina, 1960. Epileptic fifteen-year-old Ivy struggles to care for her grandmother, mentally slow sister, and nephew on the farm…
they sharecrop. Newlywed Jane, who wants to meet social expectations and be a social worker, tries to help Ivy's family. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2013By Elizabeth Wein. 2013
After a daring flight maneuver, young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbr�uck, a notorious…
women's concentration camp. Rose's fellow prisoners help her to keep hope alive. Companion to Code Name Verity (DB 75966). Violence and strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2013By Gennifer Choldenko. 2013
When Moose Flanagan's dad is promoted to associate warden, others on Alcatraz Island stop at nothing to get him out…
of the position. After a mysterious fire burns down the Flanagans' apartment, Moose and his friends investigate. Sequel to Al Capone Shines My Shoes (DB 69960). For grades 6-9. 2013By Danielle Steel. 2013
Seventeen-year-old champion skier Lily Thomas is paralyzed in an accident despite the best efforts of neurosurgeon Jessie Matthews, who endures…
her own tragedy that same day. As Lily adjusts to a new way of life, her father Bill establishes a rehabilitation center for young people with spinal-cord injuries. 2013By Alice McDermott. 2013
Marie Commeford, a woman with compromised eyesight, reflects back on her life in Brooklyn. The personalities of her fellow first-…
and second-generation Irish American neighbors color her world before and after World War II. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2013By Berna King. 2013
Veterinarian Scott Benson asks blind rehabilitation teacher Shannon Martin to help his daughter Rachel, who lost her sight in a…
car accident that killed her mother. Scott and Shannon begin a romance and deal with serious family issues with the help of God. 2013By Susan Nussbaum. 2013
At the Illinois Learning and Life Skills Center, an institution for youths with physical and mental disabilities, outspoken Yessenía, dapper…
Teddy, and timid Mia form alliances as they endure--then resist--mistreatment. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2013By Karen Harrington. 2013
Twelve-year-old Sarah Nelson writes letters to her hero Atticus Finch, from To Kill a Mockingbird (DB 36414), to help herself…
understand her infamous mentally ill mother. Sarah comes to terms with her family's odd history and her fears, and finds her first love--and herself--in the process. For grades 6-9. 2013By Shirley Reva Vernick. 2013
Vermont. After reluctantly agreeing to spend the summer helping out his older, autistic cousin named Remember, Johnny is surprised to…
find that they become good friends. Soon an unlikely romance and an adventure with two cunning ferrets add to the mix. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2013By Merrie Haskell. 2013
While visiting a neighboring noble to assist him with his tax records, reluctant Princess Matilda is kidnapped by her cousin…
in a plot to steal her lands. Matilda's crush Parz and handmaiden Judith rescue her, and the trio go on the run--and learn dragon slaying. Schneider Family Award. For grades 5-8. 2013By Kimberly Elkins. 2014
1837. Seven-year-old Laura Bridgman, who is blind and deaf, leaves her family in Vermont to live at the Perkins Institution…
for the Blind. Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe is eager to try to teach Laura to write and read through tactile means--something that has never been attempted before. 2014By R. J. Palacio. 2014
Auggie's teacher Mr. Browne provides a book filled with principles to live by for each day of the year. Companion…
to Wonder (DB 74228). For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2014