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By William H Hooks. 1988
In a small North Carolina town in 1908, Annie Earle, fifteen, is troubled with an impaired foot, a meddling aunt,…
and a sick mother and brother. But through her relationships with a young black woman and a new man in town with whom she falls in love, Annie gains new insight into herself and the possibilities for her life. For junior and senior high readersBy Gene Stratton-Porter. 1986
Classic romance first published in 1904. A nameless waif has the job of guarding the boundaries of a large tract…
of the dense Indiana swamps, an area he has learned to know through keen observation, and he gives his heart to one of its inhabitants, a girl he calls the Swamp AngelBy Heather Smith. 2019
"A positive and realistic representation of both a wheelchair user and an elderly, interracial gay male couple." — Kirkus Reviews…
"A beautiful and uplifting book." — School Library Journal Lou spends every Saturday with Grandad and Pops. They walk to the library hand in hand, like a chain of paper dolls. Grandad reads books about science and design, Pops listens to rock and roll, and Lou bounces from lap to lap. But everything changes one Saturday. Pops has a fall. That night there is terrible news: Pops will need to use a wheelchair, not just for now, but for always. Unable to cope with his new circumstances, he becomes withdrawn and shuts himself in his room. Hearing Grandad trying to cheer up Pops inspires Lou to make a plan. Using skills learned from Grandad, and with a little help from their neighbors, Lou comes up with a plan for PopsBy Virginia Euwer Wolff. 1988
A strong, compassionate story about a student with minimal brain dysfunction. While all sixteen year olds have problems, Nick Swansen…
has some that are unique. They involve his identity outside Room 19, the special education classroom, and his coming to terms with the accidental death of his sister, Dianne, nine years earlier. For grades 6-9 and older readers. International Reading Association AwardBy Daniel Keyes. 1988
The narrator, a mentally impaired man of thirty-two, receives an operation to increase his learning ability. But although his mentality…
develops at high speed, there is always the possibility of regression. For junior and senior high and older readersBy Pieter Van Raven. 1989
Novelist Paul Bernard has just turned down the Nobel Prize for Literature. Intrigued by this and by Bernard's self-imposed isolation,…
high school journalist Jerry Huffaker, fourteen, is dispatched by his teacher to interview Bernard for the school newspaper. Jerry gets the interview, befriends the writer, and ultimately learns the great man's secret about the accident that cost him his legs. For grades 6-9 and older readersBy Deborah Kent. 1989
It is Tracy's first year at Millbrook High School, and she is having a hard time adjusting. Her friends and…
teachers think that she is acting weird. But Tracy cannot bring herself to share her secret with them. She becomes more and more withdrawn as she spends all of her time training her dog, Sasha, for the dog show. But she cannot keep her secret forever: she is losing her sight because of retinitis pigmentosa. For grades 5-8By Theodore Taylor. 1991
It has been over a year since Helen trained Tuck, her blind Labrador, to use his own guide dog. The…
Ogden's are now adopting a Korean orphan. To their surprise, when Chok-Do arrives he is not a baby but a six-year-old, and profoundly deaf. Helen, her parents, Tuck, and Chok-Do face new challenges with courage and determination. Sequel to "The Trouble with Tuck." For grades 4-7By John Marsden. 1989
Marina, a fourteen-year-old living at a boarding school in Australia, has been facially disfigured under circumstances that are gradually revealed.…
Since that terrible event, she has not spoken. She is withdrawn and bitter towards the world. An English teacher makes diary writing a class assignment; the diary, this novel, becomes Marina's "voice." For junior and senior high and older readers. 1988 Book of the Year Award in AustraliaBy Eileen Lottman. 1991
Sandy describes life with her hated Siamese twin Sheila (She for short.) Growing up Jewish in Iowa during the depression…
and the war, the girls have fairly normal lives, aside from their inability to escape each other's unwanted company and friends. In adulthood, their shared existence becomes more complex and hateful, as they disagree about college, marriage, sex, and motherhood. Strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, and violenceBy Tricia Levenseller. 2022
In Master of Iron, the conclusion to Tricia Levenseller’s exciting Bladesmith YA fantasy duology, a magically gifted blacksmith with social…
anxiety must race against the clock to save her beloved sister and stop a devastating war.Eighteen-year-old Ziva may have defeated a deadly warlord, but the price was almost too much. Ziva is forced into a breakneck race to a nearby city with the handsome mercenary, Kellyn, and the young scholar, Petrik, to find a powerful magical healer who can save her sister’s life.When the events that follow lead to Ziva and Kellyn’s capture by an ambitious prince, Ziva is forced into the very situation she’s been dreading: magicking dangerous weapons meant for world domination.The forge has always been Ziva’s safe space, a place to avoid society and the anxiety it causes her, but now it is her prison, and she’s not sure just how much of herself she’ll have to sacrifice to save Kellyn and take center stage in the very war she’s been trying to stop.By Lois Ruby. 1993
Miriam Pelham's religious beliefs do not allow her to wear makeup or jewelry or to allow medical intervention during illnesses.…
Adam Bergen, a Jewish classmate, is not keen on religion. When their English teacher assigns them to work together on a poetry assignment and Miriam has a fainting spell in class that lands her in the hospital, both Adam and Miriam begin to question their beliefs. For high school and older readersBy Susan Richards Shreve. 1991
Eliza Westfield, always popular and a good student, reaches thirteen and, in her own words, "turns unpretty and unsmart and…
mean." She refuses to try out for the lead in Annie, the school musical, despite her talent and her dream of starring in the annual "big event." Her best friend Lucy, who is deaf, is eager for a part and Eliza agrees to coach her. Lucy's courage and determination help Eliza to accept herself. For grades 4-7 and older readersBy Patrick Quinn. 1991
Matthew Pinkowski, thirteen, has always loved summers, and the first in his new hometown proves to be a great one.…
Matthew rescues a neighborhood boy from a runaway car and is declared a hero! He and Tommy, who, like Matthew, has a learning disability, become fast friends, along with Tommy's sister, Sandy, and Laura, who is deaf and is visiting relatives for the summer. Together they enjoy a host of adventures. For grades 4-7By Ruth Yaffe Radin. 1990
Ten-year-old Jon, who is blind, and his mother return to live with his grandmother at Kellam's Landing, where Jon attends…
public school for the first time. His new friend Matt tells him about Carver, an embittered old man who carves exquisite wooden birds. Jon's father had loved carving birds before his fatal accident, and it becomes important to Jon to also learn the craft, although he knows that his mother will not approve. For grades 4- 7By Dennis Covington. 1991
They call him Lizard because of his facial deformities and his solitary nature. When Miss Cooley, Lizard's guardian, leaves to…
get married, she ships him to a state school for mentally retarded boys in Louisiana. There he meets a traveling actor named Callahan who pretends to be his father. And Lizard is spirited away from the school to play Caliban in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Strong language. For junior and senior high and older readersBy Gary Paulsen. 1991
Figuring she'll never get adopted because of her caramel-colored skin; tight, curly hair; and disabled leg, Rocky is surprised to…
be chosen by Emma and Fred, a kind, alcoholic couple from Bolton, Kansas. In Bolton Rocky finds her devoted dog, Python, who leads her to Mick, the rumpled artist hired to design a monument to the town's war dead--and the person who changes Rocky's view of life, art, and the world. For grades 6-9 and older readersBy Don Coldsmith. 1992
Possum, the infant son of Otter Woman and Walking Horse, is left deaf by a disease. He never learns to…
speak, and his people give him the name Speaks Not. Despite this disability, he teaches himself to be a successful hunter, earning the name Hunts-Alone. Marriage and children bring happiness for a time, but fate has determined he will end his life in loneliness and isolation. Sequel to "The traveler" (DC12590). 1992. (The Spanish bit saga ; book 3)By Theodore Taylor. 1993
In this companion to The Cay (DB 34450/BR 08750), we learn what has happened to Phillip since his rescue from…
a Caribbean island, where as a twelve-year-old white boy blinded by a blow on the head he had been stranded with Timothy, an elderly, black deckhand. We also learn of Timothy's life and of his adventures at sea since his days as a young cabin boy. For grades 5-8 and older readersBy Christine Webb. 2022
High schooler Natalie Cordova has just been diagnosed with Bipolar disorder. Her mom insists she keep it secret.Putting up a…
front and hiding her mental illness from her classmates is going to be the hardest thing high schooler Natalie Cordova has ever done. It&’s her senior year, and she&’s just been selected to present her artwork at a prestigious show. With the stress of performing on her shoulders, it doesn&’t help when Natalie notices a boy who makes her heart leap. And then there&’s fellow student Ella, who confronts Natalie about her summer car &“accident&” and pressures her into caring for the world&’s ugliest dog. Now Natalie finds herself juggling all kinds of feels and responsibilities. Surely her newly prescribed medication is to blame for the funk she finds herself in. But as Natalie&’s plan to self-treat unravels, so does the perfect façade she&’s been painting for everyone else. Written from experience, this heartfelt and candid contemporary YA novel explores the stigma surrounding mental illness and offers an uplifting narrative of resilience.