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Finding Grace
By Alyssa Brugman. 2004
Australia. Quirky eighteen-year-old Rachel is hired as a live-in caretaker for Grace, recently brain-injured. Rachel starts university, makes friends, and…
learns never to leave Grace alone. While trying to piece together Grace's former life, Rachel gains insights about herself too. Some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2001A Mulligan for Bobby Jobe: A Novel
By Robert Cullen. 2002
Bobby Jobe leads the PGA Championship until an attractive woman distracts him. He loses the tournament, fires his caddy, and…
is struck by lightning on the practice tees and permanently blinded. Therapist Angela Murphy reunites caddy and golfer and unexpectedly urges Jobe to return to the game. Strong language. 2001Cruise control
By Terry Trueman. 2004
Basketball star Paul's senior year seems perfect but his misdirected anger could ruin everything. He's upset with his father for…
abandoning the family and struggles to accept brother Shawn's severe cerebral palsy. Companion to Stuck in Neutral (BR 14082). Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 2004Bird
By Angela Johnson. 2004
Bird, a thirteen-year-old African American girl, runs away to Alabama to convince her stepfather, Cecil, to return home. Two boys…
linked by a heart transplant befriend her: Jay, whose dead brother was the organ donor, and Ethan, Cecil's nephew, who received a new heart. For grades 5-8. 2004On the run
By Michael Coleman. 2004
Luke's latest arrest results in a community service sentence to partner with Jodi, a blind teenager, to run in the…
London marathon. Under Jodi's influence during training, Luke develops positive traits and prefers running as a sport instead of running as an escape from the police. For grades 6-9. 2003Cursebreakers trilogy: Books 1-3 (Cursebreakers #01, 02, 03)
By Brigid Kemmerer. 2019
Trilogy, written between 2019 and 2021, featuring a curse, a romance, and a kingdom. Includes A Curse So Dark and…
Lonely, A Heart So Fierce and Broken, and A Vow So Bold and Deadly. Descriptions of sex, some strong language, and some violence. For senior high and older readers. 2021Sky: a novel in three sets and an encore
By Rod Townley. 2004
New York City, 1959. Fifteen-year-old Alec (Sky) Schuyler's passion is jazz. When his father objects to his playing the piano,…
Sky leaves home. He finds a mentor in a blind African American jazz musician and relies on support from friends. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 2004Of human bondage (Modern Library)
By W. Somerset Maugham. 1999
Semiautobiographical novel of obsessive love. Philip Carey, a sensitive, talented orphan with a club foot, comes to live with his…
vicar uncle. Philip studies art in Paris, returns to London to take up medicine, and begins a life-altering affair with Mildred, a waitress. 1999 introduction by Gore Vidal. 1915My sunshine (Coulter Family #5)
By Catherine Anderson. 2005
Isaiah Coulter's mother is matchmaking for him again, this time with a neighbor whose granddaughter works as a kennel keeper.…
They hope the couple's mutual love of animals will spark a romance. Sequel to Bright Eyes (DB 59542). Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2005Where I want to be
By Adele Griffin. 2005
Two teenage sisters, one alive and one deceased, reach out to each other, sharing their lives. Jane, from the grave,…
relates what happened when she stopped taking her medication for mental illness. Lily tells about finding happiness with her boyfriend, Caleb. For junior and senior high readers. 2005Lighthousekeeping
By Jeanette Winterson. 2004
The young orphan girl Silver learns the value of stories while apprenticed to Pew, a blind lighthouse keeper at Cape…
Wrath, Scotland. Among Pew's tales are the deeds of the double-natured minister Babel Dark, aka Lux, who inspired Robert Louis Stevenson. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some violence. 2004The Kreutzer Sonata: a novel
By Margriet De Moor. 2005
Marius van Vlooten, a music critic, reveals the depths of his passionate nature while recounting two love affairs. The first…
led to an attempted suicide that left him blind, and the second led to marriage with a lovely, talented violinist, whom he almost killed in a fit of jealousy. 2001Becoming Naomi León
By Pam Muñoz Ryan. 2004
For seven years Naomi and brother Owen lived happily with Gram in her trailer. Gram arranged Owen's surgeries for his…
physical disabilities and helped Naomi begin to speak again. When their mother reappears, Gram takes the children to Mexico to find their father and their heritage. For grades 4-7. Schneider Family Book Award. 2004Invisible
By Pete Hautman. 2005
Seventeen-year-old Dougie is a loner obsessed with building a bridge out of match sticks for his model railroad. His only…
friend and confidant is Andy, a popular football player, who lives next door. Gradually Dougie reveals their secret bond--the fires they set together. Some violence. For senior high readers. 2005Elana's ears, or, How I became the best big sister in the world
By Gloria Roth Lowell. 2000
Lacey the family dog is jealous of the new baby, Elana, that her human parents bring home. Discovering that Elana…
can't hear, Lacey becomes her ears and protects her from danger. Includes a clinical psychologist's advice for parents of deaf children. For grades 2-4. 2000Sparrow
By Sherri L Smith. 2006
After her beloved grandmother dies, high-school student Kendall Washington travels to New Orleans in search of her only living relative,…
her aunt Janet. Instead, she finds Janet's neighbors--sixteen-year-old Evie, who has muscular dystrophy and a beautiful singing voice, and Evie's overburdened mother, Clare Morreal. For senior high readers. 2006The impossible knife of memory
By Laurie Halse Anderson. 2014
After years living on the road, Hayley Kincain and her father move back to their hometown to try to lead…
a normal life. But the horrors her father saw in the war threaten to destroy them. Some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2014Talk talk: a novel
By T. Coraghessan Boyle. 2006
When thirty-three-year-old Dana Halter runs a stop sign, she's arrested for crimes committed by a man using her name. Dana's…
plight is complicated by her deafness. Then Dana and her boyfriend, Bridger, begin a cross-country manhunt for the identity thief. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2006Accidents of nature
By Harriet McBryde Johnson. 2006
North Carolina, 1970. Seventeen-year-old Jean, who has cerebral palsy, attends Camp Courage, where for the first time she meets other…
teens with disabilities. Her radical, new friend Sara directs an anti-telethon skit and changes Jean's perceptions of the normal world. Some descriptions of sex. For senior high readers. 2006Rules
By Cynthia Lord. 2006
Sometimes twelve-year-old Catherine resents her autistic brother, David, who breaks rules and gets all her parents' attention. She meets Jason,…
a teenage nonverbal paraplegic, at David's therapy center. As the two become friends, Catherine realizes that accepting differences matters more than any rules. For grades 5-8. Schneider Family Book Award. 2006