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4) From Anna
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Description
When the family moves from Germany to Canada in the 1930's, a nine-year-old girl discovers the reason for her awkwardness and apparent inability to do anything right.
5) Hannah
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Hannah, a blind girl living in the late nineteenth century, doesn't go to school, until a new teacher tells her about the Braille method of reading for the blind.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him.
11) The monument
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Rocky, self-conscious about the braces on her leg, has her life changed by the remarkable artist who comes to her small Kansas town to design a war memorial.
12) Stranded
Author
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Koby, who has lost a foot in an accident, sees a chance to prove her self-reliance to her parents when she tries to rescue two stranded pilot whales near her home in the Florida Keys.
13) Carver
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Blind and fatherless since the age of two, ten-year-old Jon struggles to fit in at his new public school and hide his growing interest in wood carving from his mom who still mourns the death of Jon's father who hoped to become a professional wood carver.
14) Jodie's journey
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Twelve-year-old Jodie, disabled by juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and no longer able to ride her beloved horse Monarch, faces a crisis when the two of them are alone at her remote Australia home and a devastating fire approaches.
15) Tuck triumphant
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Helen, her blind dog Friar Tuck, and her family face some dramatic challenges when they discover that the Korean boy they have adopted is deaf. Sequel to "The Trouble with Tuck."
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
While trying to deal with the possibility that her parents will separate, ten-year-old Zanna becomes involved in working with a spirited sheep dog that belongs to the stroke patient her mother is helping to rehabilitate.
18) Petey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
In 1922 Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized; sixty years later, still in the institution, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy of life.
19) Bird boy
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Chang, a mute Chinese boy whose father uses cormorants to fish, is pleased when he is finally old enough to help with the Big Catch and the raising of a new bird.
20) My buddy
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Description
A young boy with muscular dystrophy tells how he is teamed up with a dog trained to do things for him that he can't do for himself.
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