Zoe mostly has it good. Her parents are nice, her brother isn?t half bad, and her dog Ella is amazing. But Zoe thinks her life is boring ? nothing ever changes. She?s stuck in her wheelchair and her parents never let her do anything fun...
People with disabilities
- Author:Minaki, ChristinaSummary:
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Work is a central aspect of human life in every culture and every society. In certain societies work may be a means by which individuals define themselves and/or maintain their quality of life. However, as a whole, work is the essential...
- Author:HARRIS, RosieSummary:
Crippled by polio, young Winnie Molly has little to look forward to in life. Her father, Trevor, adores her but she is neglected by her feckless mother, Grace. When war comes, Trevor is called up. He fears for Winnie, yet Sandy, who...
- Author:Hope RydenSummary:
Alison spends her thirteenth summer on a ranch in Wyoming where she learns to ride a horse and where Kelly, who is blind, helps her overcome an old fear
- Author:Richmond, Sandra, Brooks, MarthaSummary:
Sally and Brian are in love. But at the end of a wonderful ski weekend together, a car accident leaves Sally fully paralyzed for life. This powerful, honest book tells of Sally's struggle immediately following the accident as she goes...
- Author:Cockrell, AmandaSummary:
The Boston Globe named What We Keep Is Not Always What Will Stay a 2011 Best Book for Children The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books named What We Keep Is Not Always What Will Stay to their 2011 Blue Ribbons list Angie never...
- Author:Taub, Marc B.Summary:
Visual Diagnosis and Care of the Patient with Special Needs provides a thorough review of the eye and vision care needs of patients with special needs. This book gives you a better understanding of the most frequently encountered...
- Author:Donovan, Rich, Wright, BradenSummary:
If you discovered a new market comprising 53% of the world's population, would you act to invest in it? There are 1.3 billion people around the world who identify as having a disability. When you include friends and family, the...
- Author:Grey, AndrewSummary:
Un libro de la saga Probando el Amor Si Peter Christopoulos ha aprendido algo de sus tres años en silla de ruedas, es que a la gente le cuesta ver más allá del armazón. Cuando le propone a Russ Baker salir con él tras darle un...
- Author:Grey, AndrewSummary:
Se Peter Christopoulos è riuscito a imparare qualcosa nei tre anni passati su di una sedia a rotelle, è che le persone difficilmente riescono a vedere oltre quell’oggetto. Quando chiede di uscire a Russ Baker, dopo avergli fatto un...
- Author:Burnett, Frances HodgsonSummary:
Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
- Author:Burnett, Frances HodgsonSummary:
When Mary is sent to live in a gloomy house in England, she feels very lonely. But then she finds the key to a lost garden, and makes a new friend, Dickon. Can the magical garden help her cousin Colin too?
- Author:RolliSummary:
A flash fiction novel, The Sea-Wave details the aftermath of the kidnapping by an elderly and emotionally damaged man of a severely disabled, wheelchair-bound, unusually bright, depressive 12-year-old girl incapable of speech....
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- Author:Goode, BarbSummary:
- Author:Lawrence, IainSummary:
When her eight-year-old neighbor is stricken with polio in 1955, eleven-year-old Laurie discovers that there is power in her imagination as she weaves a story during her visits with him and other patients confined to iron lung machines...
- Author:KELLOGG, MarjorieSummary:
Discharged from hospital, three physically disabled young people decide to live together, and find in forced interdependence the unexpected possibilities of love.
- Author:Bloor, EdwardSummary:
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
- Author:Alexander, Sally HobartSummary:
The author recounts how she gradually lost her sight from retinal hemorrhages, and describes her experiences in a training program for blind adults.
- Author:Mikaelsen, BenSummary:
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.