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Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 118
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Kristy's family has a new Labrador retriever puppy who is being trained to be a guide dog for the blind.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Legally-blind college reporter Mike Mavic hopes to get a story about a body found in Steepleton, believed to be that of long-missing teen Christopher Creed, but finds something odd about the town, including Justin Creed's obsessive drive to learn what really happened to his older brother.
83) I will dance
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Eva's cerebral palsy makes it difficult for her to do many things, but she longs to dance and, finally, her dream is realized. Includes author's note and information about Young Dance Company.
84) Crazy beautiful
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In this contemporary retelling of "Beauty and the Beast," a teenaged boy whose hands were amputated in an explosion and a gorgeous girl whose mother has recently died form an instant connection when they meet on their first day as new students.
85) Rocky Road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Fashion-loving twelve-year-old Tess moves with her deaf younger brother and impulsive single mother to Schenectady, New York, where they open an ice-cream shop and lead a campaign for urban renewal.
87) Susan laughs
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Rhyming couplets describe a wide range of common emotions and activities experienced by a little girl who uses a wheelchair.
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, twelve-year-old Jonathan Palmer must find a way to keep himself, his partially paralyzed younger sister, and their dog alive until help arrives.
90) The storm runner
Author
Series
Storm runner volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Description
To prevent the Mayan gods from battling each other and destroying the world, thirteen-year-old Zane must unravel an ancient prophecy, stop an evil god, and discover how the physical disability that makes him reliant on a cane also connects him to his father and his ancestry.
91) Cowgirl Megan
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When her friends doubt her dream of becoming a diplomat, Megan visits the magic attic where she helps a blind girl who wants to be a trick rider.
92) Family reminders
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
In 1890s Cripple Creek, Colorado, when young Mary McHugh's father loses his leg in a mining accident, she tries to help, both by earning money and by encouraging her father to go back to carving wooden figurines and playing piano
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Twelve-year-old Sadie promises that she will always be Wilma's best friend when their families leaves drought-stricken Missouri in 1933, but once in Texas, Sadie learns that she must try to make a new home--and new friends, too.
94) Skateboard sonar
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Although blind, Matty is an excellent skateboarder, but when the former champion mocks him during the skating competition, Matty shows that seeing is not everything.
95) Ring of fear
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Jack Mallahan doesn't let his disability get him down. When he uncovers a mysterious and valuable ring on the beach with his metal detector he finds himself in harm's way.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The Giver: Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. -- Gathering blue: Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians....
99) Petey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In 1922, Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized; sixty years later, after he is moved to a nursing home, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy of life
100) Show me a sign
Author
Series
Show me a sign volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Appears on list
Description
It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...