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61) Pickles
Author
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
1988, ©1986
Physical Desc
viii, 53 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When Sarah is permanently disabled in an accident, she continues to ride the once-abused pony she nursed back to health and even enters a race.
62) Armored
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After losing part of his left leg, former bodyguard Joshua Duffy takes a job as a mall cop to support his family, but runs into an old friend who has a much more intriguing job offer, to join a mission into the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico to broker peace between the drug cartels in the region.
Joshua Duffy was a Close Protection Agent-- a professional bodyguard, and one of the world's elite operatives... until his last mission in Lebanon. He...
63) Of sound mind
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
215 p. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tired of interpreting for his deaf family and resentful of their reliance on him, high school senior Theo finds support and understanding from Ivy, a new student who also has a deaf parent
Author
Language
English
Description
When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire Moors, she finds it full of secrets. The mansion has nearly one hundred rooms, and her uncle keeps himself locked up. And at night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors.
The gardens surrounding the large property are Mary's only escape. Then, Mary discovers a secret garden, surrounded by walls and locked with a missing key. With the help of...
Author
Series
Moses volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Moses and his schoolmates, all deaf, attend a concert where the orchestra's percussionist is also deaf. Includes illustrations in sign language and a page showing the manual alphabet.
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Mean girl Nikki Baylor, accused of a cyberbullying incident that nearly resulted in a classmate's suicide, is expelled from school, abandoned by her friends, and distrusted by her parents but she gets a second chance after meeting Pax, a spirited wheelchair rugby player.
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Provocative and profound in its exploration of what makes us human, The Last Language is the story of Angela's work using an experimental therapy with her nonverbal patient, Sam, and their relationship that ensues"--
68) Blind
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After a horrific accident leaves her blind, fifteen-year-old Emma, one of seven children, eagerly starts high school as a sophomore, and finds that nearly everything has changed--sometimes for the better.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Someone's put a blade in the back of the Amazing Tattooed Woman, and Willowjean "Will" Parker's former knife-throwing mentor has been stitched up for the crime. To uncover the truth, Will and her boss, world-famous detective Lillian Pentecost , travel south to the circus where they find a snakepit of old grudges, small-town crime, and secrets worth killing for. New York, 1946: The last time Will Parker let a case get personal, she walked away with...
Author
Publisher
Kendall Green Publications
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Desc
iii, 100 p. : ill. ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Entering a new school, Donald struggles with his learning disability and makes friends with a deaf boy who teaches him sign language and joins Donald in a search for a newspaper thief.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
For sixteen-year-old Lana life is often difficult, with a flirtatious foster father, an ice queen foster mother, a houseful of special needs children to care for, and bullies harrassing her, until the day she ventures into an antique shop and buys a drawing set that may change her life
74) Pigs might fly
Author
Pub. Date
1982
Language
English
Description
A runt piglet born with deformed front feet is coached in swimming by a duck and an otter and, when the pig farm is flooded, becomes a hero
Author
Series
Million dollar series (Dan Gutman) volume 5
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
169 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Assisted by his neighbor, Birdie, blind thirteen-year-old Ed "Bogie" Bogard will win one million dollars if he can sink a ten-foot putt in Hawaii's fifth annual Angus Killick Memorial Tournament
76) My buddy
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm
Language
English
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lewis Madigan is young, gay, out of work, and getting antsy when he's roped into providing end-of-life care for his insufferable homophobic neighbor, Chester Wheeler. Lewis doesn't need the aggravation, just the money. The only requirements: run errands, be on call, and put up with a miserable old churl no one else in Buffalo can bear. After exchanging barbs, bickering, baiting, and pushing buttons, Chester hits Lewis with the big ask. Lewis can't...
78) Killers of man
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2010], c1997
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In a chaotic blast of gunfire, the James Gang fled a posse's attack -- and the infamous Jesse threw his cousin Jeston Nash a hoard of stolen cash. But dodging the law with $30,000 in a dusty carpetbag is a risky proposition. Hoping to lie low in the mountains of the Northwest, Jeston and his partner, Quiet Jack, find themselves on a journey into the dark heart of human nature -- and deadly animal instinct...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
viii, 227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Kara, a high school junior, is popular with a great group of friends, an amazing boyfriend, and expectations of being Homecoming Queen until she leaves a party angry and wakes up in a hospital bed, paralyzed from the waist down, but as she is forced to adjust to her new physical reality, she also learns that her friends are not who they seemed to be.
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