Zane Obispo has an impossible choice to make: save other godborns like him from the angry gods, or rescue his father Hurakan from his eternal prison. Zane Obispo's new life on a beautiful secluded tropical island, complete with his...
People with disabilities
- Auteur:Cervantes, JenniferSommaire:
- Auteur:Leavitt, HannaloraSommaire:
** IBBY 2023 Collection of Books for Young People with Disabilities** This nonfiction book for teens provides a history of disability, describes types of disabilities and examines the challenges faced by people living with disabilities...
- Auteur:Kaye, Elizabeth, Curran, AbbeySommaire:
Abbey Curran was born with cerebral palsy, but she resolved to never let it limit her. And after realizing her own dreams, she began helping other disabled girls do the same. Abbey tells a story of overcoming the odds and finding the...
- Auteur:KELLOGG, MarjorieSommaire:
Discharged from hospital, three physically disabled young people decide to live together, and find in forced interdependence the unexpected possibilities of love.
- Auteur:Bloor, EdwardSommaire:
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.
- Auteur:Alexander, Sally HobartSommaire:
The author recounts how she gradually lost her sight from retinal hemorrhages, and describes her experiences in a training program for blind adults.
- Auteur:Hubler, MarshaSommaire:
In the fourth book of the Keystone Stables series, perfect for girls who love horses and horse fiction, foster child Skye heads into a new adventure where her skills with horses and new riders is put to the test, when what should have...
- Auteur:LaSpina, NadinaSommaire:
This is Nadina LaSpina's story-from her early years in her native Sicily, where she contracts polio as a baby, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness, to her adolescence and...
- Auteur:Mikaelsen, BenSommaire:
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.
- Auteur:Sandor, StevenSommaire:
A car accident injures her parents and paralyzes Janine from the waist down. Her best friend and teammate urges Janine to look into sledge hockey. At first dismissing the sport as being just for the disabled, Janine agrees to play if...
- Auteur:Shea, GeraldSommaire:
Reveals how the author discovered at the age of thirty-four that he had been partially deaf since childhood and shares how he compensated through his amazing ability to translate the melody of vowels.
- Auteur:Kelly, LynneSommaire:
Twelve-year-old Iris and her grandmother, both deaf, fly from Texas to California and then take a cruise ship to Alaska-- armed with Iris's plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with other whales.
- Auteur:Thomas, CarolSommaire:
- Auteur:Lytton, Deborah A.Sommaire:
Stella was born to sing. Someday Broadway. But everything changes when a tragic accident renders her deaf; she cannot hear, much less sing. Trapped in a strange new world of total silence, she must face not only the loss of her friends...
- Auteur:Lord, CynthiaSommaire:
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic.
- Auteur:Elkeles, SimoneSommaire:
Available Now! Flux's First New York Times Bestseller! From the New York Times Bestselling Author of RULES OF ATTRACTION Comes the Sequel to LEAVING PARADISE Caleb Becker left Paradise eight months ago, taking with him the secret he...
- Auteur:Clayton, MelindaSommaire:
As recounted in Appalachian Justice, Jessie is an adult survivor of horrendous childhood abuse. At the age of thirteen, she was rescued by reclusive mountain woman Billy May Platte. Now forty-seven, Jessie is outwardly successful but...
- Auteur:Easton, EliSommaire:
Luke Schumaker designs computer games, working from his home. Every day he walks his dog in the woods nearby, never suspecting that someone who is completely smitten is watching. The watcher is Alex Shaw, and he too works from home,...
- Auteur:Anderson, CatherineSommaire:
The first time wealthy rancher Ryan Kendrick sees Bethany Coulter, he falls in love. She shares his passion for horses and can light up a room with her smile. She is perfect in every way -- except a riding accident years ago has...
- Auteur:Mikaelsen, BenSommaire:
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.