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621) Impossible music
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
HL 820L
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a class for the newly deaf, former musician Simon meets G and his quest to create an entirely new form of music helps him better understand her, himself, and his relationship to the hearing world.
Simon is devastated when a stroke destroys his hearing. Music is his life, and he resists attempts to help him adjust to his new state: refusing to be counseled, refusing to learn sign-language, refusing to have anything to do with deaf culture. Then...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
AD 460L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Sam is fascinated by her new neighbors and their ability to talk with their hands, and when she meets Mai, she starts to learn Filipino sign language so they can communicate. Includes dictionary of Philippine signs.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ever since her dad died, 11-year-old Jerry Blum and her mom have bounced around dead-end towns, staying in a series of rundown motels where her mother picks up housekeeping work and Jerry can get around in her wheelchair. But the Slumbering Giant motel is different. Lights blink on and off in the surrounding trees, a mysterious radio station plays only at midnight, and people disappear into the woods, never to been seen again. Not to mention that...
624) Push girl: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
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, paralized 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.
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 zippered plastic bag : clear with blue handles ; 34 x 33 x 14 cm + 7 books ; 1 Snowy Day multicultural storytelling kit (12 fabric pieces with "hook" tape, 1 Snowy Day multicultural storytelling kit activity sheet) ; 1 videodisc ; 1 Ezra Jack Keats activity sheet.
Language
English
Appears on list
626) Full-court press
Author
Series
Hoops (Donne) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
149 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Elle begins to volunteer two days a week working with children with special needs, she has trouble juggling her new passion, basketball obligations, and schoolwork.
627) Mascot
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Noah Savino has been stuck in a wheelchair for months. He hates the way people treat him like he's helpless now. He's sick of going to physical therapy, where he isn't making any progress. He's tired of not having control over his own body. And he misses playing baseball--but not as much as he misses his dad, who died in the car accident that paralyzed Noah. Noah is scared he'll never feel like his old self again. He doesn't want people to think...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Elsewhere edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A young, bedridden girl spends her day watching a mobile of spinning horses and uses her imagination to give the seven horses life in a fantasy world.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
ix, 260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A moving memoir from the mother of a child with Treacher Collins Syndrome, with a foreword by R.J. Palacio, author of Wonder"--
Normal. Who is to say what this word means? For Magda Newman, it was a goal. She wanted her son Nathaniel to be able to play on the playground, swim at the beach, enjoy the moments his friends took for granted. But Nathaniel's severe Treacher Collins syndrome-- a craniofacial condition-- meant that other concerns came first....
630) Thukpa for all
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tsering can't wait to taste his grandmother's delicious noodle soup. He invites a string of friends and neighbours home. But as preparations get underway, there is a power cut and the house is plunged into darkness. Will Abi be able to put together the much-anticipated thukpa? Told from a blind child's perspective, this tale by Praba Ram and Sheela Preuitt is accompanied by Shilpa Ranade's stunning illustrations."--
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Alvie Fitz doesn't fit in, and she doesn't care. She's spent years swallowing meds and bad advice from doctors and social workers. Adjust, adapt. Pretend to be normal. It sounds so easy. If she can make it to her eighteenth birthday without any major mishaps, she'll be legally emancipated. Free. But if she fails, she'll become a ward of the state and be sent back to the group home"--Jacket.
Alvie Fitz has spent years swallowing meds and bad advice...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As the country sought healing and peace after the Civil War, Wisconsin citizens took up Pres. Abraham Lincoln's challenge ""to care for him who shall have borne the battle."" Their efforts paved the way for the establishment in Milwaukee of one of the original three branches of the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. In May 1867, the first 60 veterans, including a musician from the War of 1812, moved to a single building on 400 rolling...
634) Set me free
Author
Series
Show me a sign volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but intrigued, and bored with domestic life, Mary agrees-- only...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A radical new history that rediscovers the remarkable freak performers whose talents and charisma helped define an era.
636) Turning
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Before the "accident" Genie was an aspiring ballerina, a star pupil at her exclusive New York dance school, now she is a bitter teenager, permanently confined to a wheelchair, shutting herself off from her friends, her beloved teacher, and even her mother; but at physical therapy she meets Kyle, a gymnast whose traumatic brain injury has landed him in therapy--and through their growing friendship Genie realizes that she has to confront the things...
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