From Louis Sachar, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Newbery Medal for HOLES, comes the young adult novel THE CARDTURNER, an exploration of the human condition.
 
How are we supposed to be partners? He can’t see the cards and I don’t know the rules!
 
The summer after junior year of high school looks bleak for Alton Richards. His girlfriend has dumped him to hook up with his best friend. He...

Adjusting to middle school becomes easier for twelve-year-old Maggie when she finds that her biology teacher, who is blind, can learn a few things from her about working with his guide dog.

"Blind sixteen-year-old Parker Grant navigates friendships and romantic relationships, including a run-in with a boy who previously broke her heart, while coping with her father's recent death"--

Kalyn, living under a pseudonym, and Gus, who has cerebral palsy, get caught in an uproar in Samsboro, Kentucky as the truth about the brutal murder of Gus's father by Kalyn's comes to light.

The car crash that killed Heaven and Logan left Annie Casteel Stonewall orphaned and crippled. Annie pines for her lost family, especially for Luke, her half brother.

Thirteen-year-old Rocky, self-conscious about the braces on her leg, has her life changed by the remarkable artist who comes to her small Kansas town to design a war memorial.

Emma, a deaf girl, and her best friend Izzie are going to the apple orchard today in order to pick apples for cooking, but their basket of apples ends up in the mud. Includes an ASL fingerspelling chart, glossary, and content-related questions.

Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.

The Venetian inspector has been called on to investigate many things, from shocking to petty crimes. But this time, Brunetti finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a case at all. Fifteen years ago, a teenage girl fell into a canal late at night. A drunk man claimed he saw her thrown into the canal by another man, but the following day he couldn't remember a thing. Now, a wealthy and aristocratic patroness - the girl's grandmother - asks Brunetti...