Webb, Amy
Summary: Five-year-old Charley gets teased for daydreaming and drawing more than his friends, but when he meets Emma, who is physically different, he needs help remembering that being different is okay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Social Emo Webb 2019Sumner, Jamie
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Ellie reluctantly agrees to enter a beauty pageant with her best friend Coralee, the director seems determined to feature Ellie and her wheelchair, so she must find a way to participate on her own terms, all while saving her friendship and forming a better relationship with her divorced dad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUMLupica, Mike.
Summary: Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LUPThomas, Leah
Summary: " Ollie and Moritz might never meet, but their friendship knows no bounds. Their letters carry on as Ollie embarks on his first road trip away from the woods--no easy feat for a boy allergic to electricity--and Moritz decides which new school would best suit an eyeless boy who prefers to be alone. Along the way they meet other teens like them, other products of strange science who lead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THOLowry, Lois
Summary: Told in two voices, two outcasts in an Iron Age village befriend each other, as disabled, orphaned Varick helps Estrild achieve her dream of becoming the first female warrior. Inspired by the Windeby bog body.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LOWPhilbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman)
Summary: At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PHITuitel, Johnnie
Summary: At Camp Riley, Johnnie meets his first girlfriend, wrestles with some jealousy, conquers some fears, and finds himself inside a real ghost story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cedar Tree Pub. 2004
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC TUIZimmer, Tracie Vaughn.
Summary: Josie, who lives with her mother and grandmother and has cerebral palsy, befriends a boy who moves into one of the rich houses behind her old farmhouse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC ZimmeWoloson, Eliza.
Summary: A young boy named Charlie describes the activities he shares with his friend Isabelle, a girl with Down Syndrome.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Woodbine House 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WOLCervantes, Jennifer
Summary: "When a few Mexica gods try to put their Maya counterparts out of commission, it's up to Zane and some godborns-in-training to save the universe"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rick Riordan Presents, Disney Hyperion 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CERBowling, Dusti
Summary: New friends and a mystery help Aven, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2017
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Summary: Best friends Mary Lennox, Sara Crewe, and Cedric Erroll flee their repressive boarding school, intending to start over in the theaters of Paris, but they instead find themselves at Cedric's estate in Yorkshire, where a hidden garden helps them realize their destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC STOFrey, Sarah Kathryn
Summary: "Alice Eloise's Silver Linings is the story of a silly, playful Double Doodle pup named Alice Eloise who dreams of becoming a service dog for her best friend, Sarah Kate. But no matter how hard she tries, Alice Eloise just can't tame her natural silliness into the serious respectability service dogs so often possess. Sarah Kate believes in Alice Eloise, encouraging her to look for the 'silver...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Once Upon a Silver Lining 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FREDungy, Tony.
Summary: Jade wants to be friends with the new girl, but Hannah's wheelchair seems to present an obstacle until Jade is reminded that everyone is special in God's eyes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon Inspirations 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Dungy 2011Stauffacher, Sue
Summary: Although tough-talking Harry Sue would like to start a life of crime in order to be "sent up" and find her incarcerated mother, she must first protect the children at her neglectful grandmother's home day care center and befriend a paralyzed boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC STAPlourde, Lynn
Summary: A boy with Down syndrome and his dog are best friends, but how will they manage being apart when the boy heads to school for the first time?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, an imprint of Capstone 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PLOMartin, Ann M.
Summary: The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MARShriver, Maria.
Summary: Making friends with a mentally retarded boy helps Kate learn that the two of them have a lot in common.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2001