Spanogle, Joshua.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SPASummary: Sonny and Pedro, two delightful animated characters, introduce you to a workout troupe that performs 9 different workout routines. Developed by disability fitness experts, each routine takes you through a warm up, a work out, and a cool down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Iris Media 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.704 WORWiseman, Ellen Marie
Summary: "Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary -- awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears -- seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WISBowers, Matt (Matthew David)
Summary: "A photo-illustrated book for elementary readers about Paralympic football, sitting volleyball, and goalball events. Includes descriptions of each of these men's and women's team sports. Readers will be introduced to some rules and how they may differ from their Olympic counterpart. Includes Q & A features, table of contents, photo captions, glossary, further resources, and index"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amicus/Amicus Ink 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.04 BOWBray, Libba.
Summary: Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BRADavis, Lennard J.
Summary: "The first significant book on the history and impact of the ADA--the "eyes on the prize" moment for disability rights The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the history of the United States, and it has become the model for most civil rights laws around the world. The untold story behind the act is anything but a dry...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305 DAVHoxie, Jim
Summary: "When Grandpa loses his sight, he attends a school for veterans who are visually impaired. There he regains his confidence for independent living. Grandpa shares these experiences and talks about educating children about the tall white cane."--Publisher
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Disabl HoxieBodeen, S. A. (Stephanie A.)
Summary: Emma and her father discuss what they will do when the new baby arrives, but they adjust their expectations when he is born with Down syndrome.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Woodbine House 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Social Emo Stuve-Bodeen 1998Gianferrari, Maria
Summary: "A tribute to all types of service dogs that perform important jobs, from providing emotional support to helping disabled people, gives thanks to every human's best friend"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Casanova, Mary.
Summary: When Seattle fourth-grader McKenna Brooks' cast comes off she dives back into gymnastics training in hopes of making the competitive team, but after volunteering at a therapeutic horseback riding center, she considers broadening her interests.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2012
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Summary: "A photo-illustrated book for elementary readers about Paralympic athletics, cycling, archery, and triathlon events. Includes descriptions of each of these men's and women's individual sports. Readers will be introduced to some rules and how they differ from their Olympic counterpart. Includes Q & A features, table of contents, photo captions, glossary, further resources, and index."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amicus/Amicus Ink 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.04 BOWTuckman, Ari
Summary: This pioneering book explores the impact of ADHD on a couple's sex life and relationship. It explains how a better sex life will benefit your relationship (and vice versa) and why that's especially important for couples with one partner with ADHD. Grounded in innovative research, ADHD After Dark draws on data from a survey of over 3000 adults in a couple where one partner has ADHD. Written from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.
Summary: It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aunt, taking a train to Chicago--but disaster seems to follow her there.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y DA BARSummary: What key issues and challenges affect the lives of people with severe disabilities today -- and what should tomorrow's professionals do to address them? Aligned with the core values and agenda of TASH, this visionary text prepares professionals to strengthen supports and services for people with disabilities across the lifespan. Readers will fully examine more than a dozen critical topics in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.4 EQUPlohl, Igor
Summary: "Lucas the Lion discovers the Paralympics--where physically disabled world-class athletes exemplify strength, determination, and courage"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PLOMohammadi, Hadi
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Elsewhere Editions 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MOHAgar, Johnny
Summary: "The incredible story of Johnny Agar, born with cerebral palsy and who doctors thought would never walk, overcoming the odds to participate in long-distance endurance races with his dad pushing him, until the final mile when he walks across the finish line." - provided by publisher
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dexterity 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AGAR, JOHNNY AGASummary: This program challenges the preconception that being physically disabled necessarily means a lack of desire for physical intimacy. Through candid interviews with people who have substantial physical disabilities-cases involving paraplegia, quadriplegia, kyphoscoliosis, neuromuscular disorders, and other conditions-the video expresses their needs as human beings, examines constraints placed upon...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Lee, Marie Myung-Ok
Summary: After moving to a new suburb, a Korean American teen must fight to protect herself and her neurodivergent older brother from a hostile community in this tragic story of bigotry and gun violence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEELowry, Lois.
Summary: Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Lowry 2003Wiseman, Ellen Marie
Summary: Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary--awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears--seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a car...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WISCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WISCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WISCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction WisemanSummary: International art sensation Keith Haring blazed a trail through the legendary art scene of '80s New York and revolutionized the worlds of pop culture and fine art. Haring's message targeted the underlying threat of violence, sexual exploitation, and political oppression. His art was shown in over one hundred group and solo exhibitions during his lifetime and he continues to be celebrated today.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KEISpencer, Elizabeth
Summary: Over the course of a career that spanned six decades, the southern novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Spencer established herself as one of the finest literary artists of a generation that included Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty. This definitive volume brings together three remarkable novels: The Voice at the Back Door, her powerful masterpiece about racial...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPECorrea, Armando Lucas
Summary: "Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a child. For the last twenty years, she hasn't been able to see movement. As she walks around her upper Manhattan neighborhood with her white stick tapping in front, most people assume she's blind. But the truth is Leah sees a good deal, and with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice. She...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024