Sumner, Jamie
Summary: Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2019
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Summary: Best friends Emma and Izzie take a pottery class together and make a new friend. Includes an ASL fingerspelling chart and a sign language guide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE REIMidori, Wataru
Summary: "As schools reopen and clubs reconvene after COVID-19 closures, Kikuzato is eager to try out his new leg. But even with the improved fit, his worry about falling like he did in his first public race plagues his training for the next. Running is as much a mental game as it is a physical one, and between his fear and his fight with Take, Kikuzato isn't seeing the improvement he hoped his new leg...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 RUNRahman, Bahram
Summary: Young Aria returns to school after recovering from an accident and being fitted with a prosthetic leg, but the school has no furniture and sitting on the floor is too painful. She finds a way to build her own bench, surprising and inspiring her classmates. A sensitive author's note addresses the author's experience growing up in Afghanistan during the civil war and the legacy of landmines. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press Inc. 2021
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Summary: Moses and his schoolmates, all deaf, attend a concert where the orchestra's percussionist is also deaf. Includes illustrations in sign language and a page showing the manual alphabet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MILCondra, Estelle
Summary: Driving through mountain fog to the beach, two young brothers compete to see who will catch the first glimpse of the ocean, but it is their blind sister Nellie who senses it first.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eager Minds Press 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC CONSummary: Presents stories about three different Amish couples, including "Their Second Chance," where Amish nanny Hannah Eicher falls for English fireman Rob Prince, but does not believe their love can overcome her family's objections.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRABurnett, Frances Hodgson
Summary: A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Classics 1987
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Summary: Hannah, a blind girl living in Michigan in the late nineteenth century, doesn't go to school until a new teacher tells her about the Braille method of reading for the blind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WHESimon, Rachel
Summary: A novel about a woman who can't speak, a man who is deaf, and a widow who finds herself suddenly caring for a newborn baby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SIMDe Angeli, Marguerite
Summary: A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1989
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DEAMayer, Gina.
Summary: Little Critter discovers that the new boy in class is really not so different from anyone else, even though he is in a wheelchair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Western Pub. Co. 1993
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: P-J Basket MAYWalton, Jessica
Summary: Maisie is on her way to her first fancon and she can't wait to meet her idol, an action star who had an above-the-knee amputation, just like Maisie. But then she meets Ollie. Ollie is a cute volunteer working the show, and they geek out about nerd culture, just as much as Maisie does. After spending the day together, Maisie notices feelings for Ollie that she's never had before. Could Ollie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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Summary: Tess Medina is dealing with the loss of her beloved father, a new school, and the troubling fact that the thing she enjoys most in life, baking, seems to be making her increasingly ill--something she is trying to hide from everybody.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The Doctor and his companions are lost in time. Expecting to be reunited with the TARDIS following a secret mission for the Time Lords, they instead find themselves on a plague-stricken space station orbiting the remnants of Voga, Planet of Gold. The Doctor, Harry and Sarah Jane have stumbled into the last battle of an ancient conflict between humankind and one of its most terrifying foes -...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd and his cold case team tackle their cases with a new colleague, Sarah Cavendish, a brilliant ex-counter-terrorism officer who has fallen from grace. Will she help or hinder the team₂s searches for a killer with a twisted mind; the perpetrators of crippling state childcare; and the murderer of a veteran-turned-peace activist, rumored to have been killed by the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WAKSummary: Conan the barbarian: Cimmerian Conan is captured as a child after his parents are murdered by raiding Vanir led by Thulsa Doom. After years of enslavement, Conan is freed to learn the "riddle of steel" and to kill the arch-villain Thulsa Doom
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CONJenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021