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• What Happened to You?

  Catchpole, James, 1980-

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  Joe just wants to play pirates at the playground, but keeps getting interrupted with questions about what happened to his leg.

• My City Speaks

  Lebeuf, Darren,

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  A young girl explores her city with her father, taking in all its sensory details. Her city speaks to her in so many ways: "sometimes it echoes," and "sometimes it trills." It "buzzes and tweets and flocks." It's both "busy" and "relaxed," and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Talk Like a River

  Scott, Jordan, 1978-

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  When a child has a "bad speech day" at school, his father gives him a new perspective on his stuttering.

• Just Ask!

  Be Different, Be Brave, Be You

  Sotomayor, Sonia, 1954-

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  "A group of children with different abilities and strengths come together to build a community garden"

• Listen

  How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion

  Stocker, Shannon,

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  A nonfiction picture book biography celebrating Evelyn Glennie, a deaf woman, who became the first full-time solo percussionist in the world.

• Rescue & Jessica

  a Life-changing Friendship

  Kensky, Jessica,

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  When he is paired with a girl who has lost her legs, Rescue worries that he isn't up to the task of being her service dog.

• A Sky-blue Bench

  Rahman, Bahram, 1984-

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The William Hoy Story

  How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game

  Churnin, Nancy,

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  All William Ellsworth Hoy wanted to do was play baseball. After losing out on a spot on the local deaf team, William practiced even harder -- eventually earning a position on a professional team. But his struggle was far from over. In addition to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Way to the Top

  How One Girl's Fight for Americans With Disabilities Changed Everything

  Pimentel, Annette Bay,

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  Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at birth, Jennifer Keelan grew up battling - and overcoming - the limitations others set for her. From a lack of cutaway curbs and bus lifts to being denied enrollment at her neighborhood school, Jennifer was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Aven Green Sleuthing Machine

  Bowling, Dusti,

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  "Third-grader Aven Green has been solving mysteries for a whole month, cracking such cases as The Mystery of the Cranky Mom. But can this perceptive detective solve two cases at the same time? First her teacher's lunch bag disappears. Then Aven's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Not So Different

  What You Really Want to Ask About Having a Disability

  Burcaw, Shane,

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  A picture book answering the questions young children ask Shane Burcaw about his wheelchair and life with Spinal Muscular Atrophy with equal parts optimism, humor, and empathy.

• The Chance to Fly

  Stroker, Ali, 1987-

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  After moving across the country, thirteen-year-old Natalie auditions for her new school's play and overcomes her fears and insecurities about performing in a wheelchair.

• Roll With It

  Sumner, Jamie,

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  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.

• Marshmallow & Jordan

  Chau, Alina,

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  Jordan's days as the star player for her school's basketball team ended when an accident left her paralyzed ... Now, she's still the team captain, but her competition days seem to be behind her ... until an encounter with a mysterious elephant, who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

  Bowling, Dusti,

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  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.

• Air

  Roe, Monica, 1978-

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  Twelve-and-a-half year old Emelyn Ethrige lives with her father in South Carolina, dreams of wheelchair motocross, and makes custom chair bags trying to earn enough money to buy a serious set of wheels.

• The War That Saved My Life

  Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker,

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  Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada's twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn't waste a minute--she sneaks out…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Song for a Whale

  Kelly, Lynne, 1969-

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  From fixing the class computer to repairing old radios, twelve-year-old Iris is a tech genius. But she's the only deaf person in her school, so people often treat her like she's not very smart. If you've ever felt like no one was listening to you,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lila and Hadley

  Keplinger, Kody,

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  Hadley is angry: angry at her mother for embezzling money, angry at her estranged older sister, whom she has to live with while her mother is in jail, angry at having to move to Kentucky away from her friends, and angry at the world because she has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hummingbird

  Lloyd, Natalie,

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  "Twelve-year-old homeschooled Olive is tired of being seen as 'fragile' just because she has osteogenesis imperfecta (otherwise known as brittle bone disease) so she's thrilled when she finally convinces her parents to let her attend public school.…Read moreRead more of this annotation