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3) Half a king
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Heir to the throne Yarvi, prompted by the murder of his father, embarks on a kingdom-transforming journey to regain the throne, even though having only one good hand means he cannot wield a weapon.
Prince Yarvi has vowed to regain a throne he never wanted... if he can must survive cruelty, chains, and the bitter waters of the Shattered Sea. Born with only one good hand, in a world where a strong arm and a cold heart rule, Yarvi cannot grip a shield...
5) Mind's eye
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A novel in play form in which sixteen-year-old Courtney, paralyzed in an accident, learns about the power of the mind from an elderly blind woman who takes Courtney on an imaginary journey to Italy using a 1910 guidebook.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
7) Otherspace
Author
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Now almost fifteen, Jacob leaves his good friends, Xander and Delaney, and sets out for the distant planet of Teiresias, where he believes he will find other Seers and learn about the visions he has had since gaining his sight on his home planet, Harmony, where blindness is the rule.
9) Comfort
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1945 Hickory, North Carolina, Ann Fay's father is back from the war but she must still rely on her own strength and determination as she faces the problems of her polio-induced disability and her father's failure to get a job. Includes facts about the disability rights movement.
10) Blind spot
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Tricia Farni was last seen alive the night she fought with Roswell Hart--a night Roz can't remember. Can Roz piece together the events of that night, despite the eye disease that robs her of most of her vision, in order to clear her name and find a murderer?"--
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After moving with her mother and deaf brother to Grandma's small Georgia town in the 1960s, Alice copes with feelings of isolation by befriending the elderly black woman who lives next door.
14) Freak the Mighty
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
15) Lucy's picture
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1994, 1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl creates a special picture that her blind grandfather can "see" with his hands.
16) Going bovine
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Even though Alex is a dwarf and sometimes has to use a wheelchair because of the operation he had on his back, his friend does not mind because they still have good times together.
19) McKenna
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seattle fourth-grader McKenna Brooks, who lives for gymnastics, struggles with school work until Josie, a tutor confined to a wheelchair, helps her with reading comprehension and much more.
20) The weirdo
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Chip Clewt fights to save the black bears in the Powhaten National Wildlife Refuge.
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