Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Bucking the Sarge	Christopher Paul Curtis	Luther T. Farrell has got to get out of Flint, Michigan.As his best friend Sparky says, "Flint's nothing but the Titanic."And his mother, a.k.a. the Sarge, says, "Take my advice and stay off the suck…	OL115598W
Fluffy	Danielle Johnson	Sam loses his cat Fluffy, who is old and blind, and fears that he will never see her again.	OL14864126W
Alex is my friend	Marisabina Russo	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.	OL15005545W
Things that are	Andrew Clements	Still adjusting to being blind, Alicia must outwit an invisible man who is putting her family and her boyfriend, who was once invisible himself, in danger.	OL15101260W
Quest for Camelot	J. J. Gardner,Vera Chapman	When the magic sword Excalibur is stolen from King Arthur, Camelot is plunged into darkness and despair. A spirited young girl named Kayley decides to find the sword and return it to the King, but ca…	OL15798598W
Your towns and cities	Eleanor Thomas	A social studies textbook for the upper elementary grades. Examines many aspects of life in three cities, San Francisco, South Bend, and Washington, D.C., and in the country of Thailand.	OL15846130W
The Half-a-Moon Inn	Paul Fleischman	A mute boy is held captive by the strange proprietress of an inn.	OL15970890W
Stuck in neutral	Terry Trueman	Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father …	OL18165306W
Dear Santa, please come to the 19th floor	Yin.	Willy and Carlos, who is in a wheelchair, receive a visit from Santa on Christmas Eve, even though they live on the nineteenth floor of their building.	OL1964931W
Why do some people use wheelchairs?	Mary Atkinson	Explores the subject of disabilities through questions and answers, such as "Why does my friend wear a hearing aid," "Why do some people read with their fingers," and "Why do some buildings have ramp…	OL24860930W
Mary Mehan awake	Jennifer L. Armstrong	While working as a servant in the home of a naturalist, Mary Mehan gradually recovers from the numbing effects of her experience as a Civil War nurse and falls in love with a man who had lost his hea…	OL28177248W
Out of the dark	Betty Ren Wright	When Jessica moves to her grandmother's childhood home and makes friends with the handicapped girl next door, she begins to have nightmares about the old schoolhouse in the woods.	OL32486W
One TV blasting and a pig outdoors	Deborah Abbott	Conan describes life with his father who lost his hearing at the age of three.	OL3463060W
Sarah's sleepover	Bobbie Rodriguez	When the lights go out while her cousins are spending the night, a young blind girl shows them what to do in the dark.	OL455129W
It's your turn at bat	Barbara Aiello	While reluctantly doing research on sewing machines for a school report, Mark, a fifth-grader with cerebral palsy, discovers that the money for his team's baseball jerseys that he was responsible for…	OL4626800W
Arnie and the new kid	Nancy L. Carlson	When an accident requires Arnie to use crutches, he begins to understand the limits and possibilities of his new classmate, who has a wheelchair.	OL491460W
Susan laughs	Jeanne Willis,Tony Ross	Rhyming couplets describe a wide range of common emotions and activities experienced by a little girl who uses a wheelchair.	OL501182W
The light on Hogback Hill	Cynthia C. DeFelice	When she investigates the mysterious light up on Hogback Hill, eleven-year-old Hadley finds and befriends a hunchbacked old woman with a tragic past.	OL504710W
What if you couldn't ... ?	Janet Kamien	Considers physical, mental, and emotional handicaps and how people deal with them.	OL6808440W
The Secret Code	Dana Meachen Rau	Oscar, who is blind, teaches Lucy how to read his Braille book.	OL8211418W