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2) How we roll
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Quinn is a teen who loves her family, skateboarding, basketball, and her friends, but after she's diagnosed with a condition called alopecia which causes her to lose all of her hair, her friends abandon her. Jake was once a star football player, but because of a freak accident - caused by his brother - he loses both of his legs. Quinn and Jake meet and find the confidence to believe in themselves again, and maybe even love.
Author
Series
What happened to you? volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Imagine you were asked the same question again and again throughout your life... Imagine if it was a question that didn't bring about the happiest of memories... This is the experience of one-legged Joe, a child who just wants to have fun in the playground... Constantly seen first for his disability, Joe is fed up of only ever being asked about his leg. All he wants to do is play Pirates. But as usual, one after the other, all the children ask him...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In this contemporary retelling of "Beauty and the Beast," a teenaged boy whose hands were amputated in an explosion and a gorgeous girl whose mother has recently died form an instant connection when they meet on their first day as new students.
Author
Series
What happened to you? volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"A young boy with a limb difference wishes people could see him for who he is, rather than treating him as "so amazing" due to his disability"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Fifteen-year-old Angela, distraught over her mother and stepfather's separation, confides in a statue of St. Felix that suddenly seems to come alive, after which she befriends Jesse, a nineteen-year-old disabled veteran, although Felix, her family, and friends warn her to be wary of him.
11) Unstoppable
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"If anyone understands the phrase 'tough luck,' it's Harrison. As a foster kid in a cruel home, he knows his dream of one day playing for the NFL is a long shot. Then Harrison's luck seems to change. He is brought into a new home with kind, loving parents--his new dad is even a football coach. Harrison's big build and his incredible determination quickly make him a star running back on the junior high school team. In no time, he's practically unstoppable....
12) Wind Dancer
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Having lost her beloved pony in a traumatic accident, thirteen-year-old Ali is reluctant to help her parents care for a neglected, malnourished Appaloosa, but working with Wind Dancer is a good distraction from problems surrounding her brother, who recently returned from Afghanistan with a missing leg and PTSD.
13) Hazard
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Told in a series of reports to his therapist, Hazard is resentful about being forced into counseling after being suspended from his school football team for unsportsmanlike conduct, angry that his father has served four tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, angry that his father has lost a leg when an IED blew up--but as his therapy progresses he begins to process what has happened to him and his family, including his father's psychological trauma...
14) Shark girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future.
15) Open wounds
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
After an abusive childhood in 1930s New York, Cedric Wymann, now orphaned, is taken in by a cousin suffering from mustard gas poisoning who becomes a father, helps him reconnect with friends, and finds him a fencing teacher, giving Cedric a means to avenge past wrongs and forge a better future.
16) One-handed catch
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
After losing his hand in an accident in his father's butcher shop in 1946, sixth-grader Norman uses hard work and humor to learn to live with his disability and to succeed at baseball, art, and other activities.