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The polygamous Kevinian cult has taken everything from seventeen-year-old Minnow: twelve years of her life, her family, her ability to trust. And when she rebelled, they took away her hands, too. Now their Prophet has been murdered and their camp set aflame, and it's clear that Minnow knows something -- but she's not talking. As she languishes in juvenile detention, she struggles to un-learn everything she has been taught to believe, adjusting to...
3) Hazard
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English
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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...
6) Shark girl
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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.
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Skylar Evans, seventeen, yearns to escape Creek View by attending art school, but after her mother's job loss puts her dream at risk, a rekindled friendship with Josh, who joined the Marines to get away then lost a leg in Afghanistan, and her job at the Paradise motel lead her to appreciate her home town.
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English
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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...
11) Ninja Nate
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Nathaniel adopts a ninja alter ego to help him adjust to a new disability.
12) How we roll
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After developing alopecia Quinn lost her friends along with her hair and former football player Jake lost his legs and confidence after an accident, but the two help each other believe in themselves and the possibility of love.
After developing alopecia, Quinn lost her friends along with her hair. She also has to deal with her autistic brother-- and sexual harassment from fellow students back in Boulder. Now she is looking forward to a new start,...