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1) Moses goes to school

Author

Series

Moses volume 2

Publisher

Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Pub. Date

2000

Language

English

Description

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Moses and his friends enjoy the first day of school at their special school for the deaf and hard of hearing, where they use sign language to talk to each other.

2) Hannah

Author

Language

English

Description

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Hannah, a blind girl living in the late nineteenth century, doesn't go to school, until a new teacher tells her about the Braille method of reading for the blind.

3) Stay away from Simon

Author

Publisher

Clarion Books

Pub. Date

c1985

Language

English

Description

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Lucy and her younger brother examine their feelings about a mentally handicapped boy they both fear when he follows them home one snowy day.

4) Lad, a dog: Lad to the rescue

Author

Publisher

Scholastic Inc

Pub. Date

c1997

Language

English

Description

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Having befriended a young girl who is unable to walk, Lad risks his life to save her from a poisonous snake.

5) Peg

Author

Stewart, Maddie

Publisher

Crabtree Pub. Co

Pub. Date

2002

Language

English

Description

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Peg the hen, who has only one leg, becomes an unusual but much loved mother.

6) Prairie school: story

Author

Publisher

HarperCollins

Pub. Date

c2001

Language

English

Description

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In 1880, Noah's aunt teaches the reluctant nine-year-old how to read as they explore the Colorado prairie together, Noah pushing Aunt Dora in her wheelchair.

7) Knots on a counting rope

Author

Martin, Bill, 1916

Pub. Date

c1987

Language

English

Description

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A grandfather and his blind grandson, Boy-Strength-of-Blue-Horses, reminisce about the young boy's birth, his first horse, and an exciting horse race.

8) Blind outlaw

Author

Publisher

Holiday House

Pub. Date

c1980

Language

English

Description

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A blind outlaw horse is tamed by a boy who can not speak.

9) Mandy Sue Day

Author

Publisher

Clarion Books

Pub. Date

c1994

Language

English

Description

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Using her senses of taste, hearing, touch, and smell, a blind girl enjoys a special day on the farm.

10) See you tomorrow, Charles

Author

Language

English

Description

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The first graders learn to accept the new boy, who is blind, as just like themselves.

11) Be good to Eddie Lee

Author

Fleming, Virginia M

Publisher

Philomel Books

Pub. Date

c1993

Language

English

Description

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Although Christy considered him a pest, when Eddie Lee, a boy with Down's Syndrome, follows her into the woods, he shares several special discoveries with her.

12) The angel of Mill Street

Author

Weller, Frances Ward

Publisher

Philomel

Pub. Date

1998

Language

English

Description

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On a snowy Christmas eve in the late 1800s, Frances and her family wait and worry when beloved Uncle Ambrose, who has a crippled leg, does not come home as expected.

13) The secret garden

Author

Hautzig, Deborah

Publisher

Grosset & Dunlap

Pub. Date

c1995

Language

English

Description

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Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

14) A wheel life lesson

Author

Potter, Noel Gyro

Publisher

Magic Wagon

Pub. Date

c2009

Language

English

Description

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Marshall's dad invites Tate, a girl confined to a wheelchair, to his karate studio to learn self-defense moves.

15) The storm

Author

Publisher

Cobblehill Books/Dutton

Pub. Date

c1995

Language

English

Description

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Though confined to a wheelchair, Jonathan faces the terror of a tornado all by himself and saves the lives of the horses on the family farm. The story could have taken place in Kansas during tornado season.

16) Bird boy

Author

Hill, Elizabeth Starr

Publisher

Farrar Straus Giroux

Pub. Date

c1999

Language

English

Description

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Chang, a mute Chinese boy whose father uses cormorants to fish, is pleased when he is finally old enough to help with the Big Catch and the raising of a new bird.

17) Moses goes to a concert

Author

Series

Moses volume 1
MSU Children's and YA Literature Collection

Language

English

Description

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Moses and his schoolmates, all deaf, attend a concert where the orchestra's percussionist is also deaf. Includes illustrations in sign language and a page showing the manual alphabet.

18) Jungle School

Author

Laird, Elizabeth

Series

Publisher

Crabtree Pub. Co

Pub. Date

2006

Language

English

Description

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New at school, Jani shows her monkey classmates all the ways that her wheelchair makes her special.

19) Dad and me in the morning

Author

Publisher

A. Whitman

Pub. Date

1994

Language

English

Description

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A deaf boy and his father share a special time as they watch the sun rise at the beach.

20) Chang and the bamboo flute

Author

Hill, Elizabeth Starr

Publisher

Farrar Straus Giroux

Pub. Date

2002

Language

English

Description

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Chang, a mute Chinese boy whose father uses cormorants to fish, becomes a hero when a heavy rain strands his father's fishing raft.