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1) The running dream

Author

Van Draanen, Wendelin

Language

English

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When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.

2) Family reminders

Author

Danneberg, Julie

Language

English

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In 1890s Cripple Creek, Colorado, when young Mary McHugh's father loses his leg in a mining accident, she tries to help, both by earning money and by encouraging her father to go back to carving wooden figurines and playing piano.

3) Hazard

Author

Dowell, Frances O'Roark

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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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...

4) Shark girl

Author

Bingham, Kelly L

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Pub. Date

2007

Language

English

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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.

5) Frank the seven-legged spider

Author

Razi, Michaele

Publisher

Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books

Pub. Date

[2017]

Language

English

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Frank loves making beautiful webs, scaring humans, running, and scurrying but after waking up one morning missing a leg, he wonders if he still is a spider.

6) What happened to you?

Author

Catchpole, James

Language

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...