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Good Reads DISABILITIES & DIFFERENCES
Fiction \ Nonfiction
Fiction
The following books can be found in the Fiction collection, shelved
by the first three letters of the author's last name, e.g., F BAR
Anderson,
Laurie Halse. SPEAK. Melinda begins high school friendless
and hated; she busted an end-of-summer party. She retreats into her head, and
she must speak, but she doesn't want to think about what really happened.
Bach, Alice. WAITING
FOR JOHNNY MIRACLE. Twins
Becky and Theo are bright, athletic, and identical in every way but one
– Becky has cancer in her leg. Baker, Julie. Up
When
union members arrive to organize their West Virginia coal mining town,
fourteen-year-old Clarence Henderson, shunned for his cleft lip, and his
neighbor Elizabeth Braxton narrate the changes in their own lives and in the
lives of everyone in their community. Benjamin, E.MJ. TAKEDOWN.
When
Jake begins having unexplained seizures, he is unable to handle the changes
that occur in his personal life. Bloor, Edward. TANGERINE. Paul,
who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the
right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember
the incident that damaged his eyesight. Brancato, Robin. WINNING. Bridgers, Sue Ellen. ALL
TOGETHER NOW. Dwayne
is 33 with the mind of a 12-year-old. When Casey, a tomboy, comes to
stay the summer with her grandparents, she meets Dwayne who changes her life
forever. Eleven-year-old
Byars, Betsy. THE
SUMMER OF THE SWANS. Sara
is 14 with a younger brother, Charlie, who is mentally retarded. When
Sara takes him to the park one day, Charlie becomes fascinated by some swans. Carlson, Nolan. Lame Eagle and Wind Chaser.
[2005]. A story about a disabled Native American
boy who with courage, determination, and a prophecy from Running Elk, his
vision quest, became a legend in his own time and for generations to
come. Travel back with Lame Eagle and
his amazing pony, Wind Chaser, and experience the challenge and final victory
of a boy who wouldn't be defeated. Cleaver, Vera and
Bill. ME TOO. Lornie and Clements, Andrew. Things that are. [2008]. 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. Clements, Andrew.
Things not seen. When
fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself
invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out
what caused his condition and how to reverse it. Colman, Hila. ACCIDENT. When
Adam asks Jenny for a date, he has no idea it will turn out so
drastically. They are both involved in a motorcycle accident that
leaves Jenny paralyzed and Adam traumatized. Covintron, Dennis. LIZARD. Lucius has been deformed since birth with eyes
that look in different directions, and a nose that lies down on its
side. He escapes an institution and embarks on numerous adventures with
a theatrical troupe. Cross, Gillian. Phoning
a dead man. When
John, a British demolitions expert, is supposedly killed blowing up a
building in Siberia, his fiancée Annie insists on investigating, despite
being in a wheelchair, and John's teenage sister Hayley
goes along and finds that the Russian Mafia is involved. Crutcher, Chris. THE
CRAZY HORSE ELECTRIC GAME. Willie
was the star of his baseball team until a freak boating accident leaves him
hurt and brain damaged. ___________ . RUNNING
LOOSE. Louie
Banks has good friends, a starting spot on the football team, and a terrific
girlfriend. Unfortunately, when tragedy strikes and starts robbing him
of these things, he must learn how to release his anger and find something
else to believe in. ___________ . STAYING
FAT FOR SARAH BYRNES. Because
of their "terminal uglies", Eric Calhoune and Sarah Byrnes become fast friends. But when
the truth of her horrific past catches up with Sarah, it is Eric's mission to
help her find a way through the pain. ___________ . WHALE
TALK. Intellectually
and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized
sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he
agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less
popular students. Cimmings, Priscilla. A
FACE FIRST. Twelve-year-old
Kelley decides to cut off contact with her friends and classmates after
suffering third-degree burns to her face and body in a car accident near her
home on Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bucking the Sarge.
[2004]. Deeply involved in his cold and
manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan,
fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy
Neighbor Group Home For Men, all the while dreaming of going to college and
becoming a philosopher. Ferris, Jean. OF
SOUND MIND. Tired
of interpreting for his deaf family and resentful of their reliance on him,
high school senior Theo finds support and understanding from Ivy, a new
student who also has a deaf parent. Fleischman, Paul.
MIND'S EYE. A
novel in play form in which sixteen-year-old Courtney, paralyzed in an
accident, learns about the power of the mind from an elderly blind woman who
takes Courtney on an imaginary journey to Gantos, Jack. JOEY
PIGZA SWOLLOWED THE KEY. To
the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble
paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription meds
wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired. Greenberg,
Joanne. OF SUCH SMALL DIFFERENCES. John’s
world is unimaginable to those who can see and hear. Being blind and
deaf is bad enough but not as bad as truing to love someone. Guest, Jacqueline. At risk. [2004]. Tia, who works during the summer at a
"scared straight" ranch for at-risk teenagers and dreams of
becoming a psychologist, tries to bond with a young man named Sage, who
rebuffs her attempts until he is blamed for a theft. Halliday, John. Shooting
monarchs. Macy
and Danny, two teenage boys who have both grown up under difficult
circumstances, turn out very differently--one becomes a hero, the other a
murderer. Hesser, Terry Spencer. KISSING
DOORKNOBS. Fourteen-year-old
Holt, Kimberly
Willis. WHEN ZACHARY BEAVER CAME TO TOWN. During
the summer of 1971 in a small Howell, Simmone.
Everything beautiful. [2008].
After sixteen-year-old Riley Rose, an
atheist, is tricked into spending her summer at a religious camp, she meets
Dylan Kier, an alumni camper who has recently become a paraplegic, and the
pair finds common ground with one another while questioning the Christian belief
system, their individual faiths, and love. Ingold, Jeanette. WINDOW. When
she comes to live with relatives on a Johnson, Harriet McBryde.
Accidents of nature. [2006]. Having always prided herself on blending
in with "normal" people despite her cerebral palsy,
seventeen-year-old Jean begins to question her role in the world while
attending a summer camp for children with disabilities. Johnston, Tim. Never
so green. In
Jordan, Sherryl. THE RAGING QUIET. Suspicious
of sixteen-year-old Marnie, a newcomer to their
village, the residents accuse her of witchcraft when she discovers that the
village madman is not crazy but deaf and she begins to communicate with him
through hand gestures. Kellogg, M. TELL
ME THAT YOU LOVE ME, JUNIE MOON. Having
had enough of institutionalized life, three handicapped individuals try to
live together in mainstream Kerr, M. E. LITTLE
LITTLE. This
is the story about two dwarfs in search of their place in the world. Koertge, Ronald. Stoner
& Spaz. A
troubled youth with cerebral palsy struggles toward self-acceptance with the
help of a drug-addicted young woman. Konigsburg, E. L. SILENT TO
THE BONE. When
he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister,
thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of
speech and only his friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth
about what really happened. Kurtz, Jane. THE
STORYTELLER'S BEADS. During
political strife and famine of the 1980's, two Ethiopian girls struggle to
overcome many difficulties, including their prejudices about each other, as
they journey out of Lawrence, Iain. GHOST
BOY. Unhappy
in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen-year-old albino boy who thinks
of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he works
with the elephants and searches for a sense of who he is. Lebert, Benjamin and Janeway, Carol Brown. Crazy. An
English translation of the German novel about Benjamin Lebert,
a sixteen-year-old with a disability who has been sent to a remedial boarding
school where he embarks on a discovery of life, friends, love, booze, girls,
and sex. L'Engle, Madeline. THE
YOUNG UNICORNS. Trying
to adjust to moving to the city doesn’t seem nearly as bad when the Lewis, Catherine.
Postcards to father Abraham : a novel. When
sixteen-year-old Meghan loses her leg to cancer and her brother to Lowery, Lois. GATHERING
BLUE. Lame
and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed
from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she
is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the
all-powerful Guardians. _________. The
silent boy. Katy,
the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded
boy. Marsden, John. CHECKERS. Speaking
from a mental hospital, a teenage girl recounts the tremendous media pressure
that preceded the breaking scandal of her father's unethical business
dealings. ________ . SO MUCH
TO TELL YOU. Martin, Rafe
and Bellm, Dan. Birdwing [2005].
Prince Ardwin,
known as Birdwing, the youngest of six brothers
turned into swans by their stepmother, is unable to complete the
transformation back into human form, so he undertakes a journey to discover
whether his feathered arm will be a curse or a blessing to him. Mathis, Sharon
Bell. LISTEN FOR THE FIG TREE. Muffin
Johnson, a black teen, is remarkably level-headed for a girl who is
blind. Her life becomes more complicated when her mother resorts to
alcohol to escape the approaching anniversary of her husband’s murder. McNeal, Laura and McNeal, Tom. The decoding of Lana Morris
[2007]. For sixteen-year-old Lana life is often
difficult, with a flirtatious foster father, an ice queen foster mother, a
houseful of special needs children to care for, and bullies harassing her,
until the day she ventures into an antique shop and buys a drawing set that
may change her life. Moore, Peter. Blind
sighted. Kirk,
a creative misfit who is in trouble at high school because he is bored with
his classes, learns to deal with his alcoholic mother, new friends, and life
with the help of a blind young woman who hires him to read to her. Morpurgo, Michael. Private
Peaceful. [2004]. When Thomas Peaceful's
older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up
as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his
country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself. Myers, Anna. ETHAN
BETWEEN US. In
an Newman, Leslea. FAT CHANCE. Judi
"knows" that if she were thinner, life would be perfect. Neufeld, John. TWINK. Harry
is 16 before he meets his stepsisters, Twink and Whizzer, for the first time. Harry knows Twink has cerebral palsy and is blind, but the sight of
her shakes him up at first. Through Twink’s
inner strength and will to survive, Harry learns the meaning of being human
and the joy of being alive. O'Connell, Rebecca.
MYRTLE OF WILLENDORF. A
bright and artistic young woman with a fondness for junk food experiences a
kooky modern-day coming of age by way of the Goddess within. Pendleton, Thomas. Mason. [2008]. Mason, a developmentally disabled teen in
Louisiana who possesses the power to project images from his mind into others'
sight, puts his ability to devastating use when his older brother Gene, a
drug-dealing sadist who routinely beats Mason, has Rene, Mason's only true
friend, brutally beaten, believing she has witnessed a murder he committed. Philbrick, Rodman. FREAK
THE MIGHTY. Learning-disabled
Max and physically handicapped Freak find that when they combine forces, they
make a powerful team. Picoult, Jodi. Handle with
care: a novel. [2009]. When Charlotte and Sean
O'Keefe learn about their daughter's illness (Osteogenesis imperfecta), they wonder if they should have known about
it sooner and begin to question what constitutes the value of even the most
fragile life. Platt, Kin.
THE BOY WHO COULD MAKE HIMSELF DISAPPEAR. Roger
is rejected by both of his parents after being seriously burned in an
accident. Plum-Ucci, Carol. THE BODY OF CHRISTOPHER CREED. Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly
perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious
disappearance of the class outcast. Powell, Randy. TRIBUTE
TO ANOTHER DEAD ROCK STAR. For
a tribute to his mother, a dead rock star, fifteen-year-old Grady returns to Rottman, S.L..
HEAD ABOVE WATER. Skye,
a high school junior, tries to find the time for both family obligations and
personal interests, which include caring for her brother who has Down
Syndrome, dating her first boyfriend, and swimming competitively. Sones, Sonya. STOP
PRETENDING: WHAT HAPPENED WHEN MY BIG SISTER WENT CRAZY. A
younger sister has a difficult time adjusting to life after her older sister
has a mental breakdown. Stahler, David. Truesight. [2004]. In a distant frontier world,
thirteen-year-old Jacob is uncertain of his future in a community that
considers blindness a virtue and "Seers" as aberrations. Tashjian, Janet. MULTIPLE
CHOICE. Monica,
a 14 year old perfectionist and word game expert, tries to break free from
all of the suffocating rules in her life by creating a game for living called
Multiple Choice. Taylor, Theodore. A
SAILOR RETURNS. Evan,
an 11 year old boy in 1914 whose strict father has little time for him, is
delighted when his long-lost grandfather returns, relates his many sea
adventures, and hobbles around like Evan who has a club foot. ____________ . THE
WIERDO.
Chip,
17, is a burn victim and lives with his father. It is through his
involvement with nature, a researcher, and a new friend that Chip learns to
value his life by protecting the lives of the animals of the swamp. Trembath, Don. LEFTY Fifteen-year-old
Lefty Carmichael, diagnosed with epilepsy, discovers he must not only learn
to deal with the seizures, but must also find a way to handle the reactions
of his family and friends to the news of his condition. Trueman, Terry. STUCK
IN NEUTRAL. 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 is planning to kill him. ________. Inside
out. A
16-year-old with schizophrenia is caught up in the events surrounding an
attempted robbery by two other teens who eventually
hold him hostage. ___________. Cruise control. [2004]. A talented basketball player struggles to
deal with the helplessness and anger that come with having a brother rendered
completely dysfunctional by severe cerebral palsy and a father who deserted
the family. Voigt, Cynthia. IZZY,
WILLY-NILLY. Izzy accepts a date with a senior which her parents
reluctantly allow her to keep. This small decision becomes the biggest
regret of Izzy and her parents’ lives as her
right leg has to be amputated below the knee after a car accident caused by a
drunk driver, her date. Voigt, Cynthia.
TREE BY LEAF. After
returning from WWI disfigured from injury, Clothilde’s
father moves into the boathouse trying to avoid contact with anyone. Clothilde comes to realize that being handicapped or jurt doesn’t mean you run away from those who love
you. Wartski, Maureen Crane. MY
BROTHER IS SPECIAL. This
story deals with the problems and situations a family faces while
establishing themselved in a new community. Noni spends a lot of time helping her 9-year-old brother
prepare for the Special Olympics. Weaver, Elizabeth
Nixon. Rooster. On
a small Wittlinger, Ellen. RAZZLE. When
his retired parents buy a group of tourist cabins on Wood, June Rae.
THE MAN WHO LOVED CLOWNS. Delrita is having to
deal with the typical adolescent concerns of and 8th grader while dealing
with the not-so-typical concerns of a brother who has Down’s syndrome. ___________ . WHEN
PIGS FLY. Thirteen-year-old
Buddy Rae and her best friend Jiniwin do eveything together--taking care of Buddy's slow younger
sister, "parenting" egg babies, talking about boys, and dealing
with Buddy's family move to a farm outside For additional
titles, see also: Kaywell, Joan F. Adolescents
at risk : a guide to fiction and nonfiction for
young adults, parents, and professionals. Ward,
Marilyn. Voices from the margins: an annotated bibliography pof fiction on disabilities and differences for young
people. 362.2808 GOR Gordon, Sol. When living hurts : a what-to-do book for yourself or someone you
care about who feels discouraged, sad, lonely, hopeless, angry or frustrated,
unhappy, bored, depressed, suicidal [2004]. A guide for young people who are
emotionally troubled and those who care for them. Identifies problem
symptoms, sources of help, and ways to cope with anxiety, anger, and
depression. Includes chapters that address needs of specific populations such
as teens with disabilities, family issues, or problems with drug use or
sexual activity. 813 OWN Gallo, Donald R. Owning it: stories about teens with disabilities. [2008]. Presents ten stories of teenagers facing
all of the usual challenges of school, parents, boyfriends and girlfriends,
plus the additional complications that come with having a physical or
psychological disability. AV DVD 305.9 TEE Teens and disabilities. [2004]. Explore different ways that disabilities
can impact a teen's life. Teens learn
the many different ways in which disabilities can manifest in people and how
they should treat and react to other teens with disabilities.
Stalcup, Brenda, ed. Disabled: Opposing
viewpoints. 362.4
MCH McHugh,
Mary. Special siblings: growing up with someone with a disability. Mary
McHugh discusses what it was like to grow up with her mentally disabled
brother and offers advice to other siblings on how to cope with their
parents' attitudes, how to deal with their feelings of guilt and resentment,
and how to take care of their own emotional needs when they are caring for
their disabled sibling.
371.9
BRI Brinkerhoff,
Shirley. Why can't I learn like everyone else?:
youth with learning disabilities. Presents
a story that provides insights into the challenges faced by children
suffering with learning disabilities, looks at who has learning disabilities,
and discusses the different types of learning disabilities, their diagnosis,
symptoms, and therapies. 614.5
MAC MacCracken, Mary. Turnabout children:
overcoming dyslexia and other learning disabilities. Heartwarming
story of Mary MacCracken's work with a group of
learning disabled children. 616.85
BEABeal, Eileen. Ritalin: its use and abuse. Describes
the medical uses of the prescription drug Ritalin, the problems presented by overprescribing it, its potential for abuse, and ways to
prevent such abuse. 618.92
DEG DeGrandpre, Richard J. Ritalin nation:
rapid-fire culture and the transformation of human consciousness. Studies attention deficit disorder and its most
commonly prescribed treatment, Ritalin, and discusses why more children are
being diagnosed with ADD, what causes ADD, how the drug Ritalin works, how
the increased use of Ritalin and other psychostimulant
drugs has affected society, and other related topics. CRC
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