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Sumner, Jamie

Summary: Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUM

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUM

Felder, Molly

Summary: The school dance is on Saturday, and twelve-year-old Drew Daniels, the Fantastic Freewheeler, has overused his information absorbing ability trying to impress his date, Maxima--so when an actual alien shows up at the Interplanetary Dance he can not use his power to communicate with the party crasher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FEL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC FEL (GRAPHIC NOVEL)

Sumner, Jamie

Summary: When thirteen-year-old Ellie reluctantly agrees to enter a beauty pageant with her best friend Coralee, the director seems determined to feature Ellie and her wheelchair, so she must find a way to participate on her own terms, all while saving her friendship and forming a better relationship with her divorced dad.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUM

Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)

Summary: Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory. She can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her and smarter than her classmates in her integrated classroom, the very same classmates who dismiss her as mentally challenged, because she cannot tell them otherwise. Melody...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC DRA

See, Melissa

Summary: Seventeen-year-olds Daisy, a talented violinist with cerebral palsy, and Noah, a great cellist with severe anxiety, plan to use the holiday concert to land a Julliard audition, but when they are chosen to play a duet, they worry their differences will sink their chances.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEE

Brown, Keah

Summary: Sam, who has cerebral palsy, goes back-to-school shopping with her best friends.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRO

Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)

Summary: A brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy, considered by many to be mentally retarded, discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2012

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Felder, Molly

Summary: A developer wants to bulldoze the only park in town and build a mall, but twelve-year-old Drew Daniels is not just a kid with cerebral palsy in a wheelchair, he is the Fantastic Freewheeler with the power to absorb information by touch--and he and his friends are determined to save their park.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FEL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC FEL (GRAPHIC NOVEL)

Durán, Cristina

Summary: "A narrative, in graphic novel format, following Cristina Durán and Miguel Ángel Giner Bou as they rebuild and reinvent themselves after their daughter Laia is born with cerebral palsy. Their story continues through the arduous process of adopting their second daughter, Selam, from Ethiopia"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi 2021

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 920 DUR

Kemmerer, Brigid

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: Eighteen for the three hundred twenty-seventh time, Prince Rhen despairs of breaking the curse that turns him into a beast at the end of each day until feisty Harper enters his life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2019

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION KEM

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KEM

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KEM

Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)

Summary: Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2010

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Draper 2010

Kemmerer, Brigid

Summary: Emberfall is torn between supporters of Rhen and Grey, who agreed not to attack for two months, while Lia Mara struggles to rule Syhl Shallow well and is beginning to question her alliance with Grey.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KEM

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KEM

Felder, Molly

Summary: On his twelfth birthday, Drew Daniels receives a chunk of alien spacecraft, but when a Martian secretly comes to take the piece back he gives Drew an even more amazing gift in exchange: the power to absorb information through touch.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FEL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC FEL (GRAPHIC NOVEL)

Kamata, Suzanne

Summary: Fifteen-year-old Aiko Cassidy, a manga enthusiast with cerebral palsy, spends a summer in Japan, learning about her father's family and making new friends, while avoiding her stepfather and baby half-sister.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Kamata 2019

Koertge, Ronald.

Summary: For sixteen-year-old Ben Bancroft - a kid with cerebral palsy, no parents, and an overprotective grandmother - the closest thing to happiness is hunkering alone in the back of the Rialto Theatre watching Bride of Frankenstein for the umpteenth time. Of course he waits for the lights to dim before making an entrance, so that his own lurching down the aisle doesn't look like an ad for Monster...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KOE

Tuitel, Johnnie

Summary: At Camp Riley, Johnnie meets his first girlfriend, wrestles with some jealousy, conquers some fears, and finds himself inside a real ghost story.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cedar Tree Pub. 2004

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC TUI

Felder, Molly

Summary: Drew Daniels, aka the Fantastic Freewheeler, is paired up with unlikable Brent Baker who hijacks their science project to build a mega robot that goes haywire, so Freewheeler uses his superpowers to figure out how to stop the destructive construction.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FEL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC FEL (GRAPHIC NOVEL)

Sachar, Louis

Summary: Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2006

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SAC

Zimmer, Tracie Vaughn.

Summary: Josie, who lives with her mother and grandmother and has cerebral palsy, befriends a boy who moves into one of the rich houses behind her old farmhouse.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2007

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC Zimme

Summary: Documentary about the friendship between a cerebral palsy patient and a Miss America contestant.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: [s. n.] 2003

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HAL

Summary: An inspiring story of independence that follows two unlikely friends determined to face the world on their own terms. Young Michael is a patient who is resigned to his quiet life within an institution's safe, predictable boundaries. Then, the rebellious Rory O'Shea bursts onto the scene. Now, with the help of the beautiful young Siobhan, who sings on as the boys' live-in aide, Rory will show...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROR

Kemmerer, Brigid

Summary: The curse is finally broken, but Prince Rhen of Emberfall faces darker troubles still. Rumors circulate that he is not the true heir and that forbidden magic has been unleashed in Emberfall. Loyalties are tested and new love blooms in a kingdom on the brink of war.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KEM

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KEM

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KEM

Trueman, Terry.

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TRU

Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: Chosen to be a U.S. spokesperson at an international symposium for kids with different abilities, Melody arrives in London where she meets like-minded kids who want to make the world more equal, no matter the unusual challenges they face, and hopes her words can make an impact.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024

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