Sortino, Anna
Summary: When eighteen-year-old Ellie's Deaf boarding school shuts down, she attends a public high school where she struggles to adjust, but finds an ally in Jackson, a soccer player going through a disability diagnosis of his own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SORHo, Carina
Summary: "Welcome to Sametown where everyone and everything is ... well ... the same. Except our protagonist: Mighty Mara! She's a little different. While her classmates sign up and ready their performances for the school talent show, Mara musters up the courage to also sign up--but unlike the others, she's going to dance, dance, dance! The only problem is, everyone encourages her not to! Mara won't let...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paw Prints Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOPatterson, James
Summary: "While on a mission to win the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic regional competition, New York middle schooler Jamie Grimm copes with rival comics and bullies, a buddy in trouble, and a sudden family emergency, all with a sense of humor and a loyal group of friends"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PATCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction PatBowling, Dusti
Summary: Eight-year-old Aven Green is despondent when she does not master the piano in one day, but with new inspiration from guitarist Mr. Tom, who is armless like her, along with a special gift from her great-grandma, Aven learns she does not need to be perfect to perform.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BOWCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BOWVan Draanen, Wendelin.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VANBerk, Josh.
Summary: When Will Halpin transfers from his all-deaf school into a mainstream Pennsylvania high school, he faces discrimination and bullying, but still manages to solve a mystery surrounding the death of a popular football player in his class.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred. A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BERCujec, Carol
Summary: Sometimes Charity cannot control her body and because she has low-functioning autism, Charity cannot communicate her thoughts to anyone else, even though she feels all of the frustrations, fears, and doubts of a typical thirteen-year-old.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CUJMcCoy, Mary
Summary: "Over the course of her high school years, awkward Claudia McCarthy finds herself unwittingly drawn into the dark side of her school's student government, with dire consequences"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MCCAnderson, Laurie Halse.
Summary: Adjusting to middle school becomes easier for twelve-year-old Maggie when she finds that her biology teacher, who is blind, can learn a few things from her about working with his guide dog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2009
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ANDStohl, Margaret
Summary: Best friends Mary Lennox, Sara Crewe, and Cedric Erroll flee their repressive boarding school, intending to start over in the theaters of Paris, but they instead find themselves at Cedric's estate in Yorkshire, where a hidden garden helps them realize their destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC STOPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: Inspired by a teacher who believes each of them is a genius, a class of special-needs students invents something that could convince the whole school they are justifiably proud to be "Junkyard Wonders."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2010