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How to walk away

Katherine Center · 302 pages

Disabled ProtagonistAccident SurvivalContemporary FictionHopeful
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Playing Hurt

Holly Schindler · 303 pages

Chelsea Keyes, a high school basketball star whose promising career has been cut short by a terrible accident on the court, and Clint Morgan, a nineteen-year-old ex-hockey player who gave up his sport following a game-related tragedy, meet at a Minnesota lake resort and find themselves drawn together by the losses they have suffered.

Accident SurvivalDisabled ProtagonistDeath of a SiblingFemale Lead
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Left Neglected

Lisa Genova · 416 pages

Accident SurvivalDisabled ProtagonistContemporary FictionHopeful
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Blind

Rachel DeWoskin · 405 pages

After a horrific accident leaves her blind, fifteen-year-old Emma, one of seven children, eagerly starts high school as a sophomore, and finds that nearly everything has changed--sometimes for the better. After a horrific accident leaves her blind, fifteen-year-old Emma eagerly starts high school as a sophomore and finds that nearly everything has changed, sometimes for the better. The plot conta

Accident SurvivalDisabled ProtagonistContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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Push Girl

Chelsie Hill, Jessica Love · 233 pages

Kara, a high school junior, is popular with a great group of friends, an amazing boyfriend, and expectations of being Homecoming Queen until she leaves a party angry and wakes up in a hospital bed, paralized from the waist down, but as she is forced to adjust to her new physical reality, she also learns that her friends are not who they seemed to be.

Accident SurvivalDisabled ProtagonistContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

Heidi W. Durrow · 264 pages

After a family tragedy orphans her, Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., moves into her grandmother's mostly black community in the 1980s, where she must swallow her grief and confront her identity as a biracial woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.

Accident SurvivalDeath of a SiblingContemporary FictionHopeful
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Winners

Danielle Steel · 416 pages

Paralyzed by a tragic chairlift accident, seventeen-year-old competitive skier Lily struggles with the loss of her Olympic dreams before meeting a young man, Teddy, who has overcome his own devastating injuries to pursue an enriching life.

Accident SurvivalDisabled ProtagonistContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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The Running Dream

Wendelin Van Draanen · 336 pages

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.

Accident SurvivalDisabled ProtagonistContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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The Girl Death Left Behind

Lurlene McDaniel · 176 pages

Numb with grief when an accident kills her entire family, fourteen-year-old Beth suddenly finds herself living with her spoiled cousin Terri and trying to make friends at a new school.

Accident SurvivalDeath of a SiblingSudden LossFemale Lead
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Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse · 235 pages

"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ." A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands. To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. Wh

Accident SurvivalDisabled ProtagonistHopefulFemale Lead
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If I Stay

Gayle Forman · 272 pages

*Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel. I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. And I listen. Stay, he says.* Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind? Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, an

Accident SurvivalDeath of a SiblingContemporary FictionHopeful
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Lucky Broken Girl

Ruth Behar · 243 pages

In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.

Accident SurvivalDisabled ProtagonistHopefulFemale Lead
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The Protected

Claire Zorn · 276 pages

Nearly a year after her popular older sister's accidental death, Hannah meets Anne, a guidance counselor, and Josh, a potential new friend, who offer her the chance to move forward.

Accident SurvivalDeath of a SiblingContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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Follow My Leader

James B. Garfield · 191 pages

A young boy blinded in an accident learns to overcome his disability with the help of a seeing eye dog. Jimmy and the guys were playing around. Mike decides to light a giant firecracker. Jimmy yells for him not to and, reacting instinctively to the voice, Mike throws the firecracker at Jimmy. Jimmy ends up totally blind and feels helpless and isolated from his old friends. While he's knocki

Accident SurvivalDisabled ProtagonistHopefulTeen Protagonist
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The Horse Whisperer

Nicholas Evans · 448 pages

A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path. In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered. And a mother's quest begins -- to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain. It is an odyssey that will bring her to...The Horse WhispererHe is the stuff of legend. His voice can calm wild horses and his touch heal

Accident SurvivalDisabled ProtagonistContemporary FictionHopeful
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The Untelling

Tayari Jones · 324 pages

Aria Jackson lived through the car crash that killed her father and brother when she was nine. At 25 she begins to unearth secrets about family, friends, her past, and her altered reality in this journey through truth and forgiveness.

Accident SurvivalDeath of a SiblingContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

Ben Sherwood · 250 pages

The powerful bond between two brothers--one alive and the other killed in a terrible accident--unexpectedly transcends the barriers of life and death, and it is up to one enchanting woman to make their world right. Charlie St. Cloud's life has been haunted by the ghost of his younger brother, who was killed in a car wreck that Charlie miraculously survived.

Accident SurvivalDeath of a SiblingHopefulContemporary Fiction
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A Time to Dance

Padma Venkatraman · 321 pages

Accident SurvivalDisabled ProtagonistFemale LeadTeen Protagonist
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Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War‐Torn Syria in a Wheelchair

Nujeen Mustafa · 312 pages

This book tells the inspiring true story of a remarkable young hero: Nujeen Mustafa, a teenager born with cerebral palsy, whose harrowing journey from war-ravaged Syria to Germany in a wheelchair is a breathtaking tale of fortitude, grit, and hope that lends a face to the greatest humanitarian issue of our time, the Syrian refugee crisis.For millions around the globe, sixteen-year-old Nujeen Musta

Disabled ProtagonistWar ZoneHopefulFemale Lead
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Katy

Jacqueline Wilson

Katy's life changes in dramatic and unexpected ways after a serious accident. Inspired by the classic novel, What Katy Did, Jacqueline Wilson creates an irresistible modern version for the twenty-first-century. Fans of Hetty Feather and Tracy Beaker will fall in love with Katy and her family too.

Accident SurvivalDisabled ProtagonistFemale LeadMiddle Grade
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Cinder & Ella

Kelly Oram · 322 pages

Nach einem schweren Autounfall hat Ella ein Jahr voller OPs und Rehas hinter sich. Und nun muss sie auch noch zu ihrem Vater und dessen neuer Familie ziehen, die sie überhaupt nicht kennt. Ella will nur eins: ihr altes Leben zurück. Deshalb beschließt sie, sich nach langer Zeit wieder bei ihrem Chatfreund Cinder zu melden. Er ist der Einzige, der sie wirklich versteht, und obwohl sie ihn noch nie

Accident SurvivalDisabled ProtagonistFemale LeadYoung Adult
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All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr · 544 pages

From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are t

Disabled ProtagonistWar ZoneHopefulFemale Lead
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Mockingjay

Suzanne Collins · 408 pages

The last book in the Hunger Games Series. This book is filled with excitement and action regarding the ongoing war with the capital.

Death of a SiblingWar ZoneWar and Its AftermathFemale Lead
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Smile

Raina Telgemeier · 213 pages

Accident SurvivalContemporary FictionHopefulFemale Lead

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