Katy

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.

Left Neglected

Lisa Genova · 416 pages

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

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

How to walk away

Katherine Center · 302 pages

A Time to Dance

Padma Venkatraman · 321 pages

Shark Girl

Kelly Bingham · 288 pages

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.

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.

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

The War I Finally Won

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley · 400 pages

When Ada's clubfoot is surgically fixed at last, she knows for certain that she's not what her mother said she was--damaged, deranged, crippled mentally as well as physically. She's not a daughter anymore, either. What is she? World War II continues, and Ada and her brother, Jamie, are living with their loving legal guardian, Susan, in a borrowed cottage on the estate of the formidable Lady Thorto

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.

T4

Ann Clare LeZotte · 112 pages

When the Nazi party takes control of Germany, thirteen-year-old Paula, who is deaf, finds her world-as-she-knows-it turned upside down, as she is taken into hiding to protect her from the new law nicknamed T4.

When Madeline Was Young

Jane Hamilton · 312 pages

Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, is back in top form with a richly textured novel about a tragic accident and its effects on two generations of a family.When Aaron Maciver's beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers brain damage in a bike accident, she is left with the intellectual powers of a six-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second

The Crazy Man

Pamela Porter · 176 pages

Twelve-year-old Emaline Bitterman loves her home on the prairies. She loves helping her father in the fields and her dog, Prince. But farming in southern Saskatchewan in the mid 1960s is not easy. And then one day Emaline tries to stop Prince from chasing a hare into the path of the tractor her father is driving, and her leg is caught in the discer, leaving her with a permanent disability. In his

Out of My Mind

Sharon M. Draper · 305 pages

Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school, but no one knows it. Most people — her teachers and doctors included — don't think she's capable of learning, and until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-level alphabet lesso

Blabber Mouth

Morris Gleitzman · 128 pages

An Australian schoolgirl who is unable to speak is embarrassed by her father's outlandish dress and behavior.

Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

Dusti Bowling · 288 pages

New friends and a mystery help Aden, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.

Miss Spitfire

Sarah Miller · 240 pages

The One Thing

Marci Lyn Curtis · 332 pages

Maggie Sanders might be blind, but she won't invite anyone to her pity party. Ever since losing her sight six months ago, Maggie's rebellious streak has taken on a life of its own, culminating with an elaborate school prank. Maggie called it genius. The judge called it illegal. Now Maggie has a probation officer. But she isn't interested in rehabilitation, not when she's still mourning the loss of

Petey

Ben Mikaelsen · 280 pages

In 1922 Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized; sixty years later, still in the institution, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy of life.

Blink Once

Cylin Busby

West, a high school senior with everything going for him until an accident leaves him paralyzed, connects with Olivia, a patient in the hospital room next to his, who seems to understand his dreams and nightmares but who has a secret.

Falling from the Sky

Sarina Bowen · 266 pages

**She's the woman he doesn't remember. He's the man she can't forget.** Bad boy Hank “Hazardous” Lazarus used to have everything: a gorgeous girlfriend, a career as a freestyle snowboarder and a spot on the US Olympic team. Nine months ago, after a bad crash in the half pipe, he woke up in the hospital, unable to move his legs. Now he’s landed there again, but gravity is not the culprit. With h

What Katy Did

Susan Coolidge · 204 pages

Twelve-year-old Katie, living with her father, aunt, and five siblings in a small town in the 1870's, constantly makes and breaks resolutions to be a kind and generous person like her invalid Cousin Helen, but when she herself is bedridden after an accident, Katie finds her cousin's example very hard to follow.