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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

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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.

Disabled ProtagonistDisability RepresentationAccident SurvivalYoung Adult
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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.

Disabled ProtagonistAccident SurvivalDisability RepresentationContemporary Fiction
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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.

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A Time to Dance

Padma Venkatraman · 321 pages

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Left Neglected

Lisa Genova · 416 pages

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Accidents of Nature

Harriet McBryde Johnson · 251 pages

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.

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How to walk away

Katherine Center · 302 pages

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Shark Girl

Kelly Bingham · 288 pages

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Blindsided

Priscilla Cummings

Fourteen-year-old Natalie O'Reilly's world is turned upside down with the news that she will soon go blind. As if this weren't shocking enough, she is forced to face the fact that she must now attend a school for the blind to learn Braille and how to use a cane. As Natalie tackles the skills that will help her to survive in a sighted world, she inwardly hopes for a miracle that will save her sight

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Not If I See You First

Eric Lindstrom · 310 pages

Parker Grant doesn't need 20/20 vision to see right through you. That's why she created the Rules: Don't treat her any differently just because she's blind, andnever take advantage. There will be no second chances. Just ask Scott Kilpatrick, the boy who broke her heart.

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A Quiet Kind of Thunder

Sara Barnard · 363 pages

Steffi doesn't talk. Rhys can't hear. They understand each other perfectly. Love isn't always a lightning strike. Sometimes it's the rumbling roll of thunder ... Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life - she's been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He's deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she's ass

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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

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Secrets in the Fire

Henning Mankell · 176 pages

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Trigger

Susan Vaught · 306 pages

Teenager Jersey Hatch must work through his extensive brain damage to figure out why he decided to shoot himself.

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The Fault in Our Stars

John Green · 318 pages

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

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Golden Boy

Tara Sullivan · 384 pages

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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

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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.

Disabled ProtagonistDisability RepresentationAccident SurvivalFemale Lead
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Whisper

Chrissie Keighery · 249 pages

Fifteen-year-old Demi's world is shattered when she is left profoundly deaf by a sudden illness. Everything is different now, and Demi must learn to adapt to a new school, new friends and even learn a whole new language. Whisper is a coming-of-age tale, about discovering who you are and where you fit in life. About friendships and first love and, more of all, learning to love the person you are.

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Stuck in Neutral

Terry Trueman · 121 pages

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.

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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

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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.

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Blind Spot

Laura Ellen · 336 pages

"Tricia Farni was last seen alive the night she fought with Roswell Hart--a night Roz can't remember. Can Roz piece together the events of that night, despite the eye disease that robs her of most of her vision, in order to clear her name and find a murderer?"--

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