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Things Not Seen

Andrew Clements · 251 pages

Bobby Phillips is an average fifteen-year-old-boy. Until the morning he wakes up and can't see himself in the mirror. Not blind, not dreaming-Bobby is just plain invisible. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to Bobby's new condition; even his dad the physicist can't figure it out. For Bobby that means no school, no friends, no life. He's a missing person. Then he meets Alicia. She's blin

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Daredevil Legends, Vol. 1: Yellow

Jeph Loeb · 144 pages

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One-Handed Catch

Mary Jane Auch · 264 pages

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Water Keep

J. Scott Savage

Found in the desert as a baby by monks who named him, thirteen-year-old Marcus, who has been confined to a wheelchair ever since he can remember, knows nothing of his background and endures the difficulties of his daily life in various foster homes and schools by dreaming of Farworld, a magical place whose pull seems to be getting increasingly stronger.

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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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Little Lame Prince

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · 144 pages

A young crippled prince must reclaim his kingdom from his evil uncle, with the help of a magic cape from his godmother.

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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

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Blabber Mouth

Morris Gleitzman · 128 pages

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

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The Door In The Wall

Marguerite de Angeli · 120 pages

From the back cover of Scholastic Inc. copy of this book: By Marguerite de Angeli, recipient of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, the Regina Medal, and the Newberry Medal. The bells clang above plague-ridden London as Robin lies helpless, cold, and hungry. The great house is empty, his father is fighting the Scots in the north, his mother is traveling with the Queen, and the servants have f

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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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Warrior Scarlet

Rosemary Sutcliff · 207 pages

In Bronze Age Britain, Drem must overcome the disability of a crippled arm in order to pass his tribe's test of manhood and become a warrior.

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Otherbound

Corinne Duyvis · 403 pages

A seventeen-year-old boy finds that every time he closes his eyes, he's drawn into the body of a mute servant girl from another world--a world that's growing increasingly more dangerous, and where many things are not as they seem. A 17-year-old boy finds that every time he closes his eyes, he is drawn into the body of a mute servant girl from another world, a world that is growing increasingly

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Daredevil, Vol. 2: Parts of a Hole (issues 9-15)

David W. Mack · 176 pages

Matt Murdoch falls in love with a tragic figure who has been programmed by the Kingpin to destroy his alter-ego, Daredevil. Worse yet, the assassin, Echo, can absorb every move and detail of Daredevil's fighting style to turn his own strengths against him. Collects **Daredevil (1998)** issues #9-15.

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El Deafo

Cece Bell · 248 pages

**El Deafo** is an amazing book! It is a wonderful story as it tells about a girl who loses her hearing one day and she has a whole new life waiting for her! She makes new friends and discovers new ways to do things like one time she was at her friends sleepover "she turned of her hearing aid on her" isn't that so cool!? Any age can read this book because it is a wonderful true story!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Sidekicked

John David Anderson · 373 pages

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The Boy on the Porch

Sharon Creech · 168 pages

"One day a young couple wakes to find a boy asleep on their porch. Unable to speak, the boy cannot explain his history. What kind of people would leave their child with strangers? All John and Marta know is that they have been chosen to care for this boy. As their connection to him grows, they embrace his exuberant spirit and talents. The three of them blossom into an unlikely family, but how long

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Deaf Child Crossing

Marlee Matlin · 200 pages

Despite the fact that Megan is deaf and Cindy can hear, the two girls become friends when Cindy moves into Megan's neighborhood, but when they go away to camp, their friendship is put to the test.

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School for Sidekicks

Kelly McCullough · 332 pages

"Superhero geek Evan survives a supervillian's death ray, and is sent to the Academy for Metahuman Operatives. Unfortunately, instead of fighting bad guys, Evan finds himself blacklisted, and on the wrong side of the school's director. Can he convince his semi-retired has-been mentor to become a real hero once again?"--

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Daredevil, Volume 2: West-Case Scenario

Mark Waid

Collects the adventures of Matt Murdock as he discovers how his mother became Sister Maggie, braves the wilds of Wakanda, and faces the Purple Children.

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