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82) Bluish: a novel
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Dreenie feels both intrigued and frightened when she thinks about the girl nicknamed Bluish, whose leukemia is making her pale and causing her to use a wheelchair.
85) Cheshire moon
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
After the death of her best friend, a twelve-year-old hearing-impaired girl faces the choice of self-destruction through denial and withdrawal or self-acceptance in the real, hearing world.
90) Things that are
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Still adjusting to being blind, Alicia must outwit an invisible man who is putting her family and her boyfriend, who was once invisible himself, in danger.
91) Wintering well
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Will Ames and his sister Cassie go to stay with their sister in nearby Wiscasset, Maine, after a disabling accident ruins Will's plans for a career in farming.
92) On being Sarah
Author
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Even though life with cerebral palsy isn't easy for twelve-year-old Sarah, she manages with the help of her loving family and several new friends.
93) With the wind
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
When a boy who spends most of his time in a wheelchair rides a horse, he finds freedom, power, joy, and strength.
97) Never so green
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In Iowa in the 1970s, twelve-year-old Tex overcomes his self-consciousness about his deformed right hand to take baseball lessons from his stepfather and his tomboy stepsister, who harbors a dark secret.
100) The hickory chair
Author
Publisher
Arthur Levine Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A blind boy tells of his warm relationship with his grandmother and the gift she left for him after her death.