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1) Godkiller
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Gods are forbidden in the kingdom of Middren. Formed by human desires and fed by their worship, there are countless gods in the world--but after a great war, the new king outlawed them and now pays "godkillers" to destroy any who try to rise from the shadows. As a child, Kissen saw her family murdered by a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing them and enjoys it. But all this changes when Kissen is tasked with helping a young noble girl with...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of five disabled people living in the Pacific Northwest. They discuss microaggressions and implicit bias against people with disabiltiies, developing disability pride and identity, and how bias affects them every day. The film suggests how teachers, coworkers, health care workers, and families can become better allies to members of the largest minority group in the US.
3) Champions
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A former minor-league basketball coach is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with intellectual disabilities. He soon realizes that despite his doubts, together, this team can go further than they ever imagined.
4) Petey
Author
Pub. Date
2000, c1998
Language
English
Description
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.
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Sins Invalid witnesses a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists. Since 2006, its performances have explored themes of sexuality, beauty, and the disabled body, impacting thousands through live performance. Sins Invalid is as an entryway into the absurdly taboo topic of sexuality and disability, manifesting a new paradigm of disability justice.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
About 12 percent of the people your library could serve or hire have some type of disability in vision, learning, mobility, etc. People First demonstrates ways to break down both physical and attitudinal barriers without a large investment of time and money. Emphasis is on sensitivity, service and providing employment opportunities. Includes a discussion guide. --"Four stars, Editors Choice ... a superb production that focuses not only on the physical...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa Blake penned an op-ed for CNN Opinion. A conservative pundit caught wind of it, mentioning Blake's work in a YouTube video. What happened next is equal parts a searing view into society, how we collectively view and treat disabled people, and the making of an advocate. After a troll said that Blake should be banned from posting pictures of herself, she took to Twitter and defiantly posted three smiling selfies,...
Author
Series
Fantastic Freewheeler volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On his twelfth birthday, Drew Daniels receives a chunk of alien spacecraft, but when a Martian secretly comes to take the piece back he gives Drew an even more amazing gift in exchange: the power to absorb information through touch.
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1917 in a small Australian outback town and against the backdrop of a nation at war, Let the Balloon Go is a poignant story of a boy and his family. Young John Sumner has contracted polio and wears a leg brace. He also suffers mild epilepsy. While his brothers fight in the war overseas, John fights a much more personal battle – the battle for his own freedom. His over-anxious mother is afraid to let him play games and climb trees like other...
Author
Series
Aven Green volume 4
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old expert soccer player Aven Green learns to share the spotlight and be a good team player when her friend Sujata joins the team.
Author
Series
Fantastic Freewheeler volume 3
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Drew Daniels, aka the Fantastic Freewheeler, is paired up with unlikable Brent Baker who hijacks their science project to build a mega robot that goes haywire, so Freewheeler uses his superpowers to figure out how to stop the destructive construction.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a major transformation was occurring in many spheres of society: people with every sort of disability were increasingly being marginalized, excluded, and incarcerated. Disabled but still productive factory workers were being fired, and developmentally disabled individuals who had previously contributed domestic or agricultural labor in homes or on farms were being sent to institutions and poorhouses....
14) Regular Lives
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
We produced this film over twenty-five years ago, at a time, when most people with disabilities were excluded from education and often warehoused in such institutional settings as hospitals for the mentally ill, adult residential centers and large group homes. Allowing people with disabilities into regular school classrooms, job sites and other community activities is known as mainstreaming or inclusion. Regular Lives, portrays early, successful...
15) Wonderstruck
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
16) The Key of G
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Key of G is an award-winning documentary about disability, caregiving and interdependence. The film follows Gannet, a charismatic 22-year-old with physical and developmental disabilities, as he leaves his mother's home to share an apartment with a close-knit group of artists and musicians who support him, not only as paid caregivers, but also as friends. "Together they create a uniquely successful model of supported living, and a compelling alternative...
17) Cheer champs
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Leah practices gymnastics all the time and she would like to join the cheer squad, but she is also deaf and she struggles with the count of the routine in practice--but another girl, Monica, who can sign a little, offers to help her with the routine and together the girls come up with a plan so the team can nail the routine during competition.
18) Mimi and Dona
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What happens when love runs out of time? For 92-year-old Mimi, who has spent much of her life caring for 64-year-old Dona, her daughter with an intellectual disability, it means facing the inevitable -- the likelihood that she will not outlive her daughter and the need to find her a new home. Filmmaker Sophie Sartain, Mimi and Dona's granddaughter and niece, respectively, captures the quirky and deeply connected mother-daughter duo at their most poignant...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 2009 director Garrett Zevgetis googled the word "Beauty." He had been working on a number of darker-themed documentaries and was determined to find an uplifting story for a future project. The search returned a poignant Helen Keller quote that led Garrett to Perkins School for the Blind outside Boston, a renowned institution where a feature documentary had never before been made. He began volunteering at Perkins. On the last day of his scheduled...
20) If I could ride
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A young girl's dream is to ride horses, but she can't because of a disability. She meets Bridget, the reigning equestrian champion, who suffers an injury, and asks her to compete in her place at the next competition. As she goes through physical therapy and begins training, the two girls must come together to learn the importance of friendship, family, following your dreams, and never giving up.
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