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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...
2) 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.
3) 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.
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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.
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.
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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.
7) 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.
8) The monument
Author
Pub. Date
©1991
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Rocky, self-conscious about the braces on her leg, has her life changed by the remarkable artist who comes to her small Kansas town to design a war memorial.
10) Time to roll
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Ellie reluctantly agrees to enter a beauty pageant with her best friend Coralee, the director seems determined to feature Ellie and her wheelchair, so she must find a way to participate on her own terms, all while saving her friendship and forming a better relationship with her divorced dad.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Effie Galanos' goals for her senior year include her navigating her way through her high school that is not really wheelchair-friendly, getting into the perfect college, and getting her crush Wilder to accompany her to the prom--but by spring she is beginning to see herself entirely differently.
Effie Galanos has her heart set on a college in NYC with a major in Mass Media & Society that will set her up perfectly for her dream job in digital media....
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...
13) The circus train
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Language
English
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Description
"When all is lost, how do you find the courage to keep moving forward? 1938. Lena Papadopoulos has never quite found her place within the circus, even as the daughter of the extraordinary headlining illusionist, Theo. Brilliant and curious, Lena--who uses a wheelchair after a childhood bout with polio--yearns for the real-world magic of science and medicine, her mind stronger than the limitations placed on her by society. Then her unconventional life...
14) Hazard
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Told in a series of reports to his therapist, Hazard is resentful about being forced into counseling after being suspended from his school football team for unsportsmanlike conduct, angry that his father has served four tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, angry that his father has lost a leg when an IED blew up--but as his therapy progresses he begins to process what has happened to him and his family, including his father's psychological trauma...
15) Stranded
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Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Koby, who has lost a foot in an accident, sees a chance to prove her self-reliance to her parents when she tries to rescue two stranded pilot whales near her home in the Florida Keys.
16) Always remember
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Language
English
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"Left unable to walk by a childhood illness, Lady Jennifer, sister of the Duke of Wilby, has grown up to make a happy place for herself in society. Outgoing and cheerful, she has many friends and enjoys the pleasures of high society--even if she cannot dance at balls or stroll in Hyde Park. She is blessed with a large, loving, and protective family. But she secretly dreams of marriage and children, and of walking--and dancing. When Ben Ellis comes...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Nick Freeman works hard as the star of the weekly karaoke night at his bar, hoping his singing talent...will distract from his cerebral palsy. But one night at the bar, watching a professional dancer light up the dance floor with her boyfriend, he realizes that entertaining strangers will never give him a fraction of the joy he sees in this woman's eyes. When Hayley Burke notices Nick's reaction to her dancing, she urges him to acknowledge his passion...
18) Nestlings
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ana and Reid needed a lucky break. The horrifically complicated birth of their first child has left Ana paralyzed, bitter, and struggling: with mobility, with her relationship with Reid, with resentment for her baby. That's about to change with the words any New Yorker would love to hear--affordable housing lottery. They've won an apartment in the Deptford, one of Manhattan's most revered buildings with beautiful vistas of Central Park and stunning...
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