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Author
Series
Maggie Valley series volume 1
Pub. Date
2005
Description
In the early 1960s, twelve-year-old songwriter Livy Two Weems dreams of seeing the world beyond the Maggie Valley, North Carolina, holler where she lives in poverty with her parents and eight brothers and sisters, but understands that she must put family first.
68) Helen Keller
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Explores the life and education of the deaf blind social activist.
69) My buddy
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Description
A young boy with muscular dystrophy tells how he is teamed up with a dog trained to do things for him that he can't do for himself.
71) Into the dark
Author
Series
Fear Street. Original series volume 49
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Blind Paulette Fox believes that her new boyfriend is innocent of committing a horrible crime despite the reports from her sighted friends who witnessed it.
Author
Pub. Date
c1988
Description
Examines the fundamental differences between written and spoken English and American Sign Language, the first language for more than 250,000 deaf people in North America. Includes instructions for using sign language in playing games, reading poetry, and singing songs.
Author
Series
Adventures of the Northwoods volume 9
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
When thirteen-year-old Kate, her stepbrother Anders, and their friend Erik go to visit Kate's blind second cousin in Red Jacket, Michigan, in 1907, they decide to try to find a long-lost map that will supposedly lead to a fortune in silver.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
The cicadas are humming, and it's so warm even the frogs are sweating the summer Gibby McGraw catches her big break. Lord knows she's due. Brain damaged after a tragic car accident that took both her parents, Gibby is now NQR (Not Quite Right), a real challenge for a fledgling newspaper reporter - especially when she stumbles upon the dead body of the next governor of Kentucky, Buster Malloy. Armed with her trusty blue spiral notebook, Gibby figures...
75) Mandy
Author
Pub. Date
[1991]
Description
Hearing-impaired Mandy risks going out into the scary night, during an impending storm, to look for her beloved grandmother's lost pin.
77) Helen Keller
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
A biography, told using excerpts from her own writings, of the woman who successfully dealt with her own disabilities while trying to better the lives of other deaf and blind people.
78) Harry Sue
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Although tough-talking Harry Sue would like to start a life of crime in order to be "sent up" and find her incarcerated mother, she must first protect the children at her neglectful grandmother's home day care center and befriend a paralyzed boy.