Juvenile Fiction, Social Issues, Special Needs
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"What If I Had No Toes?"
a summer day adventure by Lynn Kastner
In this story, accompanied by richly detailed drawings, we come along on an interesting adventure with an eight-year-old boy. Over the course of a long summer day, he meets five physically challenged individuals. He asks the people in every ...
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Amberly and the Secret of the Fairy Warriors
by Gina Vallance
Twelve-year-old Amberly doesn’t quite fit in with all the other fairies in Whimsical Land. One of her wings is undersized and paralyzed and instead of flying she has to run and leap through the air with the help of a stick. It’s awkward, it’s no ...
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The Tidal Bracelet
The Marinesia Trilogy: Book Two by Megan E. Hotchkiss
No one was more surprised than 11-year-old Kaileigh Noble, when the vivid imaginings that she dreamt up to compensate for her lifelong blindness, suddenly became frighteningly real. But after stumbling upon the Seadrop Pendant, one of three magical ...
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A Beautiful Woodland, Swish Swish Fish Fish
A book about being on the Spectrum in more colourful ways than one by Cathi A.G.
Sometimes what we think in our thoughts, and what we say aloud to people are never the same thing. Thought bubbles are not speech bubbles right? Or, what we say aloud doesn’t always go as planned. Woodland is a teenage girl who has Autism, and her ...
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Willow's Words
by Jamie Lago and Terri Bose
Far beneath the stormy mountains, past the creaking bridge in a towering butterfly tree lives a graceful young girl named Willow who doesn’t speak but loves to dance. She dances alone beneath the sugarberry tree at recess. She dances in her very own ...
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Greyson’s Shoes
by Dr. Beverley A. Elliott
Greyson is a preschooler with Autism who views the world through a very different lens. He loves playing outside, but he hates having his shoes on. His dad wants to make sure he doesn’t step in something gross, but Greyson doesn’t understand this, ...
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Another Superhero Day
by Shaniece Vassell
Theo is a superhero—but, of course, only his mom knows that. Theo is also autistic. He is shy, unique, cool, and he doesn’t like to be touched. One day at the amusement park, he is waiting in line for the Ferris wheel with his mom when he meets ...
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A New Way To Play
by Candice O'Sullivan
Emily and her friends Sara and Anthony are playing a game of hide and seek. When it’s Emily’s turn to hide, she can’t find a spot that’s big enough to fit her wheelchair. Emily feels left out, but when she watches her pet, Chloe the chameleon, ...
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Where the Rhythm Takes Us
by Jill Ostrowski
Where the Rhythm Takes Us is a tale of two friends dreaming their way through the school day. Tapping on their wheelchair trays, they tell the story of their musical adventures. One day, they are in a marching band. Another, they are at the ...
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Let's Go
by Brenda E. Koch
What makes you unique? For some of us, part of what makes us unique is that we need help doing the sorts of things that other people do without thinking. Bobby is just like that. Sometimes, he wears a prosthetic to help him walk, and other times he ...
