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TITLE: The Oracle Code
AUTHOR: Marieke Nijkamp WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Nij - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: After a gunshot leaves her paralyzed, Barbara Gordon enters the Arkham Center for Independence, where Gotham's teens undergo physical and mental rehabilitation. Now using a wheelchair, Barbara must adapt to a new normal, but she cannot shake the feeling that something is dangerously amiss. |
TITLE: I Have No Secrets
AUTHOR: Penny Joelson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Joe - THRILLER SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-old Jemma, who has severe cerebral palsy, must grapple with dark truths that only she knows, and is unable to communicate. |
TITLE: El Deafo
AUTHOR: Cece Bell WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bel - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A poignant graphic tale based on the creator's own experiences with hearing loss follows the adventures of young Cece, who develops "superpowers" to manage the challenges of making friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid that sometimes lets her hear things she shouldn't. |
TITLE: A Curse So Dark and Lonely
AUTHOR: Brigid Kemmerer WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Kem - FANTASY SUMMARY: Eighteen for the three hundred twenty-seventh time, Prince Rhen despairs of breaking the curse that turns him into a beast at the end of each day until feisty Harper, who has cerebral palsy, enters his life. |
TITLE: The Justice Project
AUTHOR: Michael Betcherman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bet - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Former high school football star Matt Barnes attempts to prove a convicted murderer's innocence while adjusting to a permanent injury. |
TITLE: A Silent Voice series
AUTHOR: Yoshitoki Oima WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Oim - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Shoya is a bully. When Shoko, a girl who can't hear, enters his elementary school class, she becomes his favorite target, and Shoya and his friends goad each other into devising new tortures for her. But the children's cruelty goes too far. Shoko is forced to leave the school, and Shoya end up shouldering all the blame. Six years later, the two meet again. Can Shoya make up his past mistakes, or is it too late? |
TITLE: Swallow Me Whole
AUTHOR: Nate Powell WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Pow - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Two stepsiblings cope with the mental illness that each of them suffers while dealing with high school and their grandmother's impending death. |
TITLE: Wild and Crooked
AUTHOR: Leah Thomas WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tho - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Kalyn, living under a pseudonym, and Gus, who has cerebral palsy, get caught in an uproar in Samsboro, Kentucky as the truth about the brutal murder of Gus's father by Kalyn's comes to light. |
TITLE: The Arsonist
AUTHOR: Stephanie Oakes WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Oak - MYSTERY SUMMARY: A tale told from three revolving viewpoints follows the experiences of a death row arsonist's daughter, who dreams of reuniting with a mother believed dead, and a Kuwaiti immigrant with epilepsy who is struggling to graduate, an unlikely duo that investigates the history-shaping 1989 murder of a beautiful, young East German resistance fighter. |
TITLE: Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
AUTHOR: Dusti Bowling WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bow - NOVELS SUMMARY: Thirteen-year-old Aven was born without arms and has trouble fitting in at her new school after her parents take a job at a dying western theme park, but she makes a new friend in a fellow disabled boy who helps her solve a mystery at the park. |
TITLE: Me Before You
AUTHOR: Jojo Moyes WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Moy - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Taking a job as an assistant to extreme sports enthusiast Will, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident, Louisa struggles with her employer's acerbic moods and learns of his shocking plans before demonstrating to him that life is still worth living. |
TITLE: The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
AUTHOR: Scott Stamback WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sta - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Living in isolation at a children's hospital in Belarus because of a terminal illness, an intellectually gifted 17-year-old falls in love with a charismatic and challenging new fellow patient whose life he resolves to save. |
TITLE: As Brave as You
AUTHOR: Jason Reynolds WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rey - NOVELS SUMMARY: When Genie and his older brother spend their summer in the country with their grandparents, he learns a secret about his grandfather and what it means to be brave. |
TITLE: Because You'll Never Meet Me
AUTHOR: Leah Thomas WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tho - NOVELS SUMMARY: Ollie, who has seizures when near electricity, lives in a backwoods cabin with his mother and rarely sees other people, and Moritz, born with no eyes and a heart defect that requires a pacemaker, is bullied at his high school, but when a physician who knows both suggests they begin corresponding, they form a strong bond that may get them through dark times. |
TITLE: All the Light We Cannot See
AUTHOR: Anthony Doerr WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Doe - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with their respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast. |
TITLE: The Beginning of Everything
AUTHOR: Robyn Schneider WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sch - NOVELS SUMMARY: Star athelete and prom king Ezra Faulkner's life is irreparably transformed by a tragic accident and the arrival of eccentric new girl Cassidy Thorpe. |
TITLE: Mockingbird
AUTHOR: Kathryn Erskine WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ers - NOVELS SUMMARY: Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father. |
TITLE: Girl, Stolen
AUTHOR: April Henry WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hen - MYSTERY SUMMARY: When an impulsive carjacking turns into a kidnapping, Griffin, a high school dropout, finds himself more in sympathy with his wealthy, blind victim, sixteen-year-old Cheyenne, than with his greedy father. |
TITLE: Now Is the Time for Running
AUTHOR: Michael Williams WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wil - NOVELS SUMMARY: When soldiers attack a small village in Zimbabwe, Deo goes on the run with Innocent, his older, mentally disabled brother, carrying little but a leather soccer ball filled with money, and after facing prejudice, poverty, and tragedy, it is in soccer that Deo finds renewed hope. |
TITLE: The Running Dream
AUTHOR: Wendelin Van Draanen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Van - NOVELS SUMMARY: Losing her leg in a car accident and fitted with a prosthetic that challenges her athletic ambitions, Jessica finds herself alienated from former friends and is tutored by a misfit girl she previously avoided. |
TITLE: Handle with Care
AUTHOR: Jodi Picoult WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Pic - NOVELS SUMMARY: Struggling to care for their daughter Willow, who was born with brittle bone disease, Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe add additional strain to their overburdened family life when they file a lawsuit against Charlotte's obstetrician. |
TITLE: Head Case
AUTHOR: Sarah Aronson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Aro - NOVELS SUMMARY: Forced to deal with his own paralysis and the death of two innocent victims as a result of his drunk driving, Frank must cope with his major injuries and the fact that he can no longer care for himself while facing the harsh reality that others are still demanding jail time for his criminal act. |
TITLE: Shark Girl
AUTHOR: Kelly L. Bingham WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bin - NOVELS SUMMARY: After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future. |
TITLE: Accidents of Nature
AUTHOR: Harriet McBryde Johnson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Joh - NOVELS SUMMARY: Set in the summer of 1970, a seventeen-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, who has never really known another disabled person, arrives at Camp Courage and learns to look at the world in a whole new way, which calls into question all of her old beliefs. |
TITLE: Rules
AUTHOR: Cynthia Lord WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lor - NOVELS SUMMARY: Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence, but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic. |
TITLE: Cruise Control
AUTHOR: Terry Trueman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tru - NOVELS SUMMARY: A talented basketball player struggles to deal with the helplessness and anger that come with having a brother rendered completely dysfunctional by severe cerebral palsy and a father who deserted the family. |
TITLE: So B. It
AUTHOR: Sarah Weeks WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wee - NOVELS SUMMARY: Living with her mentally disabled mother who only knows just over twenty words, young Heidi has learned to live in her special world until a new word is suddenly used and repeated by her mother; causing Heidi to think it might be a key to a secret past about which she knows so little. |
TITLE: Things Not Seen
AUTHOR: Andrew Clements WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cle - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it. |