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Guide to Abbreviations and Locations:
CMC : Hale Library, Curriculum Materials Collection
Hale Stacks : Hale Library, Main Collection
Juv Lit : Hale Library, Juvenile Literature Collection
Media Collection : Hale Library, 2nd Floor, South
Microforms : Hale Library, Microforms Collection
Microforms are in order by document number provided. Ask at the Microforms
Desk to have the microform you need retrieved.
Ref : Hale Library, Social Sciences / Humanitites Reference Collection
Vet Med Animal Welfare : Veterinary Medical Library, Animal Welfare
Collection
Health Problems
Including: asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, leukemia,
rheumatoid arthritis
Learning Disabilities
Including: attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder & dyslexia
Mental Disabilities
ncluding: Down syndrome, autism, mental retardation, and brain damage
Mental Health and Illness
Including: emotion & mood disorders, depression, post-traumatic stress,
anxiety, schizophrenia, & obsessive-compulsive disorders
Physical Disabilities
Including: paralysis, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, and physical
disabilities caused by such things as diseases, health problems, and
accidents
Visual Limitations
Selected Books for Teachers and Parents
General Disabilities
Picture Books
Friends at School. Bunnett, Rochelle. 1995. Colorful photographs
and simple text show a group of young children with all abilities as
they spend a typical day at school.
Juv Lit: LC4019.2 .B85 1995
We Can Do It! Dwight, Laura. 1992. Five special children show
what they can do.
Juv Lit: HV888 .D95 1997
How it Feels to Fight for Your Life. Krementz, Jill. 1989.
Fourteen children tell how they battle pain, uncertainty, and the changes
brought about in their lives by serious illness. The author focuses
on the emotions and issues relating to quality of life.
Juv Lit: RJ380 .K74 1989
Someone Special, Just Like You. Brown, Tricia. 1982. A book
about very young children with disabilities.
Juv Lit: HV888 .B76 1995
Views from Our Shoes: Growing Up with a Brother or Sister with
Special Needs. Meyer, Donald. 1997. Children of various ages talk
about growing up with a brother or sister with special needs. Also includes
a glossary that describes many different syndromes and disorders, and
an appendix listing places to find more information and support groups.
Juv Lit: HV894 .V54 1997
Picture Books
Bear Spot Learns A Lot : Growing Up With Diabetes. 1981. Introduces
children to diabetes through the story of Bear Spot. Ranger Russ finds
a sick bear cub and takes her to Dr. Woods. With the help of Ranger
Russ and Dr. Woods, Bear Spot learns to control her diabetes and grows
up to be big and strong.
Juv Lit: PZ7 .B369 1997
Dotty the Dalmatian has Epilepsy. 1993. Introduces
children to epilesy through the story of Dottie the Dalmatian. When
Dottie finds out she has epilepsy, she is afraid she will not become
the firehouse mascot. That all changes when she helps a fireman save
a baby from a burning building.
Juv Lit: RJ496.E6 D67 1993
Even Little Kids Get Diabetes. Pirner, Connie White. 1991.
A young girl who has had diabetes since she was two years old describes
her adjustments to the disease.
Juv Lit: RJ420.D5 P57 1991
Juv Lit: PZ7 .I335 1997
Lee the Rabbit with Epilepsy. Moss, Deborah M. 1989. Lee is
diagnosed as having epilepsy, but medicine to control her seizures reduces
her worries and she learns she can still lead a normal life.
Juv Lit: RC372 .M68 1989
The Lion Who Had Asthma. London, Jonathan. 1992. Sean's nebulizer
mask and his imagination aid in his recovery following an asthma attack.
Includes information on childhood ashtma and how to control its symptoms.
Juv Lit: PZ7 .L8432 Li 1992
Edith Herself. Howard, Ellen. 1987. Orphaned by her mother's
death, Edith goes to live with her older sister and her dour husband
in their stern Christian farming household, where the strain of adjusting
seems to aggravate her epileptic seizures.
Juv Lit: PZ7.H83274 Ed 1987
Life's a Funny Proposition. Polikoff, Barbara Garland. 1992.
As Horatio tries to adjust to the death of his father from lung cancer,
O.P., Horatio's grandfather, mourns the loss of his dog Mollie.
Juv Lit: PZ7.P75284 Li 1992
Admission to the Feast. Beckman, Gunnel. 1972. A nineteen-year-old
girl, dying of leukemia, writes a long letter to a friend in an attempt
to stabilize her crumbling world.
Juv Lit: PZ7.B381745 Ad3
Between A Rock and A Hard Place. Carter, Alden R. 1995. Although
neither fifteen-year-old Mark Severson nor his diabetic cousin Randy
are looking forward to the canoe trip that is a family rite of passage,
they begin to enjoy themselves as they make their way through Minnesota's
lake country, until the trip becomes a fight for survival.
Juv Lit: PZ7.C2426 Be 1995
Friends Till the End. Strasser, Todd. 1988. The new student
in the senior class develops leukemia and affects the lives of his fellow
students in various ways. Juv Lit: PZ7.S899 Fr
Handful of Stars. Strasser, Todd. 1988. Julie, a busy high
school sophomore suddenly stricken with epileptic seizures, must learn
to live with her condition as the doctors attempt to control it through
medication.
Juv Lit: PZ7.G4398 Han
Hunter in the Dark. Hughes, Monica. 1982. A teenage boy goes
on a secret hunting trip alone in an effort to come to terms with his
leukemia and to test his strength and resourcefulness in battling the
elements and stalking the white-tailed deer that is his quarry.
Juv Lit: PZ7.H87364 Hu 1983
Invincible Summer. Ferris, Jean. 1987. Seventeen-year-old
Robin, in treatment for leukemia, falls in love with a boy who also
has the disease, and together they attempt to survive their ordeal.
Juv Lit: PZ7.F4174 In 1987
Eric. Lund, Doris. 1974. The story of Eric Lund, a boy with
Leukemia.
Juv Lit: RC643 .L86
Afraid to Ask. Fine, Judylaine. 1986. Describes the various
types of cancer and discusses, through case histories, the physical
and emotional problems involved in having or knowing someone who has
cancer.
Juv Lit: RC263 .F526 1986
How It Feels to Fight For Your Life. Krementz, Jill. 1989.
Fourteen children tell how they battle pain, uncertainty, and the changes
brought about in their lives by serious illness such as cancer, severe
burns, asthma, and kidney failure.
Juv Lit: RJ380 .K74 1989
MPL: J362.1 Krementz
I'm Tougher Than Asthma!. Carter, Alden R. 1996. A young girl
describes what it is like to live with asthma, how this condition affects
the body, some of the things that trigger an attack, and what can be
done to avoid problems.
Juv Lit: RC591 .C394 1996
Cancer. Schlessinger Video Productions, 1994. Cancer can occur
in people of any age. This program focuses on the cancer experiences
of several teens--when they were diagnosed, the treatments they received
and how they were affected both physically and mentally.
Media Collection: RC281.C4 C36 1994 VIDEO TAPE
Picture Books
Button in Her Ear. Litchfield, Ada. 1976. A little girl relates
how her hearing deficiency is detected and corrected with the use of
a hearing aid.
Juv Lit: RF300 .L57 1976
Dad and Me in the Morning. Lakin, Pat. 1994. A deaf
boy and his father share a special time as they watch the sun rise at
the beach.
Juv Lit: PZ7.L1586 Dad 1994
Hooray for Harold, Dealing with Hearing Loss 1997. Introduces
children to hearing loss through the story of Harold, a mouse who needs
hearing aids. At first Harold's friends tease him about his hearing
aids. But all that changes after Harold saves his friend, Chip, from
drowning because he could hear Chip struggling in the water.
Juv Lit: PZ7 .H7703 1997
I Can't Always Hear You. Zelonky, Jay. 1980/1993 When Kim,
a hearing impaired girl, begins going to a regular school after having
been in a special one, she finds that she isn't as different as she
had feared because everyone she meets has individual differences too.
Juv Lit: PZ7.Z398 Iac 1993
Moses Goes to a Concert. Millman, Isaac. 1998. Moses
and his schoolmates, all deaf, attend a concert where the orchestra's
percussionist is also deaf. Includes illustrations in sign language
and a page showing the manual alphabet.
Juv Lit: PZ7 .M63954 Mo 1998
A Place for Grace. Okimoto, Jean. 1993/95. With the help of
a hearing-impaired man, a little dog finally manages to graduate from
a training school for hearing dogs.
Vet Med Animal Welfare Coll: PZ7.O415 Pl 1995
Apple Is My Sign. Riskind, Mary. 1981. A 10-year-old boy returns
to his parents' apple farm for the holidays after his first term at
a school for the deaf in Philadelphia.
Juv Lit: PZ7.R493 Ap
The Blind Man, the Deaf Man, and the Donkey in Favorite Fairy
Tales Told in India. Haviland, Virginia . 1973.
Juv Lit: PZ8.H295 Favg
Can you Feel the Thunder? McElfrash, Lynn. 1999. Thirteen-year-old
Mic Parsons struggles with mixed feelings about his deaf and blind sister
while at the same time he makes his way through the turmoils of Junior
High.
Juv Lit:
Down in the Boondocks. Steele, Mary Q. writing as Wilson
Gage 1977. Relates in rhyme what happens when a thief decides to rob
a deaf farmer.
Juv Lit: PZ8.3.S8127 Do
Gideon, Ahoy! Mayne, William. 1989. Twelve-year-old Eva's chaotic
but cheerful family life in a small English town changes when Gideon,
her brain-damaged deaf older brother, gets a job opening bridges and
locks for the local canalboat.
Juv Lit: PZ7.M4736 Gi 1989
Juv Lit: PZ7 .A146 On 1994
Fiction--Young Adult
Dance to Still Music. Corcoran, Barbara. 1974. Deafened by
an illness, fourteen-year-old Margaret refuses to accept her condition
and runs away in fear that her mother's remarriage may mean she'll be
sent to a boarding school for the deaf.
Juv Lit: PZ7.C814 Dan
Anna's Silent World. Wolf, Bernard. 1994. Describes special
training and equipment used to help a deaf youngster talk, read and
write.
Juv Lit: HV2561.N7 W64
Cindy, A Hearing Ear Dog. Curtis, Patricia. 1981. Describes
the training of young dogs selected from pounds and humane shelters
to help deaf owners by alerting them to sounds they cannot hear and
providing companionship.
Juv Lit: HV2509 .C87
I Have A Sister-My Sister Is Deaf. Peterson, Jeanne. 1977.
A young girl describes how her deaf sister experiences everyday things.
Juv Lit: HV2392 .P48 1977
MPL: J362.42
I’m Deaf and It’s Okay. Aseltine, Lorraine. 1963. A young
boy describes the frustrations caused by his deafness and the encouragement
he receives from a deaf teenager that he can lead an active life.
Juv Lit: HV2392 .A84 1986
Koko's Kitten. Patterson, Francine. 1985. The real life experience
of Koko, a gorilla in California who uses sign language, with a young
kitten whom she loved and grieved over when it died.
Juv Lit: QL737.P96 P38 1985
Lisa and Her Soundless World. Levine, Edna. 1974. A little
girl with impaired hearing learns through various methods to use and
understand speech.
Juv Lit: HV2380 .L39
Play It By Sign: Games In Sign Language. Kirchner, Suzie Linton.
1974. This volume contains a collection of games to play, which are
fun and at the same time, provide additional practice in signing and
fingerspelling.
Hale Stacks: HV2474 .K46
Handmade Alphabet. Rankin, Laurie. 1991. Presents
the handshape for each letter of the American manual alphabet accompanied
by an object whose name begins with that letter.
Juv Lit: HV2480 .R36 1991
Handtalk Birthday. Charlip, Remy. 1987. Words and
sign language depict friends helping a deaf woman celebrate her birthday.
Juv Lit: PZ7.C3812 Han 1987
My First Book of Sign. Baker, Pamerla. 1986.
Juv Lit: HV2476 .B35 1986
Play It By Sign: Games In Sign Language. Kirchner,
Suzie Linton. 1974. This volume contains a collection of games to play,
which are fun and at the same time, provide additional practice in signing
and fingerspelling.
Hale Stacks: HV2474 .K46
Signs For Me : Basic Sign Vocabulary for Children. Bahan,
Benjamin J. 1990. Presents the American Sign Language handshapes for
nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, numbers, and letters.
CMC: HV2476 .B34 1990
Where's Spot?. Hill, Eric. 1987. A mother dog finds
eight other animals hiding around the house before finding her lost
puppy. Flaps conceal the animals and the text is accompanied by diagrams
showing how to form the Signed English signs for each word of the text.
CMC: HV2474 .K55 1984
A Word in the Hand. Kitterman, Jane. 1984.
CMC: HV2474 .K55 1984
Picture Books
Eukee the Jumpy Jumpy Elephant. Corman, Clifford
L. 1995. A young elephant who feels jumpy inside and has trouble paying
attention visits Dr. Tusk and learns about ADD.
Juv Lit: PZ7.C81632 Eu 1995
Hip-Hop, The Hyperactive Hippo. 1996. Hip-Hop the hippopotamus
is inattentive and hyperactive until the doctor diagnoses him with ADHD.
Juv Lit: RJ504.H9 H57 1996
Shelley the Hyperactive Turtle. Moss, Deborah M. 1989. After
his mother takes him to the doctor, Shelley the turtle begins to understand
why he feels so jumpy and wiggly inside that he can't stay still.
Juv Lit: RJ506.H9 M67 1989
Thank You, Mr. Falker. Polacco, Patricia. 1998. At first,
Trisha loves school, but her difficulty learning to read makes her feel
dumb, until, in the fifth grade, a new teacher helps her understand
and overcome her learning disability.
Juv Lit: PZ7 .P75186 Tf 1998
Do Bananas Chew Gum? Gilson, Jamie. 1980. Sam can memorize
and do math well, but he has learning disabilities in reading and writing.
With the help of a teacher-specialist, he learns to emphasize listening
to information rather than reading it, and gains confidence in the abilities
he does have.
Juv Lit: PZ7.G4385 Do 1997
Eagle Eyes. Gehret, Jeanne. 1996. Ben, a boy who shows common
signs of an Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), seems to find himself
struggling in situations that require him to concentrate and to control
his behavior.
Juv Lit: RJ506.H9 G44 1996
First Star I See. Caffrey, Jaye Andras. 1997. Trying
to win a school writing contest helps bright, imaginative Paige Bradley
realize that fixing her "focusing knob" will compensate for her ADD.
Juv Lit: PZ7 .C1177 Ri 1997
The Flunking of Joshua T. Bates. Shreve, Susan. 1984. Joshua
is upset when he learns he has to repeat third grade. He is fortunate
to have a teacher who helps him with his reading problem and he is able
to catch up and pass into fourth grade.
Juv Lit: PZ7.S55915 Jo 1997
I'm Somebody Too . Gehret, Jeanne. 1992. Emily presents
the other child's viewpoint in a family in which one child, her brother,
has attention deficit disorder (ADD).
Juv Lit: PZ7.G25935 Iam 1992
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key. Gantos, Jack. 1999. To the constant
disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying
attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription meds
wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired.
Juv Lit: PZ7.G15334 Jo 1999
Josh, A Boy With Dyslexia. Janover, Caroline. 1988. Josh struggles
to live down the stigma of his learning disability, dyslexia, and receive
both respect and friendship from his peers. Includes information on
the characteristics of dyslexia and a list of organizations that deal
with learning disabilities.
Juv Lit: PZ7.J2445 Jo 1988
Kelly's Creek. Smith, Doris Buchanan. 1975. Nine-year-old
Kelly cannot ride a bicycle, catch a football, or write his own name.
His learning disability makes it hard for his eyes, hands, and brain
to coordinate, but his family, friends, and teacher think he is not
trying. He plays by the creek and is finally able to share what he has
learned there with someone who cares.
Juv Lit: PZ7.S64474 Ke
Lost in the Forest. Aaseng, Nathan. 1996. When five-year-old
Max, who suffers from attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, runs
away from Bible camp, the children who search for him gain unexpected
understandings.
Juv Lit: PZ7.A13 Lo 1996
M.E. and Morton. Cassedy, Sylvia. 1987. Eleven-year-old Mary
Ella, ashamed that her older brother Morton is a slow learner and longing
for a friend of her own, is astonished when the flamboyant new girl
on the block picks Morton for a friend.
Juv Lit: PZ7.C268515 Maae 1987
Me and Einstein. Blue, Rose. 1979. Having tried for years
to hide the fact that he can't read, a nine-year-old boy finally discovers
the reason for his problem. Juv Lit: PZ7.B6248 Me
Mitch and Amy. Cleary, Beverly. 1967. Nine-year-old twins
have learning problems in school, which are eventually resolved.
Juv Lit: PZ7.C5792 Mi 1991
My Name is Brain Brian. Betancourt, Jeanne. 1993. Although
he is helped by his new sixth grade teacher after being diagnosed as
dyslexic, Brian still has some problems with school and with people
he thought were his friends.
Juv Lit: PZ7.B46626 My 1993
Pay Attention Slosh. Smith, Mark. 1997. Eight-year-old
Josh hates being unable to concentrate or control himself, but with
the help of his parents, his teacher, and a doctor, he learns to deal
with his condition, known as ADHD or attention-deficit hyperactivity
disorder.
Juv Lit: PZ7 .S65496 Pay 1997
Secrets Aren't (Always) for Keeps. Aiello, Barbara. 1988.
After successfully hiding her learning disability problems from her
Australian pen pal, Jennifer becomes very apprehensive when her friend
announces she is coming for a visit and wants to spend a day at her
school.
Juv Lit: PZ7 .A26924 Se 1988
Zipper: The Kid with ADHD. Janover, Caroline. 1997. Zack,
a fifth grader who has attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, has
trouble controlling himself until a retired jazz musician who believes
in him gives him the motivation to start trying to do better.
Juv Lit: PZ7.J2445 Zi 1997
Freak the Mighty. Philbrick, W. R. 1993. At the beginning
of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose
birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find
that when they combine forces they make a powerful team.
Juv Lit: PZ7.P52112 Fr 1993
Just One Friend. Hall, Lynn. 1985. Just as sixteen-year-old
learning-disabled Doreen is about to be mainstreamed into a regular
school, the loss of her best friend to another girl drives her to a
desperate act.
Juv Lit: PZ7.H1458 Ju 1985
Probably Still Nick Swansen. Wolff, Virginia Euwer. 1988.
Sixteen-year-old learning-disabled Nick struggles to endure a life in
which the other kids make fun of him, he has to take special classes,
his date for the prom makes an excuse not to go with him, and he is
haunted by the memory of his older sister who drowned while he was watching.
Juv Lit: PZ7.W82129 Pr 1988
All Kinds Of Minds. Levine, Melvin D. 1993. A young student's
book about learning abilities and learning disorders.
CMC: LC4704.73 .L48 1993
Lessons Learned. Fullen, Dave. 1993. Students with learning
disabilities share what they've discovered about life and learning.
Juv Lit: LC4704 .L483 1993
Living with Learning Disabilities: a Guide for Students. Hall,
David. 1993. Describes various learning disabilities, such as attention
deficit disorder, fine motor problems, and difficulties with visual
information, and offers positive advice on how to cope.
Juv Lit: LC4705 .H35 1993
Putting on the Brakes. Quinn, Patricia O. 1991. A young people's
guide to understanding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Juv Lit: RJ496.A86 Q56 1991
Sometimes I Drive My Mom Crazy, But I Know She's Crazy About Me.
Shapiro, Lawrence E. 1995. A self-esteem book for ADHD children.
Juv Lit: RJ506.H9 S53 1995
Sometimes I Get All Scribbly. Neuville, Maureen Bissen. 1995.
About learning to live with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Juv Lit: RJ506.H9 N48 1995
Trouble With School. Dunn, Kathryn Boesel. 1993. A family
story about learning disabilities.
Juv Lit: LC4705 .D86 1993
When Learning is Tough. Roby, Cynthia. 1994. Children describe
their learning disabilities, talents, learning techniques, and misconceptions
associated with learning disabilities.
Juv Lit: LC4705 .R63 1994
Picture Books
Andy and His Yellow Frisbee. Thompson, Mary. 1996. The new
girl at school tries to befriend Andy, an autistic boy who spends every
recess by himself, spinning a yellow frisbee under the watchful eye
of his older sister.
Juv Lit: PZ7.T37168 An 1996
Be Good to Eddie Lee. Fleming, Virginia M. 1993. Although
Christy considered him a pest, when Eddie Lee, a boy with Down Syndrome,
follows her into the woods, he shares several special discoveries with
her.
Juv Lit: PZ7.F626 Be 1993
Big Brother Dustin. Carter, Alden. 1997. A boy with Down Syndrome
helps his parents and grandparents get ready for the birth of his baby
sister and chooses the perfect name for her.
Juv Lit: PZ7.C2426 Bi 1997
Joey and Sam. Katz, Illana. 1993. Although it is sometimes
hard to have a younger brother like Sam who is autistic, Joey is proud
when Sam's special class performs at a school assembly.
Juv Lit: PZ7.K15744 Jo 1993
My Friend Jacob. Clifton, Lucille. 1980. A young boy tells
about Jacob, who, though older and mentally slower, helps him a lot
and is his very best friend. Juv Lit: PZ7.C6224 Myk 1980
One Little Girl. Fassler, Joan. 1980. While Laurie was slow
at doing some things, she was fast at others, and when the grown-ups
around her finally realized that fact Laurie was at last happy to be
herself.
Juv Lit: PZ7.F26 On
Thumbs Up, Rico!. Testa, Maria. 1994. In three separate stories,
a boy with Down syndrome makes a new friend, helps his sister with a
difficult decision, and finally draws a picture he likes.
Juv Lit: PZ7.T2877 Th 1994
Veronica's First Year. Rheingrover, Jean Sasso. 1996. Nine-year-old
Nathan helps his baby sister, who has Down Syndrome, into the family
and eagerly anticipates the day when she will be able to ride his tricycle.
Juv Lit: PZ7.R33785 Ve 1996
Where's Chimpy? Rabe, Berniece. 1988. Text and photographs
show Misty, a little girl with Down syndrome, and her father reviewing
her day's activities in their search for her stuffed monkey.
Juv Lit: PZ7.R105 Wg 1988
Crazy Lady!. Conly, Jane. 1993. As he tries to come to terms
with his mother's death, Vernon finds solace in his growing relationship
with the neighborhood outcasts, an alcoholic and her retarded son.
Juv Lit: PZ7.C761846 Cr 1993
Gideon, Ahoy! Mayne, William. 1989. Twelve-year-old Eva's chaotic
but cheerful family life in a small English town changes when Gideon,
her brain-damaged, deaf older brother, gets a job opening bridges and
locks for the local canalboat.
Juv Lit: PZ7.M4736 Gi 1989
Jip: His Story. Paterson, Katherine. 1996. While living on
a Vermont poor farm in 1855 - 1856, Jip learns about his identity. He
takes charge of two of the farm's residents, developmentally delayed
Sheldon, and mentally ill Put.
Juv Lit: PZ7.P273 Ji 1996
Lester's Turn . Slepian, Jan. 1981. When 16-year-old Lester,
himself a victim of cerebral palsy, takes his retarded friend from the
hospital for the weekend, tragedy ensues, forcing Lester to examine
the real meaning of their relationship.
Juv Lit: PZ7.S6318 Le
Loving Ben. Laird, Elizabeth. 1989. Anne's teen years bring
maturity and fulfillment as she experiences the birth and death of a
loved and loving hydrocephalic brother, changing ideas about character
in both boyfriends and girlfriends, and working with a child with Down
syndrome.
Juv Lit: PZ7.L1579 Lo 1989
The Man Who Loved Clowns. Wood, June. 1992. Thirteen-year-old
Delrite, whose unhappy life has caused her to hide from the world, loves
her uncle Punky but sometimes feels ashamed of his behavior because
he has Down syndrome.
Juv Lit: PZ7.W84965 Man 1995
My Louisiana Sky. Holt, Kimberly Willis. 1997. Growing up
in Saitter, Louisiana in the 1950's, a twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles
with her feelings about her stern but loving grandmother, her mentally
slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse.
Juv Lit: PZ7.H74023 My 1998
The Mystery of the Fat Cat. Bonham, Frank. 1968. A wealthy
lady willed her estate to a boy's club when her cat would die. Ralphie,
a mentally-retarded boy is portrayed functioning in the club and helping
to solve the mystery of the long-lived cat.
Juv Lit: PZ7.B6415 Mxp
Please Don't Say Hello. Gold, Phyliss. 1975. With the support
and love of his family, and through them the neighborhood children,
a nine-year-old autistic boy is able to emerge from his shell.
Juv Lit: PZ7.G5633 Pl
Secret Dreamer, Secret Dreams. Heide, Florence Parry. 1978.
Reveals the inner world of a 13-year-old mentally handicapped girl.
Juv Lit: PZ7.H36 Se
Stay Away From Simon! Carrick, Carol. 1985. Lucy and her younger
brother examine their feelings about a mentally handicapped boy they
both fear when he follows them home one snowy day.
Juv Lit: PZ7.C2344 St 1985
The Summer of the Swans. Byars, Betsy. 1970. Fourteen-year-old
Sara perceives life differently after the panic of searching for her
lost retarded younger brother. The story describes a warm sibling relationship
with humor.
Juv Lit: PZ7.B98396 Su
The Alfred Summer. Slepian, Janice. 1980. Four preteen outcasts,
two of them handicapped, learn lessons in courage and perseverance when
they join forces to build a boat.
Juv Lit: PZ7.S6318 Al
But I'm Ready To Go. Albert, Louise. 1976. A slightly retarded
fifteen-year-old girl tries to become a singer in order to win approval
from her family and friends. Juv Lit: Z7.A3213 Bu
The Devil Hole. Spence, Eleanor. 1977. The birth of an autistic
child drastically changes the lives of the once-happy members of an
Australian family.
Juv Lit: PZ7.S7475 De3
It's Too Late for Sorry. Hanlon, Emily. 1978. Fifteen-year-old
Kenny's involvement with the mentally retarded youth on his block brings
out the best and the worst in him.
Juv Lit: PZ7.H1964 It
What About Me? Rodowsky, Colby F. 1976. Dorrie must learn
to deal with her feelings of frustration, anger, and resentment as her
life seems constantly affected by the fact that her younger brother
has Down syndrome.
Juv Lit: PZ7.R6185 Wh
Ghost Girl. Hayden, Torey L. 1991. The story of a child in
peril and the teacher who saved her.
Juv Lit: BF1548 .H39 1991
Let Me Hear Your Voice. Maurice, Catherine. 1993. The true
story of one family's triumph over autism.
Stacks: RJ506.A9 M39 1994
One Child. Hayden, Torey L. 1980/81. An abused child with
autism is helped by her teacher.
Juv Lit: RJ499 .H398
We Can Do It! Dwight, Laura. 1997. Depicts children living
with spina bifida, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, or blindness with
the help of family and friends. Juv Lit: HV888 .D95 1997
Mental Health
and Illness
Fiction--Children
The Accident. Carrick, Carol. 1976. After his dog is hit by
a truck and killed, Christopher must deal with his own feelings of depression
and guilt.
Juv Lit: PZ7.C2344 Ac 1976
The Crossing. Paulsen, Gary. 1987. Thirteen-year-old Manny,
a street kid fighting for survival in a Mexican border town, develops
a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier
who decides to help him get across the border.
Juv Lit: PZ7.P2843 Cr 1987
Don't Play Dead Before You Have To. Wojciechowska, Maia. 1970.
Fourteen-year-old Byron and the disturbed boy he is baby sitting form
a close friendship that helps them through several crises in the following
four years.
Juv Lit: PZ7.R617 Do
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key. Gantos, Jack. 1999. To the constant
disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying
attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription meds
wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired.
Juv Lit: PZ7.G15334 Jo 1999
The Keeper. Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. 1986. Junior high school
student Nick must face the fact that his father is plunging fast into
serious mental illness.
Juv Lit: PZ7.N24 Ke 1986
Making Up Megaboy. Walter, Virginia. 1998. When thirteen-year-old
Robbie shoots an old man in a liquor store, everyone who knows the quiet,
withdrawn youth struggles to understand this act of seemingly random
violence.
Juv Lit: PZ7.W17126 Mak 1998
The Moves Make the Man. Brooks, Bruce. 1984. A Black boy and
an emotionally troubled white boy in North Carolina form a precarious
friendship
. Juv Lit: PZ7.B7913 Mo 1984
Offbeat Friends. Donnelly, Elfie. 1982. A Viennese grade-schooler
catches her parents off-guard when she smuggles an elderly mental patient
whom she met in the park into their home.
Juv Lit: PZ7.D7193 Of 1982
One More Flight. Bunting, Eve. 1976. Unable to adjust to foster
homes and the Residential Center, an emotionally disturbed boy runs
away and is befriended by a man who cares for wounded birds.
Juv Lit: PZ7.B91527 Op
Pictures of Adam. Levoy, Myron. 1986. Fourteen-year-old Lisa,
a talented amateur photographer, becomes involved in a bittersweet relationship
with an emotionally disturbed boy when she does a photo essay on his
run-down home up in the hills.
Juv Lit: PZ7.L5825 Pi 1986
The Planet of Junior Brown. Hamilton, Virginia. 1971. Junior
Brown contends with isolation and a neurotic, sometimes psychotic, mother
who discourages his musical and artistic talents. Obese, depressed,
and unable to go to school, he is helped by a friend who aids runaways.
Juv Lit: PZ7.H1828 Pl
Polly's Magic Games. Foster, Constance H. 1994. A child's
view of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Juv Lit: RJ506.O25 F68 1994
Second Star To The Right. Hautzig, Deborah. 1981. As 14-year-old
Leslie begins to shed the weight she feels makes her imperfect, she
finds it increasingly difficult to reach out for the psychological help
she knows she needs.
Juv Lit: PZ7.H2888 Se
So Much To Tell You. Marsden, John. 1988. Sent to a hospital
by her mother, Marina, a disfigured Australian girl who refuses to speak,
reveals her thoughts and feelings in a diary.
Juv Lit: PZ7.M35145 So 1989
Soldier's Heart: A Novel of the Civil War. Paulsen, Gary.
1998. Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart
after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil
War combat.
Juv Lit: PZ7.P2843 So 1998
Fiction--Young Adult
Acquainted With The Night. Hotze, Sollace. 1992. During a
summer on a Maine island, seventeen-year-old Molly and her older cousin
become very close, as she helps him deal with his father's suicide and
his experiences in the Vietnam War, and as together they share encounters
with a troubled ghost.
Juv Lit: PZ7.H8114 Ac 1992
Amazing Gracie. Cannon, A. E. 1991. A high school girl has
a lot to deal with in her sophomore year when her beloved mother who
is a victim of depression remarries, a new brother is acquired, and
the family moves to Salt Lake City.
Juv Lit: PZ7.C17135 Am 1991
Ash: A Novel. Fraustino, Lisa Rowe. 1995. Eighteen-year-old
Ash's change of behavior and its disruptive effects on his family are
recounted by younger brother Wes.
Juv Lit: PZ7.F8655 As 1995
Ask Me Something Easy. Honeycutt, Natalie. 1991. After her
father leaves the family, Addie must cope with her increasingly hostile,
distant mother, perfect older sister, and sensitive younger twin sisters.
Juv Lit: PZ7.H7467 As 1991
The Bigger Book of Lydia . Willey, Margaret. 1983. Still very
small at fifteen, Lydia becomes self-conscious about her size and develops
an obsession with growing, until she meets Michelle, who has anorexia
nervosa and wants only to be smaller.
Juv Lit: PZ7.W65548 Bi 1983
Chartbreaker. Cross, Gillian. 1987. To escape a depressed
mother and her mother's hostile boyfriend, angry young Janis joins the
rock group Kelp and develops her own strength of character while fighting
to survive in the contemporary music world.
Juv Lit: PZ7.C88253 Ch 1987
The Crazy Horse Electric Game. Crutcher, Chris. 1987. A high
school athlete, frustrated at being handicapped after an accident, runs
away from home and is helped back to mental and physical health by a
black benefactor and the people in a special school where he enrolls.
Juv Lit: PZ7.C89 Cr 1987
Dakota Dream. Bennett, James W. 1994. After being shuttled
between foster homes and institutions for most of his life, fifteen-year-old
Floyd Rayfield escapes from a mental institution to a Sioux reservation,
desperately seeking a family and a home.
Juv Lit: PZ7.B43989 Dak 1994
Detour for Emmy. Reynolds, Marilyn. 1993. Emmy, whose future
had once looked so bright, struggles to overcome the isolation and depression
brought about by being a teen mother who gets little support from her
family or the father of her child.
Juv Lit: PZ7.R3373 De 1993
Don't Blame the Music. Cooney, Caroline B. 1986. Seventeen-year-old
Susan looks forward eagerly to her senior year in high school but finds
her comfortable assumptions and optimistic expectations of life and
people shattered by the return home of her older sister, a failed rock
singer with a bitter grudge against the family. Juv Lit: PZ7.C7834 Do
1986
Family of Strangers. Pfeffer, Susan Beth. 1992. Through letters
and essays, emotionally disturbed sixteen-year-old Abby chronicles her
growing desperation in a family consisting of parents who seem devoid
of love, one older sister bent on self-destruction, and another older
sister who has always seemed perfect.
Juv Lit: PZ7.P44855 Fam 1992
The Flight of the Cassowary. LeVert, John. 1986. Sixteen-year-old
John finds life in high school and at home increasingly distorted when
he becomes obsessed with the parallels between people and animals and
starts responding to everything around him according to the laws of
nature.
Juv Lit: PZ7.L5747 Fl 1986
Gulf. Westall, Robert. 1992. Tom Higgins, a British schoolboy
during the Persian Gulf War, narrates his younger brother's struggle
with an apparent mental illness or mystery of nature which drives the
child to assume the role of an Iraqi.
Juv Lit: PZ7.W51953 Gu 1996
The Hanged Man. Block, Francesca Lia. 1994. Having stopped
eating after the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Laurel feels
herself losing control of her life in the hot, magical world of Los
Angeles.
Juv Lit: PZ7 .B61945 Han 1994
Humming Whispers. Johnson, Angela. 1995. Sophy fears that
she will become like her older sister Nicole who has schizophrenia.
Juv Lit: PZ7.J629 Hu 1995
I Can Hear the Mourning Dove. Bennett, James. 1990. Gifted
but severly mentally disturbed, sixteen-year-old Grace moves back and
forth between school and hospital, where she receives unexpected support
from an antisocial delinquent named Luke.
Juv Lit: PZ7.B43989 Iab 1990
The Keeper. Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. 1986. Junior high school
student Nick must face the fact that his father is plunging fast into
serious mental illness.
Juv Lit: PZ7.N24 Ke 1986
Kissing Doorknobs. Hesser, Terry Spencer. 1998. Fourteen-year-old
Tara describes how her increasingly strange compulsions begin to take
over her life and affect her relationships with her family and friends.
Juv Lit: PZ7.H4367 Ki 1998
The Language of Goldfish. Oneal Zibby. 1980. Thirteen-year-old
Carrie is confused and anxious about growing up and life changes. After
her unusual behavior and a suicide attempt, she is able to work with
a psychiatrist to learn to understand and manage her feelings better.
Juv Lit: PZ7.O552 Lan 1980
Mac. MacLean, John. 1987. Fifteen-year-old Mac's personality
undergoes a sudden change as he tries to come to terms with the trauma
of being sexually abused by a doctor during a physical examination.
Juv Lit: PZ7.M22434 Mac 1987
My Father, The Nutcase. Caseley, Judith. 1992. When her father
becomes clinically depressed, fifteen-year-old Zoe worries that his
illness will engulf the entire family.
Juv Lit: PZ7.C2677 Myf 1992
The Night Birds. Haugen, Tormod. 1982. Jake struggles to come
to grip with terrors real and imagined, including his father's bouts
of depression and his own nightmares.
Juv Lit: PZ7.H2866 Ni 1982
Notes From Another Life. Bridgers, Sue Ellen. 1981. Tom Jackson's
mental illness is difficult for his entire family, but particularly
so for his sixteen-year-old son Kevin who wonders if he has the same
affliction..
Juv Lit: PZ7.B7615 No 1981
Remembering the Good Times. Peck, Richard. 1985. Trav, Kate,
and Buck make up a trio during their freshman year in high school, but
their special friendship may not be enough to save Trav as he pressures
himself relentlessly to succeed, in his own eyes as well as in the eyes
of his parents and the world.
Juv Lit: PZ7.P338 Rd 1985
The Road Home. White, Ellen Emerson. 1995. Rebecca, a young
nurse stationed in Vietnam during the war, must come to grips with her
wartime experiences once she returns home to the United States.
Juv Lit: PZ7.W58274 Rn 1995
Saving Lenny. Willey, Margaret. 1990. Jesse and Lenny fall
in love. She's sure she can help him overcome his chronic depression,
but she finally realizes her love isn't enough to help him.
Juv Lit: PS3573.I44724 .S28 1990
The Shell Lady's Daughter. Adler, C. S. 1983. When fourteen-year-old
Kelly is sent off to Florida after her mother’s nervous breakdown to
stay with her rigid grandparents, she learns the meaning of love and
support.
Juv Lit: PZ7.A26145 Sh 1983
The Skating Rink. Lee, Mildred. 1969. Seeing his Mother drown
when he was three gave Tuck a stammer and some emotional problems which
the Dagleys, with their encouragement and skating instructions, are
helping him overcome.
Juv Lit: PZ7.L5143 Sk
Uncle Vampire. Grant, Cynthia D. 1993. Sixteen-year-old Caroline
and her twin sister Honey know for sure that their Uncle Toddy is a
vampire who comes at night to drink their blood but fear of the consequences
makes them keep their terrible secret.
Juv Lit: PZ7.G76672 Un 1993
What About Me? Rodowsky, Colby F. 1976. Dorrie must learn
to deal with her feelings of frustration, anger, and resentment as her
life seems constantly affected by the fact that her younger brother
has Down's syndrome.
Juv Lit: PZ7.R6185 Wh
The Wind Blows Backward. Hahn, Mary Downing. 1993. Although
they share a love of poetry and problems with their parents, a shy high
school senior's attraction to a popular classmate is tempered by her
fear of his moody, self-destructive side.
Juv Lit: PZ7.H1256 Wi 1993
The Woman In The Wall. Kindl, Patrice. 1993. Because she suffers
from extreme shyness, Anna retreats into herself and her secret rooms
where she attempts to remain hidden from the outside world.
Juv Lit: PZ7.K5665 Wo 1997
Don't Pop Your Cork on Mondays! : The Children's Anti-Stress Book.
Moser, Adolph. 1988. Explores the causes and effects of stress
and offers practical approaches and techniques for dealing with stress
in daily life.
Juv Lit: BF575.S75 M68 1988
Hanging In. Greenberg, Harvey. 1982. Describes common emotional
problems of adolescence which can be helped by psychotherpay and gives
practical advice on getting the kind of professional help that is needed.
Juv Lit: RJ 503 .G73 1982
Nothing to Be Ashamed Of. Dinner, Sherry. 1989. Psychologist
sherry Dinner describes the symptoms and treatment of the major mental
illnesses. She helps family members understand and put it in perspective
so they can get on with their own lives.
Juv Lit: RC460.2 .D56 1989
Picture Books
The Balancing Girl. Rabe, Berniece. 1981. A first grader who
is very good at balancing objects while in her wheelchair and on her
crutches thinks up her greatest balancing act ever to benefit the school
carnival.
Juv Lit: PZ7.R105 Bal 1981
Howie Helps Himself. Fassler, Joan. 1975. Though he enjoys
life with his family and attends school, Howie, a child with cerebral
palsy, wants more than anything else to be able to move his wheelchair
by himself.
Juv Lit: PZ7.F26 Ho
Imagine Me on a Sit-ski! Moran, George. 1995. A child who
has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair describes learning to ski with
adaptive equipment.
Juv Lit: PZ7 .M788195 Im 1995
The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer. Carter, Jimmy. 1995. When
all of the other children run off at the sight of a terrifying sea monster,
Jeremy, who is unable to walk, discovers a kindred lonely spirit in
the baby Snoogle-Fleejer.
Juv Lit: PZ7.C2455 Li 1995
The Little Lame Prince. Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock. 1977. A
young handicapped prince goes on wonderful journeys with his magic traveling
cloak.
Juv Lit: PZ8.C845 Ad45
My Brother, Matthew. Thompson, Mary. 1992. Though David knows
frustration and resentment at times, he feels he understands his disabled
little brother even better than his parents; and together the two boys
experience a great deal of joy.
Juv Lit: PZ7.T37168 My 1992
My Buddy. Osofsky, Audrey. 1992. 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.
Juv Lit: PZ7 .O8347 1994
No Fair to Tigers. Hoffman, Eric. 1999. After she fixes up
her ragged stuffed toy Old Tiger with the help of all her family members,
Mandy takes him to the pet store for tiger food but finds that she cannot
get her wheelchair inside because of the steps out front.
Juv Lit: PZ73 .H627 1999
Princess Pooh. Muldoon, Kathleen M. 1989. Jealous of her invalid
sister's royal treatment as she sits in her wheelchair, Patty Jean tries
out the conveyance and discovers life in a wheelchair is no fun at all.
Juv Lit: PZ7 .M889 Pr 1989
Rachel. Fanshawe, Elizabeth. 1975. This book tells in simple
words & pictures the story of Rachel, a child who uses a wheelchair.
Juv Lit: PZ7.F2222 Rac 1975
Sundiata: Lion King of Mali. Wisniewski, David. 1992. The
story of Sundiata, who overcame physical handicaps, social disgrace,
and strong opposition, to rule Mali in the thirteenth century.
Juv Lit: DT533.K45 W57 1992
Sundiata: The Epic of the Lion King, Retold. Bertol, Roland.
1970. A retelling of the African epic in which an ugly, crippled child
grew up to become the liberator and founder of the great empire of old
Mali.
Juv Lit: PZ8.1.B4194 Su
Very Special Critter. Mayer, Gina. 1992. Alex joins Little
Critter's class at school, but because he's in a wheelchair, nobody
knows how to treat him
Juv Lit: PZ7.M462 Ver 1992
We Can Do It! Dwight, Laura. 1997. Depicts children living
with spina bifida, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, or blindness with
the help of family and friends. Juv Lit: HV888 .D95 1997
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman.
Krull, Kathleen. 1996. A biography of the African-American woman
who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to
win three gold medals in track in a single Olympics.
Juv Lit: GV1061.15.R83 K78 1996
Crutches. Hartling, Peter. 1988. A young boy, searching vainly
for his mother in post-war Vienna, is befriended by a man on crutches
and together they find hope for the future.
Juv Lit: PZ7.H26717 Cr 1988
The Door in the Wall. DeAngeli, Marguerite. 1949. Robin, crippled
by an unspecified illness, is befriended by Brother Luke. During a seige
of the castle he proves his bravery and fulfills the admonition that
one should be ready when the doors of opportunity open.
Juv Lit: PZ7.D35 Do
Head Over Wheels. Kingman, Lee. 1978. After an automobile accident,
17-year-old identical twins, Terry and Kerry, must face the fact that
Terry will never walk again.
Juv Lit: PZ7.K595 He
Hero of Lesser Causes. Johnston, Julia. 1993, c1992. In 1946
twelve-year-old Keely is devastated when her older brother Patrick is
paralyzed by polio, and she starts a campaign to reawaken his waning
interest in life.
Juv Lit: PZ7.J6444 He 1993
Johnny Tremain. Forbes, Esther. 1943. In this story of the
American Revolution, Johnny Tremain finds he cannot continue his trade
of silversmithing with his badly burned and useless hand. He does find
himself able to help the Yankees and also learns that his hand may some
day be healed.
Juv Lit: PZ7.F749 Jo
Kelly's Creek. Smith, Doris. 1975. A nine-year-old boy's struggle
to cope with a special physical problem is relieved by daily visits
to a marsh and learning about its marine life.
Juv Lit: PZ7.S64474 Ke
Lester's Turn. Slepian, Jan. 1968. When 16-year-old Lester,
himself a victim of cerebral palsy, takes his retarded friend from the
hospital for the weekend, tragedy ensues, forcing Lester to examine
the real meaning of their relationship.
Juv Lit: PZ7.S6318 Le
Lionhearted. Savitz, Harriet May. 1975. Resigned to spending
her life in a wheelchair, Rennie reaches out to new friendships with
an overweight girl and a handsome, popular senior boy.
Juv Lit: PZ7.S2664 Li
Pigs Might Fly: a Novel. King-Smith, Dick. 1982. A runt piglet
born with deformed front feet is coached in swimming by a duck and an
otter and, when the pig farm is flooded, becomes a hero.
Juv Lit: PZ7.K5893 Pi 1982
The Secret Garden. Burnett, Frances. 1938, 1975. This story
deals with the awakening of friendship between two children who have
been deprived of the experience of being loved -- one who cultivates
the secret garden and one who is confined to a wheelchair.
Juv Lit: PZ7.B934 Se 1975
Sees Behind Trees. Dorris, Michael. 1996. Sees Behind Trees,
a Native American boy who has learned to see beyond his poor eyesight,
helps the lame, elder Gray Fire find a mysterious valley.
Juv Lit: PZ7.D7287 Sj 1996
Shadow Spinner. Fletcher, Susan. 1998. When Marjan, a thirteen-year-old
girl with a maimed foot, joins the Sultan's harem in ancient Persia,
she gathers for Shahrazad the stories which will save the queen's life.
Juv Lit: PZ7.F6356 Sh 1998
The View From Saturday. Konigsburg, E.L. 1996. Four sixth-grade
students develop a special friendship and are chosen as the Academic
Bowl team by their teacher, a paraplegic injured in an auto accident.
1997 Newbury Medal winner.
Juv Lit: PZ7.K8352 Vi 1996
The Witch's Brat. Sutcliff, Rosemary. 1970. A stirring novel
of a crippled boy in twelfth-century England
Juv Lit: PZ7.S966 Wi
After the Dancing Days. Rostkowski, Margaret. 1986. A forbidden
friendship with a badly disfigured soldier in the aftermath of World
War I forces thirteen-year-old Annie to redefine the word "hero" and
to question conventional ideas of patriotism.
Juv Lit: PZ7.R7237 Af 1986
The Alfred Summer. Slepian, Jan. 1980. Four preteen outcasts,
two of them handicapped, learn lessons in courage and perseverance when
they join forces to build a boat.
Juv Lit: PZ7.S6318 Al
The Crazy Horse Electric Game. Crutcher, Chris. 1987. A high
school athlete, frustrated at being handicapped after an accident, runs
away from home and is helped back to mental and physical health by a
black benefactor and the people in a special school where he enrolls.
Juv Lit: PZ7.C89 Cr 1987
Freak the Mighty. Philbrick, W. R. 1993. At the beginning
of the eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak,
whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind,
find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team.
Juv Lit: PZ7.P52112 Fr 1993
Hide Crawford Quick. Froelich, Margaret Walden. 1983. The
Prayther family had 4 girls and when the new baby was a boy they were
overjoyed. Their joy was marred by the news that the baby only had one
foot. The book tells how each family member deals with and adjusts to
Crawford's disability.
Juv Lit: PZ7.F9197 Hi 1983
Izzy, Willy-nilly. Voigt, Cynthia. 1986. A car accident causes
fifteen-year-old Izzy to lose one leg. Then she must start building
a new life.
Juv Lit: PZ7.V874 Iz 1986
The Monument. Paulsen, Gary. 1991. 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.
Juv Lit: PZ7.P2843 Mo 1991
Only Love. Sallis, Susan. 1980. When she finds herself the
object of a young man's love, a spirited, physically handicapped sixteen-year-old
is both touched and frightened for she knows she may now have to share
her painful secret.
Juv Lit: PZ7.S1533 On 1980
Paper Doll. Feuer, Elizabeth. 1990. Leslie's poignant struggle
for independence makes Paper Doll a dynamic and touching portrayal of
the complex relationship between a young woman and her father.
Juv Lit: PZ7.F43 Pa 1990
Peeling the Onion. Orr, Wendy. 1996. Following an automobile
accident in which her neck is broken, a teenage karate champion begins
a long and painful recovery with the help of her family.
Juv Lit: PZ7.O746 Pf 1997
The Weirdo. Taylor, Theodore. 1991. Seventeen-year-old Chip
Clewt fights to save the black bears in the Powhaten National Wildlife
Refuge.
Juv Lit: PZ7.T2186 We 1991
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Freedman, Russell. 1990. Photographs
and text trace the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt from his birth
in 1892 through his youth, early political career, and presidency, to
his death in Warm Springs, Georgia, in 1945. Includes a section on his
battle with polio which left him permanently disabled. Juv Lit: E807
.F736 1990
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Sullivan, Wilson. 1970.
Hale Stacks: E806 .S87
Joni. Tada, Joni Eareckson. 1976. The uplifting story of one
young woman's struggle to live life to the fullest after a diving accident
leaves her with quadriplegia. Juv Lit: RC406.T4 E18
A Step Further . Tada, Joni Eareckson. 1978. The uplifting
story of one young woman's struggle to live life to the fullest after
a diving accident leaves her with quadriplegia.
Juv Lit: RC406.T4 E19
Going Places: Children Living With Cerebral Palsy.
Bergman, Thomas. 1991.
Juv Lit: Juv Lit: RJ496.C4 B4513 1991
How It Feels to Fight For Your Life. Krementz, Jill. 1989.
Fourteen children tell how they battle pain, uncertainty, and the changes
brought about in their lives by serious illness such as cancer, severe
burns, asthma, and kidney failure.
Juv Lit: RJ380 .K74 1989
On Our Own Terms. Bergman, Thomas. 1989. Describes the activities
at the Caroline Hospital in Stockholm where children with congenital
handicaps receive training and physiotherapy.
Juv Lit: HV903 .B4613 1989
Our Teacher's In a Wheelchair. Powers, Mary Ellen. 1986. Text
and photographs depict the activities of Brian Hanson, who is able to
lead an active existence as a nursery school teacher despite a partial
paralysis requiring the use of a wheelchair.
Juv Lit: LA2317.H418 P69 1986
Small Steps: The Year I got Polio. Kehret, Peg. 1996. The
author describes her battle against polio when she was thirteen and
her efforts to overcome its debilitating effects.
Juv Lit: RC180 .K44 1996
SPINAbilities : A Young Person's Guide to Spina Bifida. Lutkenhoff,
Marlene & Oppenheimer, Sonya. 1997. A guide to coping with the medical,
self-care, and emotional issues of spinal bifida, with an emphasis on
becoming as independent as possible.
Juv Lit: RJ496.S74 S695 1997
Taking Charge : Teenagers Talk About Life & Physical Disabilities.
Kriegsman, Kay Harris. 1992. Discusses such topics as independence,
self-esteem, relationships, and sexuality from the perspective of teenagers
with various physical disabilities.
Juv Lit: HV888.5 .K75 1992
Thinking Big. Kuklin, Susan. 1986. Text and photographs depict
the life of an eight-year-old dwarf who lives in an average-sized family
and att ends a regular school.
Juv Lit: RJ482.A25 O835 1986
What Do You Do When Your Wheelchair Gets a Flat Tire? Biklen,
Douglas. 1978. Questions and answers about disabilities.
Juv Lit: HQ773.6 .W47 1978
Wheelchair Champions. Savitz, Harriet. 1978. Delineates the
development of sports for the physically handicapped using wheelchairs
and includes the personal experiences of many paraplegics and quadriplegics.
Juv Lit: GV709.3 .S38 1978
Secret Garden. BBC & Playhouse Video, 1988. Ten-year-old Mary
comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers
an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
Media Collection: PZ7.B934 Se 1988 VIDEO TAPE
Picture Books
Burnish Me Bright. Cunningham, Julia. 1970. A mute boy, taught
to pantomime by a retired actor, is persecuted by villagers because
he seems to have a secret. Juv Lit: PZ7.C9167 Bu
Don't Worry Dear. Fassler, Joan. 1974. Jenny's mother paiently
waits for her to outgrow her thumbsucking, bedwetting, and stuttering.
Juv Lit: PZ7.F26 Do
A Certain Small Shepherd. Caudill, Rebecca. 1965. A mute
child, assigned to the role of a shepherd in the school Christmas pageant,
is heartbroken when a blizzard cancels the pageant. However, two visitors
during the storm stir the depths of the child's soul and bring the story
to a dramatic and touching end.
Juv Lit: PZ7.C274 Ce
Flip-flop Girl. Paterson, Katherine. 1994. Uprooted following
the death of their father, nine-year-old Vinnie and her five-year-old
brother, Mason, cope in different ways -- one in silence -- but both
with the help of Lupe, the flip-flop girl.
Juv Lit: PZ7.P273 Fl 1994
King of the Wind. Henry, Marguerite. 1948. Agba, a mute stable
boy, follows a horse he has taken care of. Because of his muteness,
Agba cannot defend himself or the horse.
Juv Lit: PZ10.3.H43 Ki
Night of the Bozos. Slepian, Jan. 1983. Thirteen-year-old
George and his Uncle Hibbie were a team, a pair of loners separated
from other people, but the arrival of an extraordinary carnival girl
changes many things for both of them, including helping Uncle Hibbie
to realize that his stutter arises from self-consciousness.
Juv Lit: PZ7.S6318 Ni 1983
The Shiniest Rock of All. Patterson, Nancy Ruth. 1994. Fourth
grader Robert Morris Reynolds, who cannot say his name properly because
he has trouble pronouncing his Rs, works hard with a speech therapist
to overcome his problem.
Juv Lit: PZ7 .P2769 Sh 1994
The Skating Rink. Lee, Mildred. 1969. Seeing
his Mother drown when he was three gave Tuck a stammer and some emotional
problems which the Dagleys, with their encouragement and skating instructions,
are helping him overcome.
Juv Lit: PZ7.L5143 Sk
So Much to Tell You. Marsden, John. 1989. Sent to a hospital
by her mother, Marina, a disfigured Australian girl who refuses to speak,
reveals her thoughts and feelings in a diary.
Juv Lit: PZ7.M35145 So 1989
To Talk in Time. Namovicz, Gene. 1987. Paralyzed into
silence whenever he has to speak to anyone he doesn't know very well,
twelve-year-old Luke is forced to face his fears in order to protect
a passing stranger from rabies.
Juv Lit: PZ7.I597 To 1987
Captives of Time. Bosse, Malcolm J. 1987. Orphaned by the
brutal murder of their parents, Anne and here gentle but mute brother
suffer great hardships as they travel across a dangerous, pestilence-ridden
Europe to their uncle, an armorer and clockmaker, and, after his death,
to a distant city to deliver the commissioned plans of his precious
clock.
Juv Lit: PZ7.B6494 Cap 1987
Crazy Horse Electric Game. Crutcher, Chris. 1987. Willie Weaver
refuses to speak much after his accident, because brain damage makes
it so hard for him to form words.
Juv Lit: PZ7.C89 Cr 1987
The Only Alien on the Planet. Randle, Kristen, D.
1996. After moving to the East Coast, Ginny enters her senior year of
high school and uncovers the secret behind a new friend’s refusal to
speak.
Juv Lit: PZ7.R1585 Ol 1995
Anna's Silent World. Wolf, Bernard. 1994. Describes special
training and equipment used to help a deaf youngster talk, read and
write.
Juv Lit: HV2561.N7 W64
Lisa and Her Soundless World. Levine, Edna. 1974.
A little girl with impaired hearing learns through various methods to
use and understand speech.
Juv Lit: HV2380 .L39
Picture Books
A Cane in Her Hand. Litchfield, Ada. 1977. A young
girl finds ways to cope with her failing vision.
PZ7 .L697 Can 1977
Glasses: Who Needs 'em?. Smith, Lane. 1991. A boy
is unhappy about having to wear glasses, until his doctor provides an
imaginative list of well-adjusted eyeglass wearers.
Juv Lit: PZ7.S6538 Gl 1991
Knots on a Counting Rope. Martin, Bill. 1987. A grandfather
and his blind grandson, Boy-Strength-of-Blue-Horses, reminisce about
the young boy's birth, his first horse, and an exciting horse race.
Juv Lit: PZ7.M3643 Kn 1987
See the Ocean. Condra, Estelle. 1994. Driving through mountain
fog to the beach, two young brothers compete to see who will catch the
first glimpse of the ocean, but it is their blind sister Nellie who
senses it first.
Juv Lit: PZ7.C75916 Se 1994
The Seeing Stick. Yolen, Jane. 1977. Relates how an old man
teaches the emperor's blind daughter to see.
Juv Lit: PZ7.Y78 Sc
We Can Do It! Dwight, Laura. 1997. Depicts children living with spina bifida, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, or blindness with the help of family and friends. Juv Lit: HV888 .D95 1997
Fiction--Children The Blind Boy and the Loon, and Other Eskimo Myths. Maher,
Ramona. 1969. Eleven Eskimo legends and tales from the Arctic and sub-Arctic
regions include "Blind Boy and the Loon," "How Thunder and Lightning
Came to Be," "The Hardhearted Rich Man," and "The Sea Otter Girl."
Juv Lit: PZ8.1.M28 Bl
The Blind Men and the Elephant. Maher, Ramona. 1959. Six blind
men each feel a different part of the elephant and then try to describe
what he is like.
Juv Lit: PZ8.2.Q5 Bl
By The Shores of Silver Lake. Wilder, Laura. 1939. A family
deals with the results of a scarlet fever epidemic which leaves one
of the children, Mary, blind. Juv Lit: PZ7 .W6461By
A Carpet of Flowers. Treviño, Elizabeth Borton de. 1975. A
blind boy's life is changed when he regains his sight after participating
in a traditional Mexican village devotion honoring the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Juv Lit: PC4115 .T77 1975
The Cay. Taylor, Theodore. 1969. A young American boy traveling
on a Dutch freighter is blinded during an attack by a Nazi U-Boat and
finds himself stranded on a Caribbean Island with an aging West Indian.
See also Timothy of the Cay below.
Juv Lit: PZ7.T2186 Cay
Emma and I. Hocken, Sheila. 1978. The story of a guide dog.
Juv Lit: HV1949.E5 H6 1978
From Anna. Little, Jean. 1972. When Anna starts school, it
is discovered she has a visual problem. She is sent to a special classroom
where she begins to learn and develop a good self image.
Juv Lit: PZ7.L7225 Fr
The Ghastly Glasses . Gormley, Beatrice. 1985. Fifth-grader
Andrea discovers that her new glasses give her the power of mind control
over family and friends, but her experiments in "improving" them have
horrifying results.
Juv Lit: PZ7.G6696 Gh 1985
Listen For the Singing. Little, Jean. 1977. As the world around
her braces for World War II, a young Canadian girl with impaired vision
prepares to begin public high school.
Juv Lit: PZ7.L7225 Li
Little Town on the Prairie. Wilder, Laura. 1941. A family
struggles and works together so that Mary, who is blind, may go to college.
Juv Lit: PZ7.W6461 Liv
The Long Journey. Corcoran, Barbara. 1970. Laurie's grandfather,
who has cataracts, finally acknowledges concern about his failing vision.
He sends Laura across Montana on a horse to find her uncle.
Juv Lit: PZ7.C814 Lo2
The Mimosa Tree . Cleaver, Vera. 1970. Shortly after the Proffitts
arrive in the Chicago slums from North Carolina, the stepmother leaves
the family and fourteen-year-old Marvella becomes the sole support for
her blind father and the four younger children.
Juv Lit: PZ7.C57926 Mi
Morning Arrow. Dodge, Nanabah Chee. 1975. Chronicles the life
of a ten-year-old Navajo boy and his blind grandmother living in the
Monument Valley of Utah. Juv Lit: PZ7.D67 Mo
Sees Behind Trees. Dorris, Michael. 1996. Sees Behind
Trees, a Native American boy who has learned to see beyond his poor
eyesight, helps the lame, elder Gray Fire to find a mysterious valley.
Juv Lit: PZ7.D7287 Sj 1996
Spectacles. Beattie, Ann. 1985. When Alison puts on Great Grandmothr's
glasses, they become magical and enable her to understand some of her
great grandmother's frustrations and unfulfilled aspirations.
Juv Lit: PZ7.B380527 Sp 1985
Spectacles. Raskin, Ellen. 1968. A nearsighted little girl
talks about and shows some of the unusual things she saw before being
fitted with glasses.
Juv Lit: PZ7.R1817 Sp
Timothy of the Cay. Taylor, Theodore. 1993. Having
survived being blinded and shipwrecked on a tiny Caribbean island with
the old black man Timothy, twelve-year-old white Phillip is rescued
and hopes to regain his sight with an operation. Alternate chapters
follow the life of Timothy from his days as a young cabin boy. Sequel
to The Cay.
Juv Lit: PZ7.T2186 Ti 1993
The View Beyond My Father. Allan, Mabel Esther. 1977.
A fifteen-year-old discovers it is her father, not her blindness, that
binds her to a narrow world.
Juv Lit: PZ7.A4 Vi
Annerton Pit. Dickinson, Peter. 1977. In search of their grandfather
who has disappeared while tracking down ghosts, two brothers, one blind,
stumble upon a headquarters of subversive revolutionary activity in
an abandoned mine.
Juv Lit: PZ7.D562 An3
The Crows of War.Rayson, Steven. 1975. Captured and blinded
during the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 A.D., a Celtic girl discovers
that even the Romans have good people among them and with their help
returns to her homeland where she is destined to become a priestess.
Juv Lit: PZ7.R2326 Cr3
The Ornament Tree. Thesman, Jean. 1996. When fourteen-year-old
Bonnie moves to her cousin's boardinghouse in Seattle in 1918, she learns
about life from the boarders and progressive women who live and work
there.
Juv Lit: PZ7.T3525 Or 1996
See you Thursday. Ure, Jean. 1981. Sixteen-year-old Marianne,
lonely and uncomfortable at the expensive girls' school she attends,
finds an unexpected friend in her mother's new lodger, Abe Shonfeld,
a young piano teacher who has been blind since birth.
Juv Lit: PZ7.U64 Se 1981
Tangerine. Bloor, Edward. 1997. Twelve-year-old Paul, who
lives in the shadow of his football hero brother, Erik, fights for the
right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to
remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
Juv Lit: PZ7.B6236 Tan 1997
Teacup Full of Roses. Mathis, Sharon Bell. 1972. Joe's decision
to leave home is prompted by despair over his Mother's blindness to
his younger brother's talents and his older brother's drug addiction.
Juv Lit: PZ7.M4284 Te
The Window. Ingold, Jeanette. 1996. When she comes to live
with relatives on a Texas farm, fifteen-year-old Mandy encounters the
grandmother she never knew and begins to come to terms with her blindness
caused by the automobile accident that killed her mother.
Juv Lit: PZ7.I533 Wi 1996
Little by Little: A Writer's Education. Little, Jean.
1987. An autobiography of Jean Little, an award-winning children's author
who was nearly blind from birth. Juv Lit: PR9199.3 .L555 Z47 1987
Ray Charles. Mathis, Sharon Bell. 1973. A biography of the
Black musician who became famous despite his blindness.
Juv Lit: ML3930.C443 M4
Stars Come Out Within. Little, Jean. 1990. In this
sequel to Little by Little, Jean Little continues her life story.
Juv Lit: PR9199.3 .L555 Z475 1990
Stevie Wonder. Hasegawa, Sam. 1974. A biography of the blind
black musician who from early childhood showed signs of the talent that
has made him one of America's most popular performers.
Juv Lit: ML3930.W65 H4
The Rose-Colored Glasses. Leggett, Linda. 1979. After a car
accident leaves her with a visual impairment, a young girl tries to
adjust to wearing glasses and helps her classmates understand what it
is like to have faulty vision.
Juv Lit: RE48.2.C5 L42
Why Do Some People Wear Glasses? Asimov, Isaac. 1993. Briefly
describes how our eyes work, various vision problems, and how glasses
can help us see better.
Juv Lit: RE976 .A83 1993
Accept Me As I Am: Best Books of Juvenile Nonfiction on Impairments
and Disabilites. Friedberg, Joan, Mullins, June & Sukiennik, Adelaide.
1985 CMC: Z 1037.9 .F73 1985
Active Learning for Children With Disabilities. Bailey, Pam.
1996.
CMC: In Process
ADHD in the Classroom: Strategies for Teachers [video kit]. Dawkins,
Kevin. 1994. Four-step plan for avoiding school discipline problems
with children having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Demonstrates
the incorporation of social skills into the curriculum. Shows how to
implement such behavior management methods as: color charts and signs,
point system, token economy, and turtle-control technique.
Media Collection: LC4713.2 .A34 1994 VIDEO TAPE
Backyards and Butterflies : Ways to Include Children With Disabilities
in Outdoor Activities. Greenstein, Doreen. 1995.
CMC: GV191.635 .B33 1995
Beyond Seeing and Hearing: Teaching Geography to Sensory Impaired
Children.
Microforms: KCDL #SE K-121
The Bookfinder. Dreyer, Sharon. 1977. A reference guide to
children's literature about the needs and problems of youth aged 2-15.
Also Volume 2, 1981 Volume 3, 1985.
Ref: Z1037.A1 D678 1977
Classroom Interventions for ADHD [video kit]. DuPaul,
George & Stoner, Gary. 1999. Includes peer tutoring, token economy and
response cause strategies, includeing the Attention Training System,
active teching of classroom rules, and self-management techniques.
Media Collection: LC4713.4 .C57 1999 VIDEO TAPE
Complete Learning Disabilites Resource Library: Ready to Use Information
& Materials for Remediating Specific Learning Disabilities. Harwell,
Joan. 1995.
CMC: LC4705 .H367 1995
Curriculum Guidelines for the Elementary Learning Disabled Classrooms.
Microforms: KCDL #SE K-127
Curriculum Guidelines for Hearing Impaired Classrooms.
Microforms: KCDL #SE K-125
Disability Awareness : 24 Lessons For the Inclusive Classroom.
Williams, Kimberly A. 1998.
CMC: In Process
Games for People with Sensory Impairments : Strategies for Including
Individuals of All Ages. Lieberman, Lauren J. 1996. This volume
contains a collection of games to play, which are fun and at the same
time, provide additional practice in signing and fingerspelling.
CMC: HV1767 .L54 1996
Get a Wiggle On . Raynor, Sherry. 1975 A guide for helping
visually impaired children grow. See also Move It!!! below.
CMC: HV1598 .R39 1975
Helping Children with Specific Learning Disabilities : A Practical
Guide for Parents and Teachers. Painting, Donald. 1983. Practical
techniques, strategies, and interventions for helping children with
attention problems and hyperactivity.
Hale Stacks: LC4704 .P34 1983
How to Reach and Teach ADD/ADHD Children. Rief, Sandra F. 1993.
Practical techniques, strategies, and interventions for helping children
with attention problems and hyperactivity
Hale Stacks: LC4713.4 .R54 1993
Inclusion : 450 Strategies For Success : A Practical Guide For
All Educators Who Teach Students With Disabilities. Hammeken, Peggy
A. 1995. CMC: LC4015 .H28 1995
Inclusion: Strategies For Working With Young Children. Moore,
Lorraine. 1997.
CMC: LC1201 .M66 1997
Jumpin' Jake Settles Down. Shapiro, Lawrence. 1994. A workbook
to help impulsive children learn to think before they act.
CMC: LC4713.2 .S53 1994
Kendall Demonstration Elementary School Auditory and Speech Training
Curriculum Guide.
Microforms: KCDL #SE K-120
Kids with Special Needs. Getskow, Veronica. 1996. Presents
both the myths and the facts about disabilities and provides teachers
and parents with information and activities to promote disability awareness
and understanding.
CMC: HV1553 .G47 1996
Learning Activities and Teaching Ideas For the Special Child in
the Regular Classroom. Glazzard, Peggy. 1982.
CMC: LC4015 .G57 1982
Learning Activities for the Learning Disabled. Major, Suzanne
& Walsh, Mary Ann. 1977.
CMC: LC4704 .M34
Learning Disabilities Sourcebook. Shin, Linda. 1998. Basic
information about disorders such as dyslexia, visual and auditory processing
deficits, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and autism, along
with statistical and demographic data, reports on current research initiatives,
an explanation of the assessment process, and a special section for
adults with learning disabilities.
Hale Stacks: LC4705 .L434 1998
Learning Through Play : Curriculum and Activities for the Inclusive
Classroom . Dolinar, Kathleen J. 1994.
CMC: LC4019.2 .D65 1994
Life Skills Activities for Special Children. Mannix, Darlene.
1992.
CMC: HV894 .M36 1992
Making It Better. Oehlberg, Barbara. 1996. Activities for children
living in a stressful world.
CMC: LB1139.35.A37 O44 1996
Many Ways of Hearing : 94 Multitasked Lessons in Listening.
Blatchford, Claire. 1997. This collection of hands-on activities will
encourage your students to explore the concept of sound through language
arts, social studies, music, and art. Students will expand their understanding
of the communication process as they explore the mechanics of sound,
the way we "hear" through other senses, and more.
CMC: LB1139.L5 B52 1997
More Notes from a Different Drummer : A Guide to Juvenile Fiction
Portraying the Disabled Baskin, Barbara. 1984
CMC: Z 1037.9 .B36 1984
Move It!!! Drouillard, Richard. 1977. A guide for helping
visually impaired children grow. Sequel to Get a Wiggle On .
CMC: HV1631 .D76 1977
Notes from a Different Drummer : A Guide to Juvenile Fiction Portraying
the Handicapped Baskin, Barbara. 1977
CMC: Z 1037.9 .B37
Play It By Sign: Games In Sign Language. Kirchner, Suzie Linton.
1974. This volume contains a collection of games to play, which are
fun and at the same time, provide additional practice in signing and
fingerspelling.
Hale Stacks: HV2474 .K46
Portraying Persons with Disabilities: An Annotated Bibliography
of Nonfiction for Children and Teenagers Friedberg, Joan, Mullins,
June & Sukiennik, Adelaide. 1992
Ref: Z 1037.5 .F735
Portraying Persons with Disabilities: An Annotated Bibliography
of Fiction for Children and Teenagers Robertson, Debra. 1992
Ref: Z 1037.9 .R63
Quick-Guides to Inclusion 2 : Ideas For Educating Students With
Disabilities. Robertson, Debra. 1992
CMC: In Process
Ready to Use Learning Disabilities Activities Kit. Harwell,
Joan. 1993.
CMC: LC4705 .H37 1993
Sign Language Comprehensive Reference Manual. Hoffman, Cheryl
M. 1990.
Ref: HV2475 .H64 1990
Signs of Sharing: An Elementary Sign Language and Deaf Awareness
Curriculum. Rakow, Sue F. V. 1993.
CMC: HV2474 .R33 1993
Steps to Independence : Teaching Everyday Skills to Children With
Special Needs. Baker, Bruce L. 1997.
CMC: HV891 .B16 1997
Strategies for Teaching Learners With Special Needs. Polloway,
Edward A. 1997.
CMC: LC4631 .P65 1997
Teaching Kids With Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom
: Strategies and Techniques Every Teacher Can Use to Challenge and Motivate
Struggling Students. Winebrenner, Susan. 1996.
CMC: LC4705 .W56 1996
Teaching Strategies: Education of Children with Attention Deficit
Disorder. Chesapeake Institute. 1994.
CMC: LC4713.4 .C44 1994
Teaching Study Strategies to Students with Learning Disabilities.
Strichart, Stephen & Mangrum, Charles. 1993.
CMC: LC4704.74 .S77 1993
Take Time To Talk. White, Patricia F. 1996 A resource for apraxia
therapy, esophageal speech training, aphasia therapy, and articulation
therapy
CMC: RC423 .W487 1996
Taking Charge of ADHD : The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents.
Barkley, Russell A. 1995.
Hale Stacks: RJ506.H9 B373 1995
Turnabout Children: Overcoming Dyslexia and Other Learning Disabilities.
MacCracken, Mary. 1986. Hale Stacks: LC4705 .M33 1986
Understanding ADHD: A Practical Guide for Teachers and Parents.
1997.
Hale Stacks: LC4713.4 .U53 1997
Understanding Abilities, Disabilities, and Capabilities: A Guide
To Children's Literature 1991
CMC: Z1037.9 .C36 1991
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