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Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"An introduction to fifteen fascinating disabled athletes and their many achievements, daily challenges, and joys. Includes an Author's Note, glossary, and history of the Paralympics"--
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"A heartrending story about a young mother's fight to keep her daughter and the winds of fortune that tear them apart ... California, 1938. When she loses her parents in an accident, sixteen-year-old Rosanne is taken in by the owners of the vineyard where she has lived her whole life as the vinedresser's daughter. She moves into Celine and Truman Calvert's spacious house with a secret, however--Rosie sees colors when she hears sound. She promised...
3) Cat care
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Emma is eager to foster Mittens the cat, but she did not anticipate the chaos a cat can cause--but than Mittens disappears.
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English
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In an infinitesimal tick of time, my life changed forever. I will tell you my story, and you decide, whether it was for the better or the worse. No one in my family had heard of it before. The words AVM (arteriovenous malformation) were to become part of their everyday language. Of course, as soon as other people heard what it was, everyone seemed to have a cousin, sister, or acquaintance who had suffered an AVM on one form or another. Unfortunately,...
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English
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This textbook, in a simple language, for the research scholars provides deep and penetrating analysis of various traits of personality, mental health and emotional stability of children with special needs. All the emerging issues and concerns are, discussed in detail in their constitutional, physical, psychological and physiological perspectives. The work of Indian as well as Foreign authors are, given due, emphasis in understanding the special needs...
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English
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Get the Summary of Andrew Leland's The Country of the Blind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Country of the Blind" by Andrew Leland is a comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted experience of blindness. Leland delves into the varied perceptions and realities of being blind, from the common misconception of total darkness to the actual diversity of visual experiences among the blind. He shares his personal...
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English
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Decolonising the Human examines the ongoing project of constituting 'the human' in light of the durability of coloniality and the persistence of multiple oppressions. The 'human' emerges as a deeply political category, historically constructed as a scarce existential resource. Once weaponised, it allows for the social, political and economic elevation of those who are centred within its magic circle, and the degradation, marginalisation and immiseration...
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English
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Come, Let Me Guide You explores the intimate communication between author Susan Krieger and her guide dog Teela over the ten-year span of their working life together. This is a book about being led by a dog to new places in the world and new places in the self, a book about facing life's challenges outwardly and within, and about reading those clues-those deeply felt signals-that can help guide the way. It is also, more broadly, about the importance...
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English
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Two alleged murderers in LA County jail take on one of the biggest problems to date: incarceration of people with mental illness. Not only is this a pressing issue within jails and prisons, the lack of treatment and support for people with mental illness is contributing to our homeless issues throughout Los Angeles and the rest of the country.
"The Solution" details effective strategies and successful methods for treating and caring for the mentally...
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Houston and his younger brother Robbie dream of becoming astronauts, but when Houston is accepted to the Junior Astronaut Recruitment Program he realizes that Robbie's dream may not be achievable due to his cerebral palsy, so he makes a new plan that shoots for the stars.
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English
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Clay Byars was recovering at home from a near-fatal car crash when he suffered a massive stroke. He was just eighteen years old. He awoke, back in the hospital, and was told he would be paralyzed from the eyes down for the rest of his life.
Determined to defy the odds, Clay quickly and miraculously began to recover his mobility but discovered just how different his life would be-a disparity embodied by his identical twin brother, Will. As Will went...
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On a warm, moonlit night in mid-June 1865, three days prior to Beau and Carlotta Wells's scheduled departure, an unsigned note was attached to a door at the main entrance to the vigilance committees' headquarters in a small community called Quiet Creek, located about fifteen miles west of Pine Grove City, Kentucky.
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English
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Seeing through the eyes of others brings new perspective on the place we call home.
In Land of Many Shores, writers share their perspectives about life in Newfoundland and Labrador from often- neglected viewpoints. In this collection, Indigenous people, cultural minorities, 2SLGBTQ+ people, people living with mental or physical disabilities, workers in the sex industry, people from a variety of faiths, people who have experienced incarceration, and...
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English
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Our Life Our Way, A Memoir of Active Faith, Profound Love, and Courageous Disability Rights explores an extraordinary love story grown out of engagement with both disability rights advocacy and Christian faith communities. This important memoir contains thoughtful, often-entertaining, and sometimes heart-wrenching anecdotes of a couple's journey to create their profoundly intimate relationship and Christian marriage, in a world, not yet ready for...
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J O Moshopeh Pratt, in his book, From the Valley to the Mountain, encourages and motivates his young friends who might be labeled as drop-outs to prove that they are not drop-outs. Probably, they might be slow or late developers; or most probably, they might not have had people who were capable to discern that they had potentials in them that needs to be developed. Parents who have children who are slow in their development process are also encouraged...
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In search of the promised land, I headed to rural Brazil. I figured I could just put big tires on my scooter/wheelchair and plant new roots in the Amazon rain forest, a place not adaptive to mobility vehicles.
After thirty-four years in Hawaiian paradise, what began as a quest to make a new home in a foreign land, ended up as a lesson in survival techniques. I applied creative solutions to the continual bombardment of toxic irritants that plagued...
19) Acepte a mi nina
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Español
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Este libro esta basado en hechos personales reales que he ido superando en el transcurso de los anos. ?Has pasado por algo similar?, abuso sexual, maltrato familiar, depresion, aborto, ataques de panico o miedo de salir a la calle,!deshazte de esas cadenas, tu eres una hija(o) de Dios vales mucho! Entregale todo a Dios,!y se feliz!
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English
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University on Watch is a story about youthful hope, yearning for more, triumph over failures, and mistakes beyond our own control and doing. The book is a native story to New York, but couldn't be more otherworldly, at times supernatural, and grippingly suspenseful as the book unfolds. The crisis in the academy, or New London University, is one that goes to the very epicenter of higher learning and education. This crisis also is imagined, created...
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