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Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You
by Sonia Sotomayor
The boundary-breaking Supreme Court Justice and the award-winning author of Book Fiesta present a celebration of the world’s diversity that explains why different people make the world more vibrant and wonderful, just the way a variety of plants and flowers enhance a garden.
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I Am Helen Keller
by Brad Meltzer
A latest entry in the best-selling series describes how Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing as a young child, learned how to communicate with the help of teacher Annie Sullivan and became a social activist for people with disabilities.
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Dark Was the Night
by Gary Golio
The story of Blind Willie Johnson—the legendary Texas musician whose song "Dark Was the Night" was included on the Voyager I space probe's Golden Record.
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Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!
by Sarah Kapit
Vivy Cohen wants to play baseball. Ever since her hero, Major League star pitcher VJ Capello, taught her how to throw a knuckleball at a family fun day for kids with autism, she's been perfecting her pitch. And now she knows she's ready to play on a real team. When her social skills teacher makes her write a letter to someone she knows, she writes to VJ and tells him everything about how much she wants to pitch, and how her mom says she can't because she's a girl and because she has autism. And then two amazing things happen—Vivy meets a Little League coach who invites her to join his team, the Flying Squirrels. And VJ starts writing back.
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Wink: Surviving Middle School with One Eye Open
by Rob Harrell
Diagnosed with a rare eye cancer, a seventh grader endures painful treatments and social abandonment while searching for laughter in life’s weirdness, in a tale based on the “Adam@Home” creator’s own life experiences.
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Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille
by Jennifer Bryant
An inspiring picture book biography of Louis Braille describes how after losing his eyesight in early childhood he wanted to read so much that he invented a touch alphabet that became a standard that is still in use today.
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Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
by Laurie Ann Thompson
Previously depicted in the film Emmanuel's Gift, the inspiring story of a West African youth who pursued an education, helped support his family and became a record-setting cyclist in spite of a disability traces his ongoing achievements as an activist.
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Henry the Boy
by Molly Felder
Young Henry finds that with his crutches he resembles a number of different things, including a heron and a robot, but he is still just Henry the boy.
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A Friend for Henry
by Jenn Bailey
Henry would like to find a friend at school, but for a boy on the autism spectrum, making friends can be difficult, as his efforts are sometimes misinterpreted or things just go wrong—but Henry keeps trying and in the end, he finds a friend he can play with.
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Roll with It
by Jamie Sumner
Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease.
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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
by Dusti Bowling
New friends and a mystery help Aven, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.
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Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess
by Shari Green
Dealing with her mother remarrying a man with twin daughters and her family moving, deaf sixth-grader Macy is told that she must help her elderly neighbor Iris Gillan, who is getting ready to move to a nursing home.
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Not If I Can Help It
by Carolyn Mackler
Struggling with changes that are made difficult by her Sensory Processing Disorder, young Willa is thrown for a loop when her father reveals that he has been dating her best friend's mom.
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Song for a Whale
by Lynne Kelly
Frustrated by the communication challenges of the hearing world as her school's only hearing-impaired student, a 12-year-old electronics whiz uses her tech skills to help a whale that has lost its ability to communicate.
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Jubilee
by Patricia Reilly Giff
Living with her beloved aunt and faithful dog years after her mother left and she stopped speaking, young Judith communicates through gestures and drawing cartoons while tackling the challenges of a new school and questioning whether or not to seek out her mother.
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