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1) It's my life
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While facing disturbing revelations about the cause of her disability, a high school junior with cerebral palsy is on the verge of giving up on herself until she learns that her childhood crush has moved back into town.
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Born with cerebral palsy, Amy can't walk without a walker, talk without a voice box, or even fully control her facial expressions. Plagued by obsessive-compulsive disorder, Matthew is consumed with repeated thoughts, neurotic rituals, and crippling fear. Both in desperate need of someone to help them reach out to the world, Amy and Matthew are more alike than either ever realized. When Amy decides to hire student aides to help her in her senior year...
3) Petey
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In 1922, Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized; sixty years later, after he is moved to a nursing home, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy of life.
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"From the first line of Just by Looking at Him, you'll know this story is so much more than boy meets boy. First, there's the humor. Elliot is a writer who spends his days navigating the back stabbing, the pressure, and the day to day snark of writing aggressively average television. In laugh out loud detail, we're immediately with him on his journey to try to get his lines onto the screen. But there's a deeper, and more poignant, story beating at...
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Set in 1917 in a small Australian outback town and against the backdrop of a nation at war, Let the Balloon Go is a poignant story of a boy and his family. Young John Sumner has contracted polio and wears a leg brace. He also suffers mild epilepsy. While his brothers fight in the war overseas, John fights a much more personal battle – the battle for his own freedom. His over-anxious mother is afraid to let him play games and climb trees like other...
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Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
9) Small steps
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Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along.
10) Wild and crooked
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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.
11) Stoner & Spaz
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For sixteen-year-old Ben Bancroft - a kid with cerebral palsy, no parents, and an overprotective grandmother - the closest thing to happiness is hunkering alone in the back of the Rialto Theatre watching Bride of Frankenstein for the umpteenth time. Of course he waits for the lights to dim before making an entrance, so that his own lurching down the aisle doesn't look like an ad for Monster Week. The last person he wants to run into is drugged-up...
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Fantastic Freewheeler volume 3
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Drew Daniels, aka the Fantastic Freewheeler, is paired up with unlikable Brent Baker who hijacks their science project to build a mega robot that goes haywire, so Freewheeler uses his superpowers to figure out how to stop the destructive construction.
14) Indigo girl
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Fifteen-year-old Aiko Cassidy, a manga enthusiast with cerebral palsy, spends a summer in Japan, learning about her father's family and making new friends, while avoiding her stepfather and baby half-sister.
15) Golden daffodils
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Wishing for a miracle to make her perfect and normal, a fifth grader with cerebral palsy transfers from a special school to a regular classroom.
17) A contest
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Even though Mike has cerebral palsy, he shows the children in his class that he can play to win when he gets the chance.
18) Fuera de mí
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Melody es la chica más inteligente en la escuela, pero nadie lo sabe. La mayoría de las personas, incluyendo a sus profesores y médicos, creen que ella está cognitivamente desafió y le han colocado en educación especial. Si ella sólo podía compartir lo que piensa y lo sabe, pero la melodía no puede hablar, caminar o escribir. Los lectores serán movidos por su unidad y perseverancia.
"Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her...
20) My friend Suhana
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While volunteering with her mother at a community center, a seven-year-old girl befriends Suhana, also seven, whose cerebral palsy makes it difficult for her to communicate or control her movements. Includes facts about cerebral palsy.
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