Little Mary is an orphan, come from India to her relatives in England. Her cousin Colin is a sickly lad, living in the same large cold house that Mary has been sent to. Both children are self-centered and lonely, unhappy in different ways. It is only when Mary finds a rusty old key that opens the long-hidden garden that the two learn to find love and happiness. In the mystery and beauty of nature and living things, Mary and Colin overcome their problems...

In 1880, Noah's aunt teaches him how to read as they explore the Colorado prairie together, as Noah pushes Aunt Dora in her wheelchair.

Computer-literate, twelve-year-old Tru keeps an electronic diary where she documents her desire to cure her handicapped twin brother and her plan to create a television show.

When Kimberly, who is hearing impaired, joins her sixth-grade class, Samantha befriends her and learns sign language.

Recounts how the young Helen Keller, left blind and deaf by a childhood illness, learned to communicate with the world.

A biography of the woman who taught a deaf-blind girl how to communicate with others.