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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Maggie Mayfield is an A-plus student with big plans for herself, but at this moment she is also facing a lot of problems--like starting middle school and figuring out how to help her father who is out of work and in a wheelchair.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Herbalist and ex-lawyer China Bayles decides to take a respite from the stresses of her life by accompanying her wheelchair-bound boyfriend to a chili cook-off, but her burdens only get worse when judge Jerry Jeff Cody dies at the scene from a severe allergic reaction to a peanut that mysteriously made its way into a bowl of Texas chili.
6) Avatar
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Jake Sully is a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. He is given a mission to infiltrate the Na'vi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious ore. But a beautiful Na'vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus Illustrated
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
In this illustrated choose-your-own-ending book, Ben is uncomfortable when he meets Aisha, a girl in a wheelchair. Will Ben make assumptions or find out more about her? Readers make choices for Ben and read what happens next, with each story path leading to different consequences. Includes four different endings and discussion questions.
8) McKenna
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Seattle fourth-grader McKenna Brooks, who lives for gymnastics, struggles with school work until Josie, a tutor confined to a wheelchair, helps her with reading comprehension and much more.
9) Golden lasso
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jan Warren left the East for one desperate reason: to help her young, wheelchair-bound brother get well. After inheriting a ranch in the beautiful Arizona desert, she puts all her money and dreams into make a success of Rancho Arroyo. But managing a resort and its continually mounting problems exacted its toll from the start--problems that are not all helped by the commanding presence of Derek Brannon. Owner of the Golden Lasso, the neighboring ranch...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After losing his brother, mom, and most of his friends, Aaron Stein is left with his shambolic father alone in their moldering secondhand bookstore, but just when he considers selling the store he meets new people and takes on new challenges, helping him come to terms with what he has lost and who he wants to be.
Aaron Stein's friends have gone to college and moved on with their lives, while he has been left behind in the Cascade Mountains of Washington...
Author
Series
Twitch the squirrel volume 3
Publisher
Holiday House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Twitch hears that the school children are taking a field trip to the science museum, he decides he wants to join in the fun--so he stows away on the school bus and hides in a backpack to get in. But as always, not everyone is glad to see a squirrel in their midst. Pursued by security guards, Twitch turns the exhibits into his own private carnival rides--swinging on a Foucault pendulum, riding a model Mars Rover, and skittering across the Bernoulli...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation. What does it mean to submit to a new reality--or to resist it? How do we compare relative sufferings? What is the relationship between time and work? In our isolation, what do other people mean to us? How do we think about them? What is the ratio of contempt to compassion in a crisis? When an unfamiliar world arrives, what...
13) Turning
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Before the "accident" Genie was an aspiring ballerina, a star pupil at her exclusive New York dance school, now she is a bitter teenager, permanently confined to a wheelchair, shutting herself off from her friends, her beloved teacher, and even her mother; but at physical therapy she meets Kyle, a gymnast whose traumatic brain injury has landed him in therapy--and through their growing friendship Genie realizes that she has to confront the things...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old wheelchair-bound William loves dinosaurs and when Santa delivers a real one, the two misfits set out on a wild Christmas adventure, while Hunter pursues them.
Author
Publisher
Deseret Book
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When Steve Mikita was 18 months old, he was diagnosed with Werdnig-Hoffman's Disease and given six months to live. But his parents had a different plan for their son. Instead of taking Steve home from the hospital to die, his parents took him home; Steve defied the odds and lived. He is now 53 years old and has outlived both his parents. Though he has spent his entire life in a wheelchair, he graduated magna cum laude from Duke University and received...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Comedian Zach Anner opens his frank and devilishly funny book, If at Birth You Don't Succeed, with an admission: he botched his own birth. Two months early, underweight and under-prepared for life, he entered the world with cerebral palsy and an uncertain future. So how did this hairless mole-rat of a boy blossom into a viral internet sensation who's hosted two travel shows, impressed Oprah, driven the Mars Rover, and inspired a John Mayer song?...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Revised edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
410L
Language
English
Description
"Some people use wheelchairs to get to and from places. What does that mean? Using simple, engaging text and full-color photos, readers learn why someone would use a wheelchair and what daily life is like for someone who can't walk. This book includes a video, which launches via a 4D app."--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Effie Galanos' goals for her senior year include her navigating her way through her high school that is not really wheelchair-friendly, getting into the perfect college, and getting her crush Wilder to accompany her to the prom--but by spring she is beginning to see herself entirely differently.
Author
Series
Derek Fallon books volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Derek wants to train his pet monkey to help Umberto, a new student who uses a wheelchair, but Umberto would rather steal Derek's cartoon ideas.
Author
Series
Secret sisters mystery volume 2
Publisher
Walnut Springs Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Ida Mae Babbit has done her community service and is a reformed woman - no more law-breaking for her. But when Arlette's granddaughter Eden discovers a mystery in a fancy nursing home, Ida Mae - with the perfect excuse of a broken wrist and a broken ankle - checks herself into the place. After all, it is for the greater good. Soon she's buzzing around in her motorized wheelchair, questioning the residents and swiping files from the office. She's bound...
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