Catalog Search Results
Series
Physical Desc
124 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Seattle fourth-grader McKenna Brooks' cast comes off she dives back into gymnastics training in hopes of making the competitive team, but after volunteering at a therapeutic horseback riding center, she considers broadening her interests.
2) Roll with it
Author
Physical Desc
250 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jemma, who has severe cerebral palsy, must grapple with dark truths that only she knows, and is unable to communicate.
Jemma knows who the murderer is-- because he told her. He thought his secret was safe because her severe cerebral palsy won't let her speak or move. When a new technology means she may be able to communicate and reveal all she knows, Jemma no longer feels powerless. But now she's in a race against time. The killer...
5) Hear me
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After being diagnosed with progressive hearing loss, Rayne resists her parents' efforts to "fix" her and rethinks her own assumptions about what her condition means for her"--
One year after being diagnosed with hearing loss, Rayne's hearing keeps getting worse, even with aids. Friendships and school are a struggle, surfing is now a wipeout, and she can't understand her favorite singer's lyrics. Rayne's parents are pushing for her to get cochlear...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pansy often backs out of things her best friend, Anna, wants to do, including attending the sleepaway camp where Anna contracted meningitis and became disabled, but when Pansy learns that surgery might restore Anna to her old self, she will do anything to become extraordinary in time for Anna's return.
Author
Series
Giver volume 2
Language
English
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
10) Odd & true
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from separate viewpoints, Odette returns in 1909 after a two-year absence, promising to rescue her disabled sister, Tru, from the monsters they were taught to believe in.
11) Prairie school
Author
Series
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1880, Noah's aunt teaches the reluctant nine-year-old how to read as they explore the Colorado prairie together, Noah pushing Aunt Dora in her wheelchair.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Writing poetry helps fifth-grader Harper Lee Morgan cope with her father's absence, being evicted, and having to skip school to care for her brother while their mother works, and things look even brighter after she befriends a mute girl and a kindly disabled woman.
16) Bouncing back
Author
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Orphaned thirteen year-old Carlos learns what it truly means to be a teammate when he must help save his new wheelchair basketball team's gym from destruction.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifth-grader Cally Louise Fisher stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates.
19) Blink once
Author
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
West, a high school senior with everything going for him until an accident leaves him paralyzed, connects with Olivia, a patient in the hospital room next to his, who seems to understand his dreams and nightmares but who has a secret.
20) Song for a whale
Author
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Iris and her grandmother, both deaf, drive from Texas to Alaska armed with Iris's plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with other whales.
Looking for an older book we don’t have?
Printed books not owned by Santa Fe Public Library that were released more than 6 months ago can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup. Limit: 3 per calendar month.
Looking for a newer item we don’t have?
Suggest the library purchase a new book, DVD, audiobook, or music CD through your account. Limit: 30 active requests at a time. Submit Purchase Suggestion