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Baratz-Logsted, Lauren
Crazy Beautiful
In this contemporary retelling of Beauty and the Beast, a teenaged boy whose hands were amputated in an explosion and a gorgeous girl whose mother has recently died form an instant connection when they meet on their first day as new students.
191 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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Bingham, Kelly L.
Shark Girl
After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future.
276 p. 2007
Teen Fiction Book
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Connolly, Kevin Michael
Double Take
Connolly's account of his life as someone born without legs. This is his story of his journeys around the world and his discovery of what it truly means to be human.
227 p. 2009
Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
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Flake, Sharon
Pinned
Adonis is smart, intellectually gifted and born without legs; Autumn is strong, a great wrestler, and barely able to read in ninth grade -- but Autumn is attracted to Adonis and determined to make him a part of her life whatever he or her best friend thinks.
228 p. 2012
Teen Fiction Book
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Friesen, Jonathan
Jerk California
Plagued by Tourette's syndrome and a stepfather who despises him, Sam meets an old man in his small Minnesota town who sends him on a road trip designed to help him discover the truth about his life.
327 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book
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Griffin, Paul
The Orange Houses
Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.
147 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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McGowan, Anthony
Jack Tumor
Fourteen-year-old Hector, suffering from severe headaches, is diagnosed with a brain tumor which speaks in his head, calling itself Jack Tumor and making an effort to improve Hector's home life, increase his popularity, and win him a girlfriend before the operation that will mean the end of one or both of them.
292 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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Palacio, R. J.
Wonder
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
315 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
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Portman, Frank
Andromeda Klein
High school sophomore Andromeda is an outcast because she studies the occult and has a hearing impairment and other disabilities. She overcomes grief over terrible losses by enlisting others' help in her plan to save library books and finds a kindred spirit along the way.
424 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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Richmond, Sandra
Wheels for Walking
Sally and Brian are in love. But at the end of a wonderful ski weekend together, a car accident leaves Sally fully paralyzed. This powerful book details Sally's struggles from her first moments of terror in the hospital through the months in traction...After months in a hospital ward, she visits the beach with her therapist, and realizes that her life may not be over.
221 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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Sonnenblick, Jordan
After Ever After
Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.
260 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Stork, Francisco X.
Marcelo in the Real World
Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.
312 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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