The Secret Garden
An illustrated edition of Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's classic about a ten-year-old girl named Mary, orphaned by a cholera outbreak, who comes to live at a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers Colin, her invalid cousin, and the mysteries of a locked garden.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 173
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 970
subjects: gardens, physically handicapped, yorkshire (england), large type books, orphans, england, people with disabilities [X], great britain, loneliness, closed caption video recordings, orphans -, children, orphans-fiction, gardens-fiction, physically handicapped-fiction, yorkshire (england)-fiction, friendship [X], people with physical disabilities, children's stories, children with disabilities, children with physical disabilities, yorkshire, cousins, secrecy, secrets [X]
Run
Bo Dickinson is a seventeen-year-old girl from a bad family, but she is also over-protected, legally blind, Agnes Atwood's best friend--so when Bo calls in the middle of the night, desperate to get out of town, Agnes helps her to steal the Atwoods' car and the two girls go on the run, even though Agnes is not sure exactly what they are running from.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: runaway children, fugitives from justice, friends, secrecy, best friends, blind, people with disabilities [X], runaways, friendship [X], secrets [X]
Caterpillars Can't Swim
Ryan finds his freedom in the water, where he is not bound by gravity and his wheelchair.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: people with disabilities [X], closeted gays, suicidal behavior, secrecy, water, friendship [X], prejudices, secrets [X]
Wild And Crooked
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.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder, secrecy, friendship [X], cerebral palsy, people with disabilities [X], city and town life, secrets [X], kentucky
Turning
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 around her: like the booze her mother is hiding, or the fact that maybe her fall was not entirely accidental.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: african american teenagers, ballet dancers, dancers with disabilities, falls (accidents), secrecy, mothers and daughters, friendship [X], african americans, teenagers, people with disabilities [X], accidents, secrets [X], mothers-daughter relationship, new york (n.y.)