Tag: Childrens

• ‘Rescue & Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship’- Kensky, Jessica. Downes, Patrick

  Based on a real-life partnership, the heartening story of the love and teamwork between a girl and her service dog will illuminate and inspire. Rescue thought he’d grow up to be a Seeing Eye dog — it’s the family business, after all. When he gets the news that he’s better suited to being a service…

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  23rd Jan 2024

  Age, Amputee, Author, Autobiography, Book Type, Childrens, Contemporary, D, Disability, Disability Aid User, Fiction, Genre, K, M, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Physical Disability, Picture Books, Realistic, Service Dog User

  Amputee, Animals, Biographical, Childrens, Contemporary, Fiction, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Physical Disability, Picture Book, Realistic, Service Dog User, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, USA

• ‘My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay’- Best, Cari

  Zulay and her three best friends are all in the same first grade class and study the same things, even though Zulay is blind. When their teacher asks her students what activity they want to do on Field Day, Zulay surprises everyone when she says she wants to run a race. With the help of…

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  2nd Jan 2024

  Age, Author, B, Blind, Book Type, Childrens, Disability, Fiction, Genre, N, Picture Books, Realistic, Visual Disability

  Black MC, Blind, Childrens, Fiction, Picture Book, Realistic Fiction, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, USA, Visual Disability

• ‘Kami and the Yaks’- Stryer, Andrea Stenn

  Just before the start of a new trek, a Sherpa family discovers that their yaks are missing. Young Kami, anxious to help his brother and father maintain their livelihood, sets off by himself to find the wandering herd. A spunky deaf child who is unable to speak, Kami attempts to summon the yaks with his…

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  24th Dec 2023

  Age, Author, Book Type, Childrens, D, Deaf, Disability, Fiction, Genre, Hearing Disability, Picture Books, Realistic, S

  Animals, Childrens, Deaf, Fiction, Hearing Disability, Nepal, Picture Book, Realistic Fiction, Sherpa MC, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, The Himalayas

• ‘Jodie’s Journey’- Thiele, Colin

  It was the most wonderful moment in Jodie’s life. For her, the whole world seemed to sing with joy. The sky seemed brighter and the sunshine more golden. When Jodie Carpenter won the Greenvale Junior Show Jumping Championship there were tears of happiness in her eyes. She was not to know that she was about…

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  23rd Dec 2023

  Age, Arthritis, Author, Book Type, Childrens, Disability, Fiction, Genre, Juvenile Arthritis, Middle-Grade, Novels, Physical Disability, Realistic, Rheumatoid Arthritis, T, Young Adult

  1980S, Arthritis, Australia, Childrens, Fiction, Horses, Juvenile Arthritis, Middle-Grade, Novel, Physical Disability, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, Young Adult

• ‘I Talk Like a River’- Scott, Jordan

  What if words got stuck in the back of your mouth whenever you tried to speak? What if they never came out the way you wanted them to? Sometimes it takes a change of perspective to get the words flowing. I wake up each morning with the sounds of words all around me. And I…

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  22nd Dec 2023

  Age, Author, Book Type, Childrens, Disability, Fiction, Genre, Picture Books, Realistic, S, Speech Disability, Stutter

  Childrens, Fiction, Picture Book, Poetry, Realistic Fiction, Speech Disability, Stand Alone, Stutter, Submitted Book

• ‘Frankie’s World: A Graphic Novel’- Dooley, Aoife

  From acclaimed Autistic Irish comedian Aoife Dooley comes a fresh and funny debut middle-grade graphic novel about fitting in and standing out. Frankie is different from everyone in her class, and she can’t figure out why. She has trouble concentrating, and her classmates tease her for not having a dad at home. To try to…

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  8th Dec 2023

  Age, Author, Autism, Book Type, Contemporary, D, Disability, Fiction, Genre, Graphic Novels, Middle-Grade, Neurodivergent, Realistic

  Autism, Childrens, Contemporary, Fiction, Frankie’s World, Graphic Novel, Ireland, Middle-Grade, Neurodivergence, Realistic Fiction, Series, Submitted Book

• ‘Follow My Leader’- Garfield, James B.

  A heartwarming story about a boy and his guide dog, for fans of Where the Red Fern Grows and Because of Winn-Dixie . After Jimmy is blinded in an accident with a firecracker, he has to relearn all the things he used to know – how to get dressed, how to find his way around…

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  8th Dec 2023

  Age, Author, Blind, Book Type, Childrens, Disability, Disability Aid User, Fiction, G, Genre, Guide Dog User, Middle-Grade, Novels, Realistic, Visual Disability

  1950s, Blind, Childrens, Fiction, Guide Dog User, Historical, Middle-Grade, Novel, Realistic Fiction, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, USA, Visual Disability

• ‘Everyone Belongs’- Avis, Heather

  A joyful rhyming book that encourages children to not only value all people but to also make room for their differences in order to make a better, brighter, and more beautiful world, from the New York Times bestselling author of Different—A Great Thing to Be! “We know everyone’s different; no two are the same. You…

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  26th Nov 2023

  A, Age, Author, Blind, Book Type, Childrens, Contemporary, Disability, Disability Aid User, Fiction, Genre, M, Mobility Aid User, Picture Books, Realistic, Visual Disability, Wheelchair User

  Blind, Childrens, Contemporary, Fiction, Physical Disability, Picture Book, Realistic Fiction, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, Visual Disability, Wheelchair User

• ‘Different — A Great Thing to Be!’- Avis, Heather

  NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This joyful rhyming book encourages children to value the “different” in all people, leading the way to a kinder world in which the differences in all of us are celebrated and embraced. Macy is a girl who’s a lot like you and me, but she’s also quite different, which is…

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  22nd Nov 2023

  A, Age, Author, Book Type, Childrens, Disability, Down Syndrome, Fiction, Genre, M, Neurodivergent, Picture Books, Realistic

  Childrens, Down Syndrome, Fiction, Genetic Disorder, Picture Book, Realistic Fiction, Stand Alone, Submitted Book

• ‘Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star’- Noakes, Laura

  Cosima Unfortunate has spent all her life at the Home for Unfortunate Girls – a school where any disabled children, or children deemed different, are sent, whether their families want it or not. It is there that she meets her friends – Pearl, Mary and Diya – and they start to practise mini heists involving…

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  26th Oct 2023

  Adventure, Age, Author, Book Type, Childrens, Disability, Fiction, Genre, Historical, Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder, Middle-Grade, N, Novels, Physical Disability, S

  Adventure, Childrens, Fiction, Fictional Setting, Historical, Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder, Illustrated, Middle-Grade, Novel, Physical Disability, Stand Alone, Submitted Book