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"Are you afraid?" Making friends isn't easy, Allan realizes, especially when you're the new kid in town. Since moving to Ocean View, Allan has spent most of his time alone, out at Silver Lake, watching the geese and the beautiful, graceful white ducks he calls snowbirds. So Allan is grateful when Tony and Pete let him hang out with them. Until the day they start throwing rocks at the birds, and daring Allan to hit one. "What are you, afraid?" they tease. "Maybe we just won't call you anymore. You're scared to do anything." Allan wants to belong, but will he have to attack the birds to prove himself? And is it worth it?--Back cover.
Frankie finds a friend in the cat lady, Mrs. Beasley. She takes in every stray cat she finds. When Mrs. Beasley is confined to a hospital, Frankie knows he must find homes for the cats.
The last thing Samantha wanted when she entered Scot High School was to be noticed. On the other hand, Johnny Jay, another wheelchair student at Scot, was a fighter, battling to obtain accessible school washrooms for the both of them. To Johnny’s consternation, Sam refuses to help in his cause. To Sam’s astonishment, the marathon committee refuses her entrance in a 26-mile marathon because of her wheelchair. It was only then that she began to see the frustrations Johnny felt. She was rudely bolted out of her dream world and into action.
This book addresses children's worries with humor and imagination, as hilarious scenarios teach kids the use of perspective and the art of creative problem-solving.
"The book shows how, for those who are blind, attitudes about blindness play an important part in the success of everything in life. Laurie has to work through her own attitudes about herself when others treat her differently because she is blind. ...I plan to give each of my nieces a copy of the book for Christmas. It will help the younger members of our family grow up with a better philosophy about blind people." --Peggy Chong - Minnesota Bulletin- a quarterly publication of the National Federation of the Blind of Minnesota Reprinted in Future Reflections, The National Federation of the Blind Magazine for Parents of Blind Children
Delineates the development of sports for the physically handicapped using wheelchairs and includes the personal experiences of many paraplegics and quadriplegics.
A woman shares imaginative stories and gifts—all from her big, old story blanket—in this charmingly illustrated tale of community, friendship, and kindness. Babba Zarrah lives in a tiny village in the snow-covered mountains, and the children love to visit her. They settle down on her big, old story blanket and listen to her imaginative tales. One day, Babba Zarrah notices that Nikolai needs new socks, but she has no yarn. "Every question has an answer," Babba Zarrah tells herself, "I just have to find it." So after the children leave, she unravels part of her story blanket and knits him some nice warm socks. As villagers start receiving mysterious gifts to keep them warm, the story blank...
During a parade in Jerusalem, Marcus is asked by soldiers to carry a pail of nails to aid them in nailing to a cross a man whom Marcus recognizes as a kind and peaceable fisherman who is his friend.
Chosen as one of the most populor young adult books in the University of Iowas's Books for Young Adults Book Poll. Kirkus said, "We cheer a major vicotor...stirs a awareness of wheelchair occupants' problems and of the wider implications of the world handicapped.
This book, designed for kids ages 6-10, features true, character-building stories for kids to enjoy alone or with their parents.