They call Mrs. Beasley the cat lady because she takes in all kinds of stray cats and finds homes for them. Sometimes the cats get loose and run through people's yards. That makes her neighbors mad. No one but Frankie seems to see that Mrs. Beasley is...
"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 d...
The world from a wheelchair can be grim and forbidding. Harriet Mary Savit's novel focuses on a group of young people who, though confined to wheelchairs, meet the challenge of leading full, productive lives -- sometimes in the face of overwhelming...
Two years after the motorcycle accident which left Rennie in a whleechair for the rest of her life, she succeeds in getting admitted to Ridge High School. But, in addition to having to adjust to being back in the mainstream, Rennie is striving to be ...
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 Johnnys cons...
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 p...
Seventeen-year-old Lou walks into his bedroom one day and decides he doesn't want to leave. With four years of college looming ahead, a world out of control, and his mom about to sell SeaView, the boarding house they own and live in, he wants to avoi...