Delineates the development of sports for the physically handicapped using wheelchairs and includes the personal experiences of many paraplegics and quadriplegics.

Wheelchair Champions: A History of Wheelchair Sports

Children's Books

Savitz, Harriet May

Activities, Crafts & Games

John Day Co.

This would be exciting and informative enough if it simply described the growth of organized sports for the handicapped or described sports careers of men and women who are paraplegics and it does. What it adds is a great deal of information about attitudes toward the handicapped and facts about their capabilities.-Bulletin Center for Children's Books"It is a story of hope for the newly injured and their families as one reads of the accomplishment of others."-Catholic Library World"The history of wheelchair sports in the U.S. is well told in Wheelchair Champions."-Interracial Books for Children

Thomas Y. Crowell Company

After Candy Miller's ski jacket is stolen from her locker, she becomes angry and starts a campaign to return discipline to her high school

If You Can't Be The Sun, Be A Star

Literature & Fiction

Signet Vista Books

After Samantha is told that she cannot enter the marathon because she is confined to a wheelchair, she begins to realize why Johnny Jay, another wheelchair student, is determined to fight for what he wants

Run, Don't Walk: A Novel

Teen & Young Adult

Franklin Watts

Frankie befriends cat-lover Mrs. Beasley, and when the woman falls ill, Frankie knows he must find a home for her faithful felines

The Cats Nobody Wanted

Animals

Apple

Loving her aging canine companion, Jessie, Laurie Moss, a young blind girl, fears that her father will have the ill dog put to sleep, until the vet recommends an expensive new medicine that Laurie must find some way to afford. Original.

A Girl's Best Friend

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 consternation, Sam refuses to help in his cause.To Sams 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.

Run, Don't Walk

Romance

Contemporary

iUniverse

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

A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND

Skip loves swimming in the ocean. It's the perfect place to sort things out. Since his father moved away, he and his mom have been taking care of their big old boardinghouse alone. A whole summer of changing light bulbs and running errands for the tourists. Then skip meets swimmer. The big friendly dog swims with him every morning. Swimmer doesn't have an owner and Skip wants him. He's the only friend Skip has had all summer. But Skip can't take Swimmer home because his mom won't let him have a pet at the house. One thing is certain, though. Skip is not going to desert his dog. He needs Swimmer just as much as Swimmer needs him.

SWIMMER: Everyone Needs a Best Friend

WHEELCHAIR CHAMPIONS: A History of Wheelchair Sports

Sports & Outdoors

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Wheelchair Champions: A History of Wheelchair Sports

Wheelchair Champions: A History of Wheelchair Sports

If You Can't Be The Sun, Be A Star

Run, Don't Walk: A Novel

The Cats Nobody Wanted

A Girl's Best Friend

Run, Don't Walk

A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND

SWIMMER: Everyone Needs a Best Friend

WHEELCHAIR CHAMPIONS: A History of Wheelchair Sports