titles featuring special needs characters
Young Adult
Up Molasses Mountain
– Julie Baker
Damage – A.M. Jenkins
Never So Green – Tim Johnston
Stoner & Spaz – Ron Koertge
Blind Sighted – Peter Moore
Juvenile Fiction
Eddie's Blue Winged Dragon
– C.S. Adler
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Summer of the Swans – Betsy Byars
Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You – Barthe DeClements
Granny Torrelli Makes Soup – Sharon Creech
What Would Joey Do? – Jack Gantos
On Being Sarah – Elizabeth Helfman
Chang and the Bamboo Flute – Elizabeth Starr Hill
Lumber Camp Library – Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
Gathering Blue – Lois Lowry
Deaf Child Crossing – Marlee Matlin
Every Living Thing: Stories – Cynthia Rylant
Picture Books
We Go In a Circle – Peggy Perry Anderson
Goose's Story – Cari Best
Big Brother Dustin – Alden R. Carter
Dancing Miranda – Diane De Anda
Sammy Wakes His Dad – Chip Emmons
Keeping Up with Roo – Sharlee Glenn
Trudi & Pia – Ursula Hegi
Featherless – Juan Felipe Herrera
A Very Special Critter – Gina & Mercer Mayer
Moses Goes to the Circus – Isaac Millman
Zoom! – Robert Munsch
My Buddy – Audrey Osofsky
Where's Chimpy? – Berniece Rabe
All Kinds of Friends, Even Green! – Ellen B. Senisi
Babu's Song – Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen
The Printer – Myron Uhlberg
My Friend Isabelle – Eliza Woloson
Nonfiction
Sesame Street Sign Language Fun
– Linda Bove
Cindy, a Hearing Ear Dog – Patricia Curtis
Panda: A Guide Horse for Ann – Rosanna Hansen
A Show of Hands: Say It in Sign Language – Mary Beth Sullivan & Linda Bourke
Simple Signs – Cindy Wheeler
titles last updated
August 28, 2008
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