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King for a Day (2014)
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At Lahore's Basant festival, Malik is out to win a rooftop kite-flying contest. He uses a wheelchair and directs his siblings from the roof while his kite, Falcon, takes on the neighborhood bully's. The fun is in seeing how his plan holds up once the kites are in the air.
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A Little Like Magic
A girl who uses a power wheelchair agrees to try an ice festival, then loses the toy horse she brought along. The next night she returns and sees what the carvers made while she was away. Choose it for the pleasure of going back to a place that turns out to have more in store.
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Prince Noah and the School Pirates (A Prince Noah Book) (2016)
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In Noah's kingdom, school takes place aboard sailing ships. When a storm drives the ships into pirate waters, Noah, a prince with Down syndrome, helps his classmates escape. The adventure depends on what the children bring to the rescue once the usual school divisions break down.
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Ali and the Sea Stars (2022)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Ali uses a wheelchair and has a whole show to put on: a boardwalk production of Peter Pan with her friends. A sudden rainstorm ruins the cardboard set, so she improvises with what she can find at the beach. Read it for the moment when a director has to change the plan and keep everyone playing.
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My City Speaks (2021)
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A girl with a visual impairment takes readers around her city with her dad. She finds sounds and smells worth noticing at the market and community garden, then adds a sound of her own by playing her violin in the park. Ashley Barron's cut-paper pictures leave room for the girl's way of describing each stop.
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What Happened to You? (2018)
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Joe has one leg and wants the other kids to join his pirate game. They keep interrupting to guess what happened to his leg, while Joe has an imaginary adventure of his own going on. Watch for the moment they take his lead and get on with the game.
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A Day with No Words
Aidan answers his mom's invitation to the park with the pictures on his communication tablet. Once there, he spins in the grass and decides when he's had enough. The outing stays close to this nonspeaking autistic child's point of view, including the choices he gets to make along the way.
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My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay (2015)
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When Zulay's first-grade class picks activities for Field Day, she chooses to run a race. Zulay is blind and prepares for the run with help from her aide and her friends. The racing scene gives the story a payoff that follows from a goal Zulay set herself.
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A Sky-Blue Bench
Aria wants to learn, but sitting on her Afghan classroom's hard floor is painful with her new prosthetic leg. She gathers materials and seeks advice from a carpenter in the old city to build a bench. Here the adventure is a project Aria sets in motion, with places to go, materials to find, and a color to choose.
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My Brother Otto and the Birthday Party
Crow siblings Piper and Otto are excited to go to Ruthie's birthday party. Otto and Ruthie are both autistic, and Piper notices the choices they make in a busy room, including using headphones to muffle the noise. It suits a child who wants to see how different guests find ways to join a celebration.
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I Will Dance (2020)
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Eva, who has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, wants to dance. In a class for dancers with different ways of moving, she starts small and finds ways to make shapes with the group. The class works toward a performance, and Julianna Swaney's pictures make the movement easy to follow.
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This Beach Is Loud! (2019)
8.0/10on Open Library
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A boy sets off for the beach with his dad, only to find that the noise, crowds, and sand feel like too much all at once. His dad helps him pause when he needs to, and the afternoon can continue. The pictures let children follow how the same beach feels different as the boy's sensory overload builds.
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Sam's Super Seats (2022)
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Sam has cerebral palsy, a favorite couch named for Misty Copeland, and a back-to-school shopping trip with friends. The wooden bench at the mall is less comfortable than Misty, which sets her thinking about what a better public seat might look like. The try-ons and jokes are as much a part of the outing as the breaks.
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Pedro and the Octopus
Pedro is wary of the beach after his sister tells him an octopus might grab him. Once there, he uses his long white cane on the sand, collects shells, and plays in the waves. Ann Cunningham's raised illustrations and the print and Braille text make this a beach story children can explore with their hands.
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I Talk Like a River (2020)
10.0/10on Open Library
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After a hard day of speaking at school, a boy who stutters walks to the river with his father. There he watches the water change pace and finds something that feels like his own speech. Sydney Smith's illustrations move with the boy from the classroom into a landscape he can think with.
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The pirate of kindergarten (2010)
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Ginny sees two sets of chairs at reading circle and two sets of words on the page. When she gets an eye patch, she takes on the role of classroom pirate. Lynne Avril's illustrations let a reader see what Ginny is seeing as she goes about running, reading, and making things with scissors.
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Can Bears Ski? (2020)
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Little Bear keeps hearing what sounds like a question about skiing, and he feels vibrations other characters pay little attention to. A visit to an audiologist puts some of those clues together and brings hearing aids into his everyday life. This is a quiet mystery about a Deaf character figuring out why the world around him sounds the way it does.
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