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Tag: Disability
Wearable Technologies Are Giving Us Superpowers—I’m Hopeful, but Also Worried; a guest post by author Elaine Kachala
Author Elaine Kachala talks about her nonfiction title which explores wearable technology
Sick Kids in Love: A Look at Chronic Illness in the Life of Teens
Sick Kids in Love features two teens living their lives with chronic illness.
When Books Are The Things That Save You, a guest post by Cindy Baldwin
When I was thirteen, my parents drove me to the University of North Carolina pediatric hospital and checked me in. I had a PICC line—a peripherally inserted central catheter—put in my left arm and a host of super-strength antibiotics pumped through it. We didn’t know when I’d be coming home. And, hardest of all for […]
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YA A to Z: Telling a Different Amputee Story, a guest post by Mindy Rhiger
It’s the second week of January, which means we’re discussing the Letter A in YA A to Z. Today we are talking about amputees with the librarian and blogger Mindy Rhiger You can find out more about YA A to Z here. Perhaps I shouldn’t have chosen to read Phantom Limbs so quickly after reading Shark Girl. But […]
Book Review: Piper by Jay Asher, Jessica Freeburg, and Jeff Stokely
Publisher’s description Long ago, in a small village in the middle of a deep, dark forest, there lived a lonely, deaf girl named Maggie. Shunned by her village because of her disability, her only comfort comes from her vivid imagination. Maggie has a gift for inventing stories and dreams of one day finding her fairy-tale […]
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