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My own blood : a memoir / by Bristowe, Ashley,author.;
"When their second child, Alexander, is diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder, doctors tell Ashley Bristowe and her husband that the boy won't walk, or even talk--that he is profoundly disabled. Stunned and reeling, Ashley researches a disorder so new it's just been named--Kleefstra Syndrome--and she finds little hope and a maze of obstacles. Then she comes across the US-based 'Institutes, ' which have been working to improve the lives of brain-injured children for decades. Recruiting volunteers, organizing therapy, juggling a million tests and appointments, even fundraising as the family falls deep into debt, Ashley devotes years of 24/7 effort to running an impossibly rigorous diet and therapy programme for their son with the hope of saving his life, and her own. The ending is happy: he will never be a 'normal' boy, but Alexander talks, he walks, he swims, he plays the piano (badly) and he goes to school. This victory isn't clean and it's far from pretty; the personal toll on Ashley is devastating. 'It takes a village, ' people say, but too much of their village is uncomfortable with her son's difference, the therapy regimen's demands and the family's bottomless need. The health and provincial services bureaucracy set them a maddening set of hoops to jump through, showing how disabled children and their families languish because of criminally low expectations about what can be done to help. My Own Blood is an uplifting story, but it never shies away from the devastating impact of a baby that science couldn't predict and medicine couldn't help. It's the story of a woman who lost everything she'd once been--a professional, an optimist, a joker, a capable adult--in sacrifice to her son. An honest account of a woman's life turned upside down."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Bristowe, Ashley; Bristowe, Ashley.; Children with disabilities; Children with disabilities; Children with disabilities; Children with disabilities; Families.; Mothers of children with disabilities; Parents of children with disabilities;
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Meranda and the legend of the lake / by Mahoney, Meagan.;
Meranda and her family visit Cape Breton, Nova Scotia when her great-uncle dies. Soon, questions begin to surface, and Meranda decides to investigate.LSC
Subjects: Children with disabilities; Family secrets; Families;
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Peppa's new friend / by Petranek, Michael.; Astley, Neville.; Baker, Mark,1959-;
Appeals to Pre-K-1st graders.Reading level grade 1.3+.LSC
Subjects: Radio and television novels.; Peppa Pig (Fictitious character); Swine; Children with disabilities; Friendship in children; Schools;
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A sky-blue bench / by Rahman, Bahram,1984-; Collins, Peggy,1975-;
Young Aria returns to school after recovering from an accident and being fitted with a prosthetic leg, but the school has no furniture and sitting on the floor is too painful. She finds a way to build her own bench, surprising and inspiring her classmates. Includes a sensitive author's note describing the author's experience growing up in Afghanistan during the civil war and the legacy of landmines.LSC
Subjects: Artificial legs; Children with disabilities; Resilience (Personality trait); Schools;
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The secret garden [videorecording] / by Egerickx, Dixie,2005-actor.; Firth, Colin,1960-actor.; Hayhurst, Edan,actor.; Munden, Marc,film director.; Walters, Julie,1950-actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Burnett, Frances Hodgson,1849-1924.Secret garden.; STX Entertainment,production company.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Dixie Egerickx, Colin Firth, Julie Walters, Edan Hayhurst, Amir Wilson, Isis Davis, Maeve Dermody.Mary Lennox is a prickly and unloved ten-year-old girl, born in India to wealthy British parents. When they suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. There, she begins to uncover many family secrets, particularly after meeting her sickly cousin Colin, who has been shut away in a wing of the house. Together, these two damaged, slightly misfit children heal each other through their discovery of a wondrous secret garden.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements and some mild peril.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 DVS.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Children's films.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Children of the rich; Children with disabilities; Gardens; Grief; Friendship in children; Orphans;
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The secret garden [videorecording] / by Egerickx, Dixie,2005-actor.; Firth, Colin,1960-actor.; Hayhurst, Edan,actor.; Munden, Marc,film director.; Walters, Julie,1950-actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Burnett, Frances Hodgson,1849-1924.Secret garden.; STX Entertainment,production company.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Dixie Egerickx, Colin Firth, Julie Walters, Edan Hayhurst, Amir Wilson, Isis Davis, Maeve Dermody.Mary Lennox is a prickly and unloved ten-year-old girl, born in India to wealthy British parents. When they suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. There, she begins to uncover many family secrets, particularly after meeting her sickly cousin Colin, who has been shut away in a wing of the house. Together, these two damaged, slightly misfit children heal each other through their discovery of a wondrous secret garden.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements and some mild peril.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, DTS-HD Digital surround 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 DVS.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Children's films.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Children of the rich; Children with disabilities; Gardens; Grief; Friendship in children; Orphans;
For private home use only.
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Gut reaction / by Larson, Kirby.; Wyatt, Quinn.;
Tess Medina is dealing with the loss of her beloved father, a new school, and the troubling fact that the thing she enjoys most in life, baking, seems to be making her increasingly ill--something she is trying to hide from everybody.
Subjects: Children with disabilities; Crohn's disease; Grief; Baking; Fathers and daughters;
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The storm runner / by Cervantes, Jennifer.;
To prevent the Mayan gods from battling each other and destroying the world, thirteen-year-old Zane must unravel an ancient prophecy, stop an evil god, and discover how the physical disability that makes him reliant on a cane also connects him to his father and his ancestry.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Children with disabilities; Fathers and sons; Prophecy; Maya gods; Maya mythology;
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Secondhand wishes / by Staniszewski, Anna.;
Middle-schooler Lexi has always tried to keep the chaos under control by keeping to a carefully planned schedule, but today things have just gone wrong: her little brother is back in the hospital because of his twisted-up insides, she is late for school, and her best friend Cassa is hanging out with the new girl; but when she finds a bag of four wishing stones in the antique shop and wishes that Cassa would stop talking to Marina, and it actually happens...she begins to believe in the magic--and mostly her wishes work, just not quite as anticipated, and suddenly she has new levels of chaos to deal with.LSC
Subjects: Magic; Wishes; Brothers and sisters; Children with disabilities; Best friends; Responsibility;
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My name is Blessing / by Walters, Eric,1957-; Fernandes, Eugenie,1943-;
With the help of his grandmother and a special school teacher, a young Kenyan boy with a disability learns to see himself as a blessing.LSC
Subjects: Children; Children with disabilities; Grandmothers; Teachers; Schools; Orphanages;
© c2013., Tundra Books,
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