Results for “school”

Ages 3–8

Joan Fassler

Though he enjoys life with his family and attends school, Howie, a child with cerebral palsy, wants more than anything else to be able to move his wheelchair by himself.

Ages 3–8

Elizabeth Laird

Jungle school by Elizabeth Laird — a thoughtfully chosen inclusive book for young readers.

Ages 3–8

Patricia Polacco

Inspired by a teacher who believes each of them is a genius, a class of special-needs students invents something that could convince the whole school they are justifiably proud to be "Junkyard Wonders."

Ages 3–8

Kathy Hoopmann

Full of mystery and intrigue, this graphic novel version of Kathy Hoopmann's best-selling adventure follows Ben, a boy with Asperger syndrome (AS). When Ben and his friend Andy discover an old blue bottle in the school yard, little do they know of the mysterious forces they are about to unleash.

Ages 3–8

Emily Arnold McCully

Alice Cogswell was a bright and curious child and a quick learner. She also couldn't hear. And, unfortunately, in the early nineteenth century in America, there was no way to teach deaf children. One day, though, an equally curious young man named Thomas Gallaudet, Alice's neighbor, senses Alice's intelligence and agrees to find a way to teach her. Gallaudet's interest in young Alice carries him across the ocean and back and eventually inspires him to create the nation's first school for the deaf, thus improving young Alice's life and the lives of generations of young, deaf students to come.

Ages 3–8

Jen Bryant

Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet—a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used by the blind community today.

Ages 3–8

L. King Pérez

Chico, a child of migrant farmworkers, starts yet another new school in a grape-growing town and finds he can stand up for himself. Pura Belpré Honor.

Ages 3–8

Duncan Tonatiuh

Sylvia Mendez is turned away from the neighborhood school because she is Mexican American. Her family takes the fight to court — years before Brown v. Board. Pura Belpré Honor.

Ages 3–8

Daniel W. Vandever

At a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, Holden would rather imagine than march in a straight line. Navajo. Salina Bookshelf.