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1) Amp'd
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After having his left arm amputated due to a car accident, Aaron is forced to return to his boyhood home to recuperate. Disappearing into a fog of pain killers, the only true joy in his life comes from the daily 90-second radio spots of science fun facts and the disembodied voice of Sunny Lee.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Sam Blackman, a Chief Warrant Officer in the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the U.S. military, and Nakayla Robertson must delve into Asheville's rich history--the legacy of the Vanderbilts at the Biltmore estate and of author Thomas Wolfe--to uncover the truth behind the murder of Nakayla's sister. Their only clue--the journal of a twelve-year-old boy.
Author
Series
Summer Harbor novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Riley Callahan's plans to reveal his secret feelings for his best friend are ruined when his life is drastically altered in Afghanistan...Watching the love of his life falling for his brother was enough to send Riley straight to boot camp. But over a year later, he's officially a marine, and Beau and Paige are no longer an item. When Riley's tour in Afghanistan is up, he intends to confess his feelings to Paige and win his best friend's heart once...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
Français
Description
A homeless father and street boxer struggling to support his son and a horribly injured killer whale trainer's lives intersect and form an intensifying bond that fractures the considerable defensive armor each is accustomed to wearing
Ali and his son depart Belgium for Antibes to reside with his sister and her husband. Ali's connection with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, intensifies when she endures a horrific accident.
8) Crossfire
Author
Language
English
Description
Returning to his estranged mother's house for the first time since he joined the army at seventeen, Captain Tom Forsyth discovers that she is being blackmailed and sets out to discover and defeat this hidden enemy using his finely honed military skills. But can he save his mother's reputation and career as "the first lady of British racing", or will he find himself caught in the cross fire?
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In this contemporary retelling of "Beauty and the Beast," a teenaged boy whose hands were amputated in an explosion and a gorgeous girl whose mother has recently died form an instant connection when they meet on their first day as new students.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.
12) No excuses: the true story of a congenital amputee who became a champion in wrestling and in life
Author
Publisher
Regnery Pub
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When Jeff Bauman woke up on Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing his legs, the first thing he did was try to speak. When he realized he couldn't, he asked for a pad and paper and wrote down seven words: "Saw the guy. Looked right at me," setting off one of the biggest manhunts in the country's history. Just thirty hours before, Jeff had been at the finish line of the 2013...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Surviving a shark attack that cost her an arm, Jane, an aspiring artist, reevaluates her ambitions and sense of identity while harboring a crush on her attractive tutor and considering a relationship with a boy from her science class.
15) Shark girl
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the midst of the Vietnam War, a young girl struggles to embrace change in this tender family story for fans of Cynthia Lord and Wendy Maas. Lucy is a practical, orderly person--just like her dad. He taught her to appreciate reason and good sense, instilling in her the same values he learned at medical school. But when he's sent to Vietnam to serve as an Army doctor, Lucy and her mother are forced to move to San Jose, California, to be near their...
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Alastair, a thirteen-year-old who calls himself "Stump" because of his amputated leg, must face a summer at his wealthy but estranged father's beach house in Los Angeles, where he meets his stepmother, falls in love with a teenaged soap opera star, and decides to train for a race with a former Olympic swim coach.
19) Bethany Hamilton
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, a chapter book series about women who spoke up and rose up against the odds--including Bethany Hamilton! Bethany Hamilton learned to surf when she was three years old, and she joined—and won—many surfing competitions as a child. When she was thirteen, while she was surfing one morning, a shark suddenly attacked her and bit off her left arm. Through...
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hamzat, a boy from Chechnya, stepped on a landmine in 2001 when Chechens were at war with Russia, which caused so much damage that his leg had to be amputated and his family had to seek asylum in Britain to escape persecution and war.
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