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Connie wrote: "Would non fiction books work for this category as well?"Yes, indeed it would.
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Stephanie's Character with Disability/Handicap/Illness Books:1. Bone Gap by Laura Ruby - face blindness (prosopagnosia)
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1)The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 14/01/17 (Asperger's Syndrome)
2)Impulse by Ellen Hopkins 30/01/17 (mental illness)
3)The Story of My Life by Helen Keller 05/02/17 (deaf, blind)
4)Just Like Other Daughters by Colleen Faulkner 12/10/17 (Down Syndrome)
5)The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives bytheresa brown, RN 02/11/17 (cancer)
Melk's Character with a Disability . . .1) The Mysterious Howling - 1/2/17 - feral children
2) Ghosts - 1/16/17 - cystic fibrosis
Kaitlin's Character with Disability/Handicap/Illness Books:1.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Asperger's Syndrome)
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Veronique's Character with Disability / Handicap / Illness Books:1. Kids of Appetite by David Arnold - Moebius Syndrom / cancer / mental illness
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Wanda's Character with a Disability, Handicap, or Illness:1.Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison
2. Midnight by Dean Koontz (disabled Vietnam veteran in wheelchair)
3. Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith amputee (reread/audio)
4. Wonder by R.J. Palacio
5. Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz xeroderma pigmentosum
Susan's Character with Disability/Handicap/Illness Books:1. Faceless Killers (cancer)
2. A Day in a Medieval City (leprosy, plague, various disabilities)
3. Devil Bones (bipolar disorder)
4. Career of Evil (amputee)
5. The Ice Queen (cancer, permanent aftereffects of being struck by lightning)
Sharon's Character with a Disability, Handicap, or Illness:1. Wonder
2. Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories
3. The Silkworm
4. Career of Evil
1. Reasons She Goes to the Woods (mental illness)2. Of Mice And Men (learning disabilities)
3. Spitfire Women of World War II (a few of the pilots had physical handicaps/disabilities)
4. Elysium Dreams (the investigation team have various mental illnesses as does the serial killer)
5. El Deafo (the lead character becomes deaf at the age of 4)
Letitia's Character with a disability, illness, or handicap. 1. Flowers for Algernon January 30, 2017
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1. The Year We Fell Down by Sarina Bowen (paralysis)
2. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman (Alzheimer's)
3. Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig (autism)
4. Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (amputated limb)
5. Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson (anorexia)
2017 - Character with a Disability, Handicap, or Illness1. Out of My Mind
2. The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband by David Finch
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Cathy's - Character with a Disability, Handicap, or IllnessComplete
1. Heartsight by Kay Springsteen Blindness, PTSD and Downs Symdrome
2. Without Words by Ellen O'Connell mute character
3. Tides of Honour by Genevieve Graham Missing Limbs, PTSD, Blindness, Catastrophic deaths. This one has it all!
4. A Charm of Finches by Suanne Laqueur - aftermath of a violent sexual attack & PTSD
5. The Year We Fell Down by Sarina Bowen partial paralysis
Beth's disability, handicap, illness books1. The Tragedy Paper by Elizabeth LaBan
2. Me & Earl & the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
3. Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
4. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson
5. Skinny by Donna Cooner
Lori's Disability, handicap or illness books1. Orphan #8 - by Kim van Alkemade
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1. The Invisible Man
2. Lady Chatterley's Lover
3. Tender Is the Night
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5. The Virgin Suicides
Stacee's Books with Character with Disability, Illness, etc.1-Something Like Normal by Trish Doller
2-Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
3- Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories by R.J. Palacio
4- There Will Be Lies by Nick Lake
5- The Memory of Light by Francis X. Stork
The Bookworm Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
Career of Evil (other topics)The Virgin Suicides (other topics)
Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride & Prejudice (other topics)
The Silkworm (other topics)
The Year We Fell Down (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Sarina Bowen (other topics)Laurie Halse Anderson (other topics)
Theresa Brown (other topics)
Suanne Laqueur (other topics)
David Finch (other topics)
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Read up to 5 books that have a character with a disability, handicap or illness.
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