Description |
288 pages : portraits ; 24 cm |
Series |
Extraordinary people.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and index. |
Contents |
John Milton -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Thaddeus Stevens -- Louis Braille -- Harriet Tubman -- John Wesley Powell -- Thomas Edison --Juliette Gordon Low -- Helen Keller -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Horace Pippin -- Dorothea Lange -- Frida Kahlo -- Sir Douglas Bader -- Jacobus tenBroek -- Harold Russell -- The fight for disability rights legislation -- Bill Veeck -- Alicia Alonso -- Roy Campanella -- Robert Dole -- Daniel Inouye -- John Langston Gwaltney -- Christy Brown -- Beverly Butler --Audre Lorde -- Ed Roberts -- Henry Kisor -- Wilma Rudolph -- The challenge of sports -- Stephen Hawking -- I. King Jordan -- Judi Chamberlin -- Wilma Mankiller -- Itzhak Perlman -- Patty Duke -- Harilyn Rousso -- For the disabled, of the disabled -- Temple Grandin -- Judy Heumann -- Stevie Wonder -- John Callahan -- The right to live, the right to die -- Susan Nussbaum -- John Hockenberry -- Tom Cruise -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee --Chris Burke -- Disabled students in the mainstream -- Marlee Matlin --Jean Driscoll -- Jim Abbott -- Heather Whitestone -- To find a way or to make one : technological aids for the disabled. |
Summary |
Profiles seven dozen people throughout history with various physical or mental disabilities. Additional articles provide historical background on the disability rights movement. |
Study Program |
Accelerated Reader UG 8.4 13 42991 |
Note |
Accelerated Reader UG 8.4 13 42991 |
Subject |
People with disabilities -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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People with disabilities -- Juvenile literature.
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Genre |
Biographies.
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Added Author |
Quinlan, Kathryn A.
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ISBN |
0516200216 (lib. bdg.) |
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