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Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The moving story of a dancer who refusts to give up after losing her leg. Veda, a classical dance prodigy in Inida, lives and breathes dance--so when an accident leaves her a below-knee amputee, her dreams are shattered. For a girl who's grown used to receiving applause for her dance prowess and flexibility, adjusting to a prosthetic leg is painful and humbling. But Veda refuses to let her diasbility rob her of her dreams, and she starts all over...
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Publisher
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
During the years he spends in a neural health facility, Pat Peoples formulates a theory about silver linings: he believes his life is a movie produced by God, his mission is to become physically fit and emotionally supportive, and his happy ending will be the return of his estranged wife, Nikki. When Pat goes to live with his parents, everything seems changed: no one will talk to him about Nikki; his old friends are saddled with families; the Philadelphia...
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When a horrific accident shatters her dreams of becoming a world class dancer, Riley Adams clings to her faith, determined to recover in time for the national competition. Refusing to let rival dance student Alea's merciless teasing for Riley's Christian beliefs stand in her way, Riley fights to regain mobility. When the college student discovers equine therapy, she develops a special bond with a beautiful mare named Grace and finds an unexpected...
6) Turning
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Before the "accident" Genie was an aspiring ballerina, a star pupil at her exclusive New York dance school, now she is a bitter teenager, permanently confined to a wheelchair, shutting herself off from her friends, her beloved teacher, and even her mother; but at physical therapy she meets Kyle, a gymnast whose traumatic brain injury has landed him in therapy--and through their growing friendship Genie realizes that she has to confront the things...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After winning her local tennis club tournament, Scarlett Thomas, 41-year-old novelist, decided to dedicate a year of her life to tennis. At 12, Scarlett discovered her father was not the punk photographer who'd brought her up, but was in fact the man she previously knew as her godfather. At 14, she was sent to Mexico to connect with her terrifying grandmother. She was sent to a conservative boarding school in the middle of nowhere, her only link...
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