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Physical Appearance
 

This collection contains materials on the topic of physical appearance from the DIVerse Families bibliography. Physical appearance stories depict people who have had their physical appearance altered or harmed. Individuals can have an altered physical appearance from birth or can have their physical appearance altered from an injury later in life. These stories include topics such as scars, burns, and vitiligo.

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  • Angry Management by Chris Crutcher

    Angry Management

    Chris Crutcher

    Every kid in this group wants to fly. Every kid in this group has too much ballast. Mr. Nak's Angry Management group is a place for misfits. A place for stories. And, man, does this crew have stories. There's Angus Bethune and Sarah Byrnes, who can hide from everyone but each other. Together, they will embark on a road trip full of haunting endings and glimmering beginnings. And Montana West, who doesn't step down from a challenge. Not even when the challenge comes from her adoptive dad, who's leading the school board to censor the article she wrote for the school paper. And straightlaced Matt Miller, who had never been friends with outspoken genius Marcus James. Until one tragic week—a week they'd do anything to change—brings them closer than Matt could have ever imagined.

  • Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White

    Belle Prater's Boy

    Ruth White

    When Woodrow's mother suddenly disappears, he moves to his grandparents' home in a small Virginia town where he befriends his cousin and together they find the strength to face the terrible losses and fears in their lives. Everyone in Coal Station, Virginia, has a theory about what happened to Belle Prater, but twelve-year-old Gypsy wants the facts, and when her cousin Woodrow, Aunt Belle's son moves next door, she has her chance.

  • Camo Girl by Kekla Magoon

    Camo Girl

    Kekla Magoon

    Ella, a biracial girl with a patchy and uneven skin tone, and her friend Z, a boy who is very different, have been on the bottom of the social order at Caldera Junior High School in Las Vegas, but when the only other African-American student enters their sixth grade class, Ella longs to be friends with him and join the popular group, but does not want to leave Z all alone.

  • Dream of Night by Heather Henson

    Dream of Night

    Heather Henson

    Told from their different points of view, twelve-year-old Shiloh, a troubled foster child, Dream of Night, an abused former racehorse, and Jess, a woman who cares for both, find healing by helping one another through their pain.

  • For a Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig

    For a Muse of Fire

    Heidi Heilig

    Jetta, a teen who possesses secret, forbidden powers, must gain access to a hidden spring and negotiate a world roiling with intrigue and the beginnings of war.

  • Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow

    Girl in Pieces

    Kathleen Glasgow

    As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.

  • Golden Boy by Tara Sullivan

    Golden Boy

    Tara Sullivan

    Light eyes, yellow hair and white skin-- Habo is an albino, strange and alone. His father, unable to accept Habo, abandons the family. When they are forced from their small Tanzanian village, Habo knows he is to blame. The family seeks refuge with an aunt in Mwanza....

  • Half a Man by Michael Morpurgo

    Half a Man

    Michael Morpurgo

    From a young age, Michael was both fascinated by and afraid of his grandfather. Grandpa’s ship was torpedoed during the Second World War, leaving him with terrible burns. Every time he came to stay, Michael was warned by his mother that he must not stare, he must not make too much noise, he must not ask Grandpa any questions about his past. As he grows older, Michael stays with his grandfather during the summer holidays and learns the story behind Grandpa’s injuries, finally getting to know the real man behind the solemn figure from his childhood. Michael can see beyond the burns, and this gives him the power to begin healing scars that have divided his family for so long.

  • Heroes by Robert Cormier

    Heroes

    Robert Cormier

    After serving in the United States Army in World War II and having his face blown off by a grenade, Francis, a young soldier, returns home hoping to find--and kill--the former childhood hero he feels betrayed him.

  • How it Feels to Live with a Physical Disability by Jill Krementz

    How it Feels to Live with a Physical Disability

    Jill Krementz

    Reveals, through photographs and interviews, the indomitable spirit and strength of children living with such physical disabilities as blindness, cerebral palsy, paralysis, and missing limbs.

  • Lovely by Jess Hong

    Lovely

    Jess Hong

    Big, small, curly, straight, loud, quiet, smooth, wrinkly. Lovely explores a world of differences that all add up to the same thing: we are all lovely!

  • Samurai Kids 1: White Crane by Sandy Fussell

    Samurai Kids 1: White Crane

    Sandy Fussell

    Even though he has only one leg, Niya Moto is studying to be a samurai, and his five fellow-students are similarly burdened, but sensei Ki-Yaga, an ancient but legendary warrior, teaches them not only physical skills but mental and spiritual ones as well, so that they are well-equipped to face their most formidable opponents at the annual Samurai Games.

  • Samurai Kids 2: Owl Ninja by Sandy Fussell

    Samurai Kids 2: Owl Ninja

    Sandy Fussell

    Sensei Ki-yaga leads Niya and the other students of the Cockroach Ryu on a journey to beg the feudal Emperor to stop war from breaking out between the mountain ryus, putting to the test the firm friendship and unusual skills of these physically-disabled samurai-in-training.

  • Stumpkin by Lucy Ruth Cummins

    Stumpkin

    Lucy Ruth Cummins

    A stemless pumpkin that yearns to be a Halloween jack-o-lantern watches sadly as all of the other pumpkins in the shop are chosen.

  • The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

    The Night Diary

    Veera Hiranandani

    It's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and hundreds of thousands are killed crossing borders. Half-Muslim, half-Hindu twelve-year-old Nisha doesn't know where she belongs, or what her country is anymore. When Papa decides it's too dangerous to stay in what is now Pakistan, Nisha and her family become refugees and embark first by train but later on foot to reach her new home. The journey is long, difficult, and dangerous, and after losing her mother as a baby, Nisha can't imagine losing her homeland, too. But even if her country has been ripped apart, Nisha still believes in the possibility of putting herself back together.

  • The Prince Who Was Just Himself by Silke Schnee

    The Prince Who Was Just Himself

    Silke Schnee

    Lacking the athletic and reading skills of his older brothers, Prince Noah uses love and compassion to save the kingdom from the Black Knight.

  • The Skin I'm In by Sharon Flake

    The Skin I'm In

    Sharon Flake

    Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.

  • The Stranger and the Red Rooster / El forastero y el gallo rojo by Víctor Villaseñor and Gabriela Baeza Ventura

    The Stranger and the Red Rooster / El forastero y el gallo rojo

    Víctor Villaseñor and Gabriela Baeza Ventura

    When a tall, thin stranger with a horribly scarred face comes to Carlbad, California, everyone is afraid of him until he and his big red rooster make them laugh.

  • Trouper by Meg Kearney

    Trouper

    Meg Kearney

    Trooper, a three-legged dog, remembers his life as a stray, before he was adopted.

  • We're All Wonders by R. J. Palacio

    We're All Wonders

    R. J. Palacio

    Augie enjoys the company of his dog, Daisy, and using his imagination, but painfully endures the taunts of his peers because of his facial deformity.

  • Wonder by R. J. Palacio

    Wonder

    R. J. Palacio

    Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.

 
 
 

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