Most of these "handicap" books are in your library! (If can't find them, you can order them by clicking the titles below.) They represent every genre! Check out two or three copies of each for your class. Let students choose their favorites and form literature groups. Give them copies of the unit to guide them to find the special treasure inside each book, to develop valuable skills, to problem solve, and to help them work together as a group! Click on each title for a summary and internet links to terrific extensions!

Here are just a few books with Kids Wings units about kids with problems that might interest your students include:
All the Way Home by Patricia Giff (polio and loss of home)
Alvin Ho, Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things by Lenore Look (selective mutism, fears...yet a funny book)
Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson (spreading colds and flu)
The Big House by Carolyn Coman (parents in prison)
Bud Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (homelessness in the Great Depression)
Earthquake Terror, by Peg Kehret (little sister is a paraplegic)
Firegirl by Tony Abbot (girl with severe burns)
Good Luck, Mrs. K by Louise Borden (teacher with cancer)
The Graduation of Jake Moon by Barbara Park (Alzheimers)
The Hero of Bremen by Margaret Hodges PLUS 3 other Heroes with Handicaps, in Downloads
Ida B by Katharine Hannigan (cancer)
The Middle of Somewhere by J. B. Chaeney (ADHD)
One-Handed Catch by Mary Jane Ault (loss of a hand)
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper (cerebral palsy)
Phineas Gage, A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science
by John Fleischman (brain damage)
Roxie and the Hooligans by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (victim of bullying)
Rules by Cynthia Lord (autism)
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (poverty)
Small Steps The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret, Downloads (polio)
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo (giftedness, being different)
The Thing About Georgie by Lisa Graff (4th grader is a dwarf)
Toby and the Phantoms of the Fourth Grade by Art Wallace (giftedness, failure to fit in)
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt (gross obesity)