The Road We've Shared

Jessy feels left out when her sister brings a friend home to tea. Worse still, the friend isn’t used to people who have Down’s Syndrome, like Jessy. A friend of her own is what Jessy wants, and one turns up in an…

Billy, who has Down’s Syndrome, has always been close to his older brother Andrew. But things change when Andrew goes to high school and does not want to spend as much time with Billy. Billy decides to find something he can do…

Twelve-year-old Bernice Baransky likes the grunge look she’s come by honestly as the only girl at Porchtown Skate Park who can pop an ollie, ride the rails, and grind the slabs. She’d love to impress Wyatt Anderson, a skater who calls her…

Gr 5-8 “Most families look pretty normal from the outside,” Solo Hahn reflects. His family looks like a father who quit his Hollywood job to write a novel and a mother who willingly left California to simplify their life. In reality, Solo’s…

“A bike race to escape bullies leads Owl directly to a hidden world and life threatening danger.”  

Patrick’s sister Colleen, a Down’s syndrome child, helps him to appreciate various experiences, including going to Mass and seeing their first rainbow.  

After her father dies, Abby and her family move west to live with relatives who run a hotel in the mining town of Frank, Alberta. Abby keeps busy helping out at the hotel, being chief caregiver to her little brother with Down…

This book is about Ailia, a fourth grader who has Down syndrome. In it Ailia explains what Down syndrome is. She goes on to describe some things she struggles with as a result of this syndrome. More importantly, she points out that…

A special friendship develops between a learning disabled girl and a boy who cannot see and who sits in a wheelchair.  

Gr. 6-9. Since his mother’s death, Will’s job has been to look after his twin brother, Denny, who has Down syndrome. Their father’s word is law on the ranch, and 15-year-old Will knuckles under as the story begins. But he soon devises…