Libby and the Cape of Visitability

By Eleanor Smith, Nadeen Green and Rodrigo Tobar De la Fuente

Libby, Aria and Benjamin have been best friends since they were babies. But now Aria has moved to a new house and Libby, who uses a wheelchair, doesnt get invited to Arias birthday party because the house has barriers. Hurt feelings followThen the kids meet Everett, an adult wheelchair athlete, who tells them how the disability rights movement gained successes through years of public demonstrations and pressing for laws. Everett shows them a picture from the 70s showing people with disabilities blocking inaccessible buses. The kids are inspired to their version of public action to achieve the goal that every new house would have a step-free entrance and wide bathroom doors. Learn how the kids get on the front page of their hometown paper, as their method gets them in trouble and how they achieve a sweet victory.
"Libby and the Cape of Visitability" is the diary of Libby, a KWD (Kid with Disability). Written for children ages 8-13, this book raises awareness of the exclusion created when houses are not built with simple features that allow wheelchair users to visit or live in them. For those grownups (teachers, parents and others) who engage in meaningful dialogue with children, this book provides not only a captivating story and relatable characters, but a Reader's Guide with discussion questions and resources as well.
Eleanor Smith is a well known civil rights worker and Nadeen Green is a teacher, writer and blogger on the topic of fair housing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Apr 10, 2013
• ISBN: 9781481734127

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Contents

Tuesday, July 10th.

Wednesday, July 11th.

Friday, July 13th.

Monday, July 16th.

Tuesday, July 17th.

Thursday, July 19th.

Friday, July 20th.

Saturday, July 21st.

Monday, July 23rd.

Tuesday, July 24th.

Wednesday, July 25th.

Sunday, July 29th.

Monday, July 30th.

Tuesday, July 31st.

Wednesday, August 15th.

Thursday, August 16th.

Friday, August 17th.

Saturday, August 18th.

Monday, August 20th.

Tuesday, August 21st.

Saturday, November 17th.

Friday, November 23rd .

Libby and the Cape of Visitability Reader’s Guide

Resources for Learning More About Visitability

About Eleanor Smith

About Nadeen Green

Eleanor Smith and Nadeen Green want to thank the following children for being pre-publication reviewers for our book…

Tuesday, July 10th.

I know that I shouldn’t complain about my friends Aria and Benjamin. Well, I could, and sometimes I really want to, but I know that I shouldn’t. After all, they are good friends and even when we do have fights, they are just quibbles. I love the word quibble – in fact, I like (adore, relish, delight in, savor) lots of words that sometimes my friends don’t even know. I don’t mean to sound all braggy and super smart here, but words are truly my thing. And I am always helping my friends with their vocabulary and spelling tests. Sometimes they call me Lib-Bee the Spelling Bee. But since I need to be honest here (because that is what this journal is supposed to be all about, sharing my thoughts and feelings because this is the summer assignment for school – how crummy that we have a summer assignment, I mean, is that really the right thing to do to us?), I guess I should mention that while I am super-good (a maestro, in fact) with words, math is not my friend. I haven’t figured out when in my grownup life I will ever need long division or square roots or an x-axis and a y-axis or any algebra at all (maybe fractions, but I am not totally convinced about that either). So I really do appreciate when Aria and Benjamin help me with my math homework.

And they have even come to my rescue. Kids like me get teased a lot, and I can usually handle that (I once heard my Dad tell my Mom that I got my self-esteem from his side of the family; Mom didn’t seem to exactly agree with that). But sometimes the teasing can be scary. Like when the three skuzzy boys who are a grade ahead of me in school decided to see if they could make me dizzy. We had just finished with PE class and these smelly sweaty slime balls (I am good with words for sure – that is great alliteration) surrounded me and spun me around and around and everything was out of control. I thought I was going to be flung halfway across the gym.

It was pretty awful when some of the other kids saw what was happening and started to cheer for my tormentors. I was terrified and worried that I would wet my pants and how would I ever cope with that; it wasn’t my life that flashed