Ruth Harrigan's Blog - Posts Tagged "disability"

I've just published The Odd Gift: and other short stories about disability for college students (Reading Materials on Disability Themes for Teachers and Young Adults Book 3). This collection of short stories for young adults can be read independently or used for classroom teaching on disability themes. This volume is geared toward college students. The story The Odd Gift explores stereotypes imposed on people with disabilities; Lime and Cake is about a wife's feelings about care giving for her husband who has Alzheimer s; Wait and See deals with a father's reaction to his son's diagnosis of autism; His Parents' House is about a twenty something who moves home after acquiring a disability; and Gravity Sucks deals with how a student with cerebral palsy responds to bullying.

This book is available at Amazon : http://www.amazon.com/Odd-Gift-disabi...

A new short story collection of five stories about homelessness is up now at amazon. On the Boardwalk is about a homeless widower who meets a teen runaway. In Something of Worth, a homeless alcoholic is blackmailed by a little girl who sees him steal a coat. Dear Boy is about a runaway with developmental disabilities whose mother has died. Wheezy is about homeless friends who unite to help out one of their own. Down by the Tracks deals with the stark realities of a death witnessed by a 13 year old homeless girl.




You can find it here:


http://www.amazon.com/Boardwalk-other...

Just released a new volume of poetry, entitled That Woman in the Wheelchair. It was written over the past twenty years, from the time I acquired my disability, through the present.

You can find it at:

http://www.amazon.com/That-Woman-Whee...

Wishing everyone well!

My poetry book That Woman in the Wheelchair is on sale for 99 cents on Amazon right now. It's an autobiographical collection of poems written over the decades I've lived with quadriplegia.

http://www.amazon.com/That-Woman-Whee...

Grandpa's Tree, my short story collection on disability themes for children, is free on Amazon until July 7. It's one of the books from my reading series. The stories are fun to read out loud or as a stand alone summer reading book for kids. Have a great 4th of July weekend and enjoy!

http://www.amazon.com/Grandpas-Tree-d...