Mine for Keeps

Mine for Keeps is a book by the Canadian children's author Jean Little. Ten-year-old Sally, who has cerebral palsy, has been in a residential school for the disabled since she was four. The book chronicles her return home and her gradual adjustment to attending public school.

At the time she wrote Mine for Keeps, Little was teaching in a school for the disabled. She has said that she wrote it because she'd tired of reading her students books in which disabled child-characters either meet tragic deaths or recover completely (like Clara in Heidi, or Colin in The Secret Garden).