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Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
Emily Ladau - Ten Speed Press
Format: Paperback
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People with disabilities are the world's largest minority, an estimated 15 percent of the global population. But many of us - disabled and nondisabled alike - don't know how to act, what to say, or how to be an ally to the disability community. Demystifying Disability is a friendly... |
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Run on Your New Legs, Vol. 1
Wataru Midori - Yen Press
Format: Paperback
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After the loss of his left leg, Kikuzato's dream of becoming the ace striker on the high school soccer comes to an end ... permanently. But endings are always followed by beginnings-and so, armed with a prosthetic leg, Kikuzato finds a new dream. He's going to become a track... |
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Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens
Marieke Nijkamp - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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This anthology explores disability in fictional tales told from the viewpoint of disabled characters, written by disabled creators. With stories in various genres about first loves, friendship, war, travel, and more, Unbroken will offer today's teen readers a glimpse into the lives... |
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Disability Visibility
Alice Wong - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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The seventeen eye-opening essays in Disability Visibility, all written by disabled people, offer keen insight into the complex and rich disability experience, examining life's ableism and inequality, its challenges and losses, and celebrating its wisdom, passion, and joy. The accounts... |
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Cursed
Karol Ruth Silverstein - Charlesbridge Teen
Format: Hardcover
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A debut novel for fans of The Fault in Our Stars that thoughtfully and humorously depicts teen Ricky Bloom's struggles with a recent chronic illness diagnosis.As if her parents' divorce and sister's departure for college weren't bad enough, fourteen-year-old Ricky Bloom... |
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Turning
Joy L. Smith - Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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In this raw, searingly honest debut young adult novel, a former aspiring ballerina must confront her past in order to move forward from a devastating fall that leaves her without the use of her legs.Genie used to fouetté across the stage. Now the only thing she's turning are the wheels... |
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The Disability Experience: Working Toward Belonging
Hannalora Leavitt - Orca Book Publishers
Format: Paperback
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People with disabilities (PWDs) have the same aspirations for their lives as you do for yours. The difference is that PWDs don't have the same access to education, employment, housing, transportation and healthcare in order to achieve their goals. In The Disability Experience you'll... |
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Push Girl: A Novel
Chelsie Hill - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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An inspiring, real, and fresh young adult novel about how life can change in an instant by Chelsie Hill, one of the stars Sundance Channel's series "Push Girls. " Kara is a high school junior who's loving life. She's popular, has a great group of friends and an amazing boyfriend,... |
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The One Thing
Marci Lyn Curtis - Hyperion, 2015.
Format: Print book
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After losing her sight--and the future she dreamed of--seventeen-year-old Maggie meets the one person with the ability to help her see all the possibilities life still holds. |
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Confronting Ableism
Susan Nichols - Rosen Young Adult
Format: Library Binding
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The U.S. Census Bureau reported in 2012 that one in every five Americans, almost 20 percent of the population, lives with a disability. Some disabilities are severe and recognizable, while others are invisible to those who are unaware. Despite the fact that such a large number of Americans... |
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Not If I See You First
Eric Lindstrom - Little
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of novels of Gayle Forman and John Green comes this extraordinary YA debut about a blind teen girl navigating life and love in high school. |
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Just Breathe
Cammie McGovern - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover
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From the critically acclaimed author of Say What You Will and A Step Toward Falling comes a deeply emotional new novel, perfect for fans of Five Feet Apart and The Fault in Our Stars. David Scheinman is the popular president of his senior class, battling cystic fibrosis.Jamie Turner is a quiet... |
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My Brain is Different: Stories of ADHD and Other Developmental Disorders
Monzusu - Seven Seas
Format: Paperback
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In this manga essay anthology, follow the true stories of nine people (including the illustrator) navigating life with developmental disorders and disabilities.. This intimate manga collection follows nine adults with developmental disorders as they outline their struggles and triumphs.... |
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Because You'll Never Meet Me
Leah Thomas - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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A William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalistA Carnegie Award nomineeOllie and Moritz are best friends, but they can never meet. Ollie has a life-threatening allergy to electricity, and Moritz's weak heart requires a pacemaker. If they ever did meet, they could both die. Living as recluses... |
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Run
Kody Keplinger - Scholastic Paperbacks
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The DUFF Kody Keplinger is back with a stunning new YA novel about the risks well take to save our friends ... and ourselves.Bo Dickinson is a girl with a wild reputation, a deadbeat dad, and a mama whos not exactly sober most of the time.... |
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The Fight for Disability Rights
Lisa A. Crayton - Rosen Young Adult
Format: Library Binding
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The fight for disability rights continues, even in the wake of successful, ongoing advocacy, activism, and legislation. This valuable resource depicts how the fight has enhanced the lives of people with disabilities, and how readers can continue the efforts. Highlights of renowned activists... |
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A Time to Dance
Padma Venkatraman - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Print book
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Padma Venkatraman's inspiring story of a young girl's struggle to regain her passion and find a new peace is told lyrically through verse that captures the beauty and mystery of India and the ancient bharatanatyam dance form. This is a stunning novel about spiritual awakening, the power... |
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Youre Welcome, Universe
Whitney Gardner - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant, edgy, fresh new YA voice for fans of More Happy Than Not and Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, packed with interior graffiti.Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award! When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf,... |
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Maybe We're Electric
Val Emmich - Poppy
Format: Hardcover
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Tegan Everly is quiet. Known around school simply as the girl with the hand, she's usually only her most outspoken self with her friend Neel, and right now they're not exactly talking. When Tegan is ambushed by her mom with a truth she can't face, she flees home in a snowstorm,... |
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Disability Discrimination
James Roland - Referencepoint Pr Inc
Format: Hardcover
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Disability discrimination occurs when people with physical or mental disabilities are given fewer opportunities or unfairly treated because of their disabilities. Examples can be found in schools that dont make accommodations for disabled students, buildings that are hard to maneuver in, and workplaces... |
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The Thud
Mikael Ross - Fantagraphics
Format: Paperback
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In this YA graphic novel, a boy with developmental disabilities finds his world turned upside down after his mother has a stroke and he realizes for the first time he's on his own. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection When Noel's mother has a stroke, his world is turned... |
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Laughing at My Nightmare
Shane Burcaw - Square Fish
Format: Paperback
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With acerbic wit and a hilarious voice, Shane Burcaws Laughing at My Nightmare describes the challenges he faces as a twenty-one-year-old with spinal muscular atrophy. From awkward handshakes to having a girlfriend and everything in between, Shane handles his situation with humor and a "you-only-live-once"... |
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One for All: A Novel
Lillie Lainoff
Format: Hardcover
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"There are no limits to the will -- and the strength -- of this unique female hero." -- Tamora Pierce, writer of the Song of the Lioness and the Protector of the Small quartetsOne for All is a gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers, in which a girl with a chronic illness... |
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The Silence Between Us
Alison Gervais - Blink
Format: Hardcover
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Moving halfway across the country to Colorado right before senior year isn't Maya's idea of a good time. Leaving behind Pratt School for the Deaf where she's been a student for years only to attend a hearing school is even worse. Maya has dreams of breaking into the medical field and is determined... |
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A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome
Ariel Henley
Format: Hardcover
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At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome -- a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive it.Growing up, Ariel and her sister endured numerous appearance-altering procedures.... |
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Lovely, Dark, and Deep
Justina Chen - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A luminous read that will rekindle your faith in the indomitable human spirit." -- Matthew Quick, author of The Silver Linings Playbook"An inspiring, romantic novel full of redemption and hope." -- Mitali Perkins, author of You Bring the Distant NearWhen Viola Li returns... |
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Finding Balance
Kati Gardner - Flux
Format: Paperback
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Jase Ellison doesnt remember having acute lymphocytic leukemia when he was three years old. His cancer diagnosis only enters his mind twice a year. Once at his yearly checkup at the oncology clinic and one when he attends Camp Chemo in the summer. No one in his real life knows about his past,... |
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You, Me, and Our Heartstrings
Melissa See
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What if you were finding yourself and falling in love . . . and the whole world was watching? Daisy and Noah have the same plan: use the holiday concert to land a Julliard audition. But when they're chosen to play a duet for the concert, they worry that their |
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