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by Sweeney Boo
Fiction
Mindy is a young woman living with an eating disorder and trapped in a battle for her own self-worth. When she accidentally discovers something that will give her a chance to revisit her past, she thinks she has a chance to put her life back on track. But will she be able to find a way back to her present and treat herself with love and kindness at any size?
by Ali Stroker
Fiction
After moving across the country, thirteen-year-old Natalie auditions for her new school’s play and overcomes her fears and insecurities about performing in a wheelchair. By Tony award–winning actress Ali Stroker.
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by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Nonfiction
In December 1995, the editor-in-chief of French Elle magazine suffered a massive stroke and found himself paralyzed and speechless, but entirely conscious. Using his only functioning muscle – his left eyelid – he began dictating this remarkable story, painstakingly spelling it out letter by letter.
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by Rebekah Taussig
Nonfiction
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty the author processes a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most
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by R. J. Palacio
Fiction
What if your face was so disfigured that strangers crossed the street to get away from you? Millions of readers have fallen in love with Auggie, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face, who enters mainstream middle school for the first time.
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by Emily X. R. Pan
Fiction
Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds up chasing after ghosts, uncovering family secrets, and forging a new relationship with her grandparents.
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by Kay Jamison
Nonfiction
The personal memoir of a psychologist with bioplar disorder, an authority on the subject who describes the onset of her own illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments.
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by Ariel Henley
Nonfiction
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 the disease. They endured numerous appearance-altering procedures as they grew up. Surgeons would break the bones in their heads and faces to make room for their growing organs. While the physical aspect of their condition was painful, it was nothing compared to the emotional toll of navigating life with a facial disfigurement. Here Ariel explores beauty, identity, resilience — and the strength it takes to put your life, and yourself, back together again and again.
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by Harriet MacBryde Johnson
Nonfiction
A witty, highly unconventional memoir by an attorney and disability rights activist whose congenital neuromuscular disease has never allowed her to walk, dress, or bathe without assistance, yet who pursues a formidable career and passionately celebrates her life’s richness and pleasures.
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by Zion Clark and James S. Hirsch
Nonfiction
A photographic essay showcases Paralympic gold-medalist wheelchair runner Zion Clark’s ferocious athleticism and undaunted spirit. The images are paired with motivational advice and quotes from Zion himself.
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by Adam Silvera
Fiction
When Griffin’s first love and ex-boyfriend, Theo, dies in a drowning accident, his universe implodes. Even though Theo had moved to California for college and started seeing Jackson, Griffin never doubted Theo would come back to him when the time was right. But now, the future he’s been imagining for himself has gone far off course. If Griffin is ever to rebuild his future, he must first confront his history, every last heartbreaking piece in the puzzle of his life.
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by Helen Hoang
Fiction
Like the author, this novel’s protagonist Stella has autism and like many, she struggles with intimacy. When Stella hires a male escort to teach her to be more comfortable with sex, their rational plans to avoid emotional involvement fail.
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by Carol Padden and Tom Humphries
Nonfiction
The authors reveal the historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define themselves today, their search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-description as a flourishing culture.
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by Lillie Lainoff
Fiction
In 1655, Tania is the daughter of a retired musketeer, but she is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls; when her father is murdered, she finds that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville’s newly formed Académie des Mariées, which, it turns out, is less a school for would-be wives, than a fencing academy for girls — and so Tania begins her training to be a new kind of musketeer and to get revenge for her father.
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by Camryn Garrett
Fiction
Simone, seventeen, HIV-positive and in love for the first time, decides that facing potential bullies head-on may be better than protecting her secret.
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by Lucy Frank
Fiction
Chess is sick, but with what exactly, she isn’t sure. And to make matters worse, she must share a hospital room with Shannon, her polar opposite. Chess is polite; Shannon is rude. Chess tolerates pain silently; Shannon screams bloody murder. Chess seems to be getting slowly better; Shannon seems to be getting worse. How these teenagers become friends, helping each other come to terms with their illness, makes for a dramatic and deeply moving read.
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by Alice Wong, editor
Nonfiction
A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, bringing together the voices of activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people.
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by Raina Telgemeier
Nonfiction
A bestselling graphic memoir. Raina just wants to be a normal 6th grader. But when she trips and falls after Girl Scouts, severely injuring her two front teeth, she begins a long, frustrating journey with braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached.
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by Keah Brown
Nonfiction
From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful and inspiring collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America.
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by Erika L Sánchez
Fiction
Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents’ house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga’s role. Then a tragic accident leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to see that Julia is broken, too. Instead, her mother seems to channel her grief into pointing out every possible way Julia has failed.
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by Mark Oshiro
Fiction
Six years ago, Moss Jefferies’ father was murdered by an Oakland police officer. Along with losing a parent, the media’ s vilification of his father and lack of accountability has left Moss with near crippling panic attacks. Now, a sophomore, Moss and his classmates find themselves treated like criminals their own school. Despite their youth, the students organize and push back against the administration. When tensions hit a fever pitch and tragedy strikes, Moss must face a difficult choice: give in to fear and hate or realize that anger can actually be a gift.
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by Sonia Sotomayor
Fiction
Sonia and her friends plant a garden, and each one contributes in his or her own special way, in a picture book that celebrates the many differences among people.
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by Jorge Luis Borges
Fiction
Short stories, essays, and poetry by the blind Argentine writer recognized all over the world as one of the most original and significant figures in modern literature.
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edited by Marieke Nijkamp
Fiction
An anthology of stories in various genres, each featuring disabled characters and written by disabled creators. It includes stories of interstellar war, a journey to Persia, a dating debacle. These teens reflect diverse colors, genders, and orientations — without obscuring the realities of their disabilities.
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by Sharon Draper
Fiction
A brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that allows her to speak for the first time. But will her classmates on the quiz bowl team ever accept her?
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by Gill Lewis
Fiction Nonfiction
When an albino baby dolphin caught in an old fishnet washes ashore, a would-be Paralympics sailor and an English schoolgirl work with specialists to heal the dolphin and reunite her with her mother, setting off a chain of events that might just save their coral reef.
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by Sy Montgomery
Nonfiction
When Temple Grandin was diagnosed with autism her doctor recommended institutionalizing her, but her mother sent her to school instead. Today, Dr. Grandin is a professor of animal science at Colorado State University and an autism advocate who has revolutionized the treatment of cattle.
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by Igor Plohl
Fiction
Lucas the Lion discovers the Paralympics–where physically disabled world-class athletes exemplify strength, determination, and courage. Includes information about how athletes who are blind, wear prosthetics, or use wheelchairs compete in different events, as well as the history of the Paralympic Games.
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by Jessica Kensky
Fiction
Based on a real-life partnership, the story of the love and teamwork between a girl and her service dog will illuminate and inspire. When Rescue is paired with a girl who has lost her legs, he worries that he isn’t up to the task of being her service dog.
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by Amanda Leduc
Nonfiction
Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? By examining the ways that fairy tales have shaped our expectations, this book points the way toward a world where disability is no longer a punishment or impediment.
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by Brandy Colbert
Fiction
Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her brother Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel’s bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons.
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edited by Cerrie Burnell
Nonfiction
From Frida Kahlo to Stephen Hawking, find out how these iconic disabled artists, thinkers, athletes and activists from past and present, have overcome obstacles, owned their differences, and paved the way for others by making their bodies and minds work for them.
by Adib Khorram
Fiction
Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
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by Lucy Grealy
Nonfiction
It took the author 20 years and more than 30 reconstructive procedures before she came to terms with her appearance after childhood cancer and surgeries that left her jaw disfigured. As a young girl, she absorbed the pain of peer rejection and the paralyzing fear of never being loved.
by Whitney Gardner
Fiction
When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a mainstream school in the suburbs, where she’s treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art, and not even Banksy himself could convince her to give that up.
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by Ann Clare LeZotte
Fiction
1805, Marthas Vineyard, Massachusetts. Mary Lambert has always felt safe in her community where practically everyone understands sign language. Then a scientist determined to discover the origins of the islanders’ widespread deafness decides she is the perfect “live specimen”–and kidnaps her.
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by Jim Gigliotti
Nonfiction
The renowned British scientist spent his career trying to answer the question: “Where did the universe come from?” Despite being diagnosed with a neurological disease at age 21, Stephen did not let his illness define his life.
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by Neal Shusterman
Fiction
Caden Bosch is on a galleon that’s headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench. He is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his odd behavior. He is designated the ship’s artist in residence to document the journey with images. Bosch pretends to join the school track team but spends his days walking for miles, absorbed by the thoughts in his head. He is split between his allegiance to the captain and the allure of mutiny. He is torn. He is dealing with schizophrenia… and as fantasy and paranoia begin to take over, his parents have only one choice left.
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by Temple Grandin
Nonfiction
A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the singular perspective of the best-selling author and advocate. Weaving her own experience with remarkable new discoveries, she introduces the neuroimaging advances and genetic research that link brain science to behavior, even sharing her own brain scans from numerous studies. We meet the scientists and self-advocates who are introducing innovative theories of what causes, how we diagnose, and how best to treat autism.
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by Judith Heumann
Nonfiction
Without Heumann, we would have no Americans with Disabilities Act. Starting as a teenager at the famous Camp Jened (aka “Crip Camp”) in the Catskills that shaped so many disability activists, Heumann co-founded the World Institute on Disability in 1983, and worked as a high level official in both the US Department of Education and the World Bank Group, winding up her career as Special Advisor on Disability Rights for the U.S. State Department.
by John Corey Whaley
Fiction
Agoraphobic sixteen-year-old Solomon has not left his house in three years, but Lisa is determined to change that — and to write a scholarship-winning essay based on the results.
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by Cece Bell
Nonfiction
A graphic memoir about a deaf girl who gets a special audio device to amplify her teachers’ voices and soon discovers she can hear them speak wherever they are in school: the hallway, the teacher’s lounge, even the bathroom. Introducing El Deafo, the Listener for All!
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by Haben Girma
Nonfiction
Born with significant deaf-blindness, the author was able to work her way through Harvard law school. Along the way, she developed new methods of communication and now advocates for more accessible education, and employment opportunities for the deaf and blind communities.
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by Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner
Nonfiction
Paralyzed by polio and raised by her Holocaust-surviving parents in New York City, Heumann recounts her lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in a world that wasn’t built for all of us.
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