Disability in books for kid & teens

You’re So Amazing

James Catchpole

One-legged Joe is often told that he’s Amazing Joe or Poor Joe, but what if he’d rather just be . Joe? One-legged Joe is amazing . Amazing for sliding down…

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What Happened to You?

James Catchpole

A ground-breaking picture book with a radical message about how a disabled person might want to be spoken to!

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Aven Green Sleuthing Machine

Dusti Bowling

Aven Green is the remarkable heroine of Dusti Bowling’s Life of a Cactus series. Now younger readers can also get to know Aven through her everyday adventures.

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Aven Green Baking Machine

Dusti Bowling

Now that third-grader Aven Green has retired from sleuthing, it’s time to conquer a whole new world: baking!

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Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus

Dusti Bowling

Aven’s about to begin high school - with 3000 new kids to stare at her for being different. Can Aven manage to stay true to herself?

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Hello, Universe

Erin Entrada Kelly

Winner of the 2018 Newbery Medal. This is a funny and poignant story about unexpected friendships.

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Song for A Whale

Lynne Kelly

Twelve-year-old Iris and her grandmother, both deaf, drive from Texas to Alaska armed with Iris’s plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with other whales.

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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

Dusti Bowling

A novel about a girl born without arms and a boy with Tourette syndrome navigating the challenges of school, disability and friendship.

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Sincerely, Harriet

Sarah Winifred Searle

In Chicago 1996, thirteen-year-old Harriet Flores, struggling with boredom, loneliness, and a chronic illness, lets her imagination run wild–with mixed results–and learns about the power of storytelling.

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Unmasked (Young Readers’ Edition)

Turia Pitt

Shortlisted for the Readings Young Adult Book Prize 2019

Telling the story of Turia’s life before and after the fire, this young readers’ this book unmasks the real Turia –…

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Little & Lion

Brandy Colbert

A stunning novel on love, identity, loss, and redemption, featuring diverse characters grappling with such issues as bipolar illness and bisexuality–now in paperback!

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The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

Mackenzi Lee

A young bisexual British lord embarks on an unforgettable Grand Tour of Europe with his best friend/secret crush. An eighteenth century romantic adventure for the modern age.

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Girl in the Window

Penny Joelson

See the world from another unique perspective in the thrilling new novel from the author of I Have No Secrets.

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Lenny’s Book of Everything

Karen Foxlee

A big-hearted novel about loving and letting-go by an award-winning author.

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Everything I’ve Never Said

Samantha Wheeler

A powerful novel about a subject rarely tackled - young people with disabilities and the families who love and support them.

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The Black Book of Colours

Menena Cottin

An award-winning, unforgettable black book about colour, which shows you how to see without your eyes.

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I Have No Secrets

Penny Joelson

Jemma knows who did the murder. She knows because he told her. And she can’t tell anyone.

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Hello, Universe

Erin Entrada Kelly

Lives of four misfits are intertwined when a bully’s prank lands shy Virgil at the bottom of a well and Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band together in an epic quest…

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Ugly (Young Readers Edition)

Robert Hoge

A beaut story about one very ugly kid.

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Magisterium: The Iron Trial

Cassandra Clare,Holly Black

From the imaginations of bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes a heart-stopping plunge into the magical unknown. Think you know magic? Think again. The Magisterium awaits .

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The Young Elites (Book 1)

Marie Lu

Teren Santoro works for the king. As Leader of the Inquisition Axis, it is his job to seek out the Young Elites, to destroy them before they destroy the nation…

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The War that Saved My Life

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their…

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Six of Crows (Book 1)

Leigh Bardugo

Game of Thrones meets Ocean’s Eleven in this brand new fantasy epic from the No.1 New York Times bestselling author of the Grisha trilogy. Gripping, sweeping and memorable, Six of…

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El Deafo

Cece Bell

A hearing aid grants superpowers in this funny, poignant, exceptional graphic novel memoir about growing up deaf.

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Fish in a Tree

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

-Ally’s greatest fear is that everyone will find out she is as dumb as they think she is because she still doesn’t know how to read—

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Tarin of the Mammoths: The Exile (Book 1)

Jo Sandhu

Tarin of the Mammoths is a thrilling Stone Age epic for ages 8-12.

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We Are Giants

Amber Lee Dodd,Amber Lee Dodd

For fans of Jacqueline Wilson and Wonder, this is a novel about a girl whose mum has dwarfism. But it’s not just about that. It’s about love, family, friendship, and…

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Out of My Mind

Sharon M. Draper

From a multiple Coretta Scott King Award-winning author comes the story of a brilliant girl that no one knows about because she cannot speak or write. If there is one…

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Disability in books for kid & teens

You’re So Amazing

What Happened to You?

Aven Green Sleuthing Machine

Aven Green Baking Machine

Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus

Hello, Universe

Song for A Whale

Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

Sincerely, Harriet

Unmasked (Young Readers’ Edition)

Little & Lion

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

Girl in the Window

Lenny’s Book of Everything

Everything I’ve Never Said

The Black Book of Colours

I Have No Secrets

Hello, Universe

Ugly (Young Readers Edition)

Magisterium: The Iron Trial

The Young Elites (Book 1)

The War that Saved My Life

Six of Crows (Book 1)

El Deafo

Fish in a Tree

Tarin of the Mammoths: The Exile (Book 1)

We Are Giants

Out of My Mind