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• Ten Steps to Nanette

  a Memoir Situation

  Gadsby, Hannah,

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  Since the international success of her comedy special Nanette, Hannah Gadbsy has been lauded as one of the best comics of her generation. But to get to that “instant success,” Gadsby worked her entire life just trying to make sense of the world…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unbroken

  13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens

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  This anthology contains 13 stories exploring disability with disabled characters, written by disabled authors. These stories span the past, present, and future as well as a wide range of genres. The contributing authors include: Kody Keplinger,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Demystifying Disability

  What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be An Ally

  Ladau, Emily, 1991-

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  Emily Ladau gives readers the basics of disability history, etiquette, and culture in around 150 pages. While she packs a lot into this slim volume, Ladau breaks down each topic and subtopic into easily digestible parts.

• Sitting Pretty

  The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

  Taussig, Rebekah

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  In Sitting Pretty, Rebekah Taussig examines the complex realities of living as a disabled woman in an ableist society. In her essays, she describes her life growing up as a paralyzed girl in the ’90s and ’00s. Taussig describes her firsthand…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Disability Visibility

  First-person Stories From the Twenty-first Century

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  The disability community includes a wide range of conditions and experiences, each with their history, culture, and lived experience. In Disability Visibility, Alice Wong gathers together a range disabled writers to share their experiences. As Wong…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Disfigured

  on Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

  Leduc, Amanda

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  In the media, most people with disfigurements are portrayed as the bad guys. Just look at Disney’s Captain Hook from Peter Pan or Scar from The Lion King. In fairy tales, we constantly see disfigurement as a sign of evil. But why is that? Amanda…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• RX

  a Graphic Memoir

  Lindsay, Rachel,

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  An early 20-something living in New York City, Rachel Lindsay is diagnosed with bipolar disorder. To help her pay for her healthcare, she takes a job in marketing and finds herself working for Pfizer. Now she’s assigned to work on ads for an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cursed

  Silverstein, Karol Ruth

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  Ricky’s parents are divorcing, her older sister is leaving for college, and, on top of all of that, she’s just been diagnosed with a chronic illness. She spends her days cursing at anyone possible, cutting class—which has become her own personal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Face for Picasso

  Coming of Age With Crouzon Syndrome

  Henley, Ariel, 1992-

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  Ariel and her twin sister Zan were the first twins known to survive Crouzon syndrome, which is a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. Growing up, Ariel and her sister experienced many procedures on their faces, which was very…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Planet Earth Is Blue

  Panteleakos, Nicole,

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  In this #OwnVoices debut, 12-year-old Nova has nonverbal autism, and both she and her sister love astronomy and space. They’re super excited about the Challenger launch (eek!), but when Nova’s sister disappears, Nova is placed in foster care. No one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Good Enough

  Petro-Roy, Jen,

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  This #OwnVoices middle grade depicts 12-year-old Riley’s struggle with anorexia. Her parents place her in an inpatient treatment center, and while at first the therapy seems to be helping — she begins drawing again and makes friends in the center —…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Breathing Underwater

  Allen, Sarah Elisabeth

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  A novel for middle graders. Sisters Olivia and Ruth are going on a cross-country road trip from Tennessee to California where, years earlier, the sisters buried a time capsule on their favorite beach. Ruth’s depression has been getting worse, so…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Pretty One

  on Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me

  Brown, Keah

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  Creator of the #DisabledAndCute campaign on social media, Keah Brown describes her approach to life in her memoir The Pretty One. Brown shares her unique perspective as a Black disabled woman with cerebral palsy.

• Peta Lyre's Rating Normal

  Whateley, Anna,

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  At 16, autistic Peta Lyre is used to following society’s expectations for how “normal” people behave. But when she falls in love with the new girl on a school ski trip, all of her carefully crafted routines start to crack under the pressure. When…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Handbook for Dragon Slayers

  Haskell, Merrie,

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  This super sweet standalone fantasy has a princess with a clubfoot. Princess Matilda doesn’t much like being a princess, but she doesn’t have much of a choice about it. When her kingdom is stolen, she goes on an epic adventure to save it. With…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Finding Balance

  Gardner, Kati,

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  Jase had acute lymphocytic leukemia when he was 3, but now it only crosses his mind twice a year. One time at his annual oncologist appointment, and a second time during Camp Chemo in the summer. No one he knows now is aware of his past, especially…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stargazing

  Wang, Jen, 1984-

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  This middle grade graphic novel is just so charming. Moon and Christine are both pre-teen Chinese Americans who go to the same school and live right beside each other, but the similarities end there. Moon is Buddhist, vegetarian, impulsive, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sal & Gabi Break the Universe

  Hernandez, Carlos Alberto Pablo, 1971-

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  Sal Vidón, who has type 1 diabetes, just changed schools. While he’s stoked about being able to practice being a magician at this new artsy school, things still aren’t easy. For one thing, student class president Gabi Reál seems to be on to his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dirty River

  a Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home

  Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, 1975-

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  Care Work author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha spent some time in Canada traveling and meeting queer people looking for a new kind of love and revolution. But haunted by her past, Piepzna-Samarasinha must reckon with what is means to be a queer,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family

  Kapit, Sarah

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  Autistic sisters Lara and Caroline have started their own detective agency, FIASCCO (Finkel Investigation Agency Solving Consequential Crimes Only). The sisters are very different, not just in how their autism presents (Caroline is mostly nonverbal…Read moreRead more of this annotation