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Disability Awareness Reads for Teens

Books that highlight both the challenges and the successes of disabled people both fictional and real.

Santa Monica Public Library

22 items

  • Book, 2024New York : Wednesday Books, 2024. — YAF STINE, ALISON
  • Book, 2022New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2022. — YAF MCLEMORE, ANNA-MARIE
  • Book, 2024New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2024. — YAF SORTINO, ANNA
  • Book, 2023New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023. — YAF SORTINO, ANNA
  • Charming come of age story about a girl finding out how strong she really is. Main character has cerebral palsy.
    Book, 2023New York : Scholastic Press, 2023. — YAF FORREST, CLAIRE
  • In this authentic novel, Verónica, a Peruvian-American teen with hip dysplasia, auditions to become a mermaid at a Central Florida theme park.
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022. — YAF SYLVESTER, NATALIA
  • Unbroken

    13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens

    Book, 2018New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018. — YA 808.3 UNBROKEN
  • Charming romance with a main character with Dyslexia
    Book, 2023New York : Balzar + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — YAF BRYANT, ELISE
  • A Three Musketeers retelling featuring a swordfighting, chronically ill protagonist!
    Book, 2022New York : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, [2022] — YAF LAINOFF, LILLIE
  • A beautiful and tender tale of a disabled, queerplatonic triad in 1900’s Norway!
    Book, 2021New York, N.Y. : Soho Teen, [2021] — YAF HEATH, CARLY
  • A diverse and funny story of four pairs of teenagers on prom night and a humorously failed sex pact. One character has Lupus.
    Book, 2021Chicago, Illinois : Albert Whitman and Company, [2021] — YAF MILLER, KALENA
  • Atmospheric paranormal story with a mute main character who uses sign language to communicate.
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — YAF SCHWAB, VICTORIA
  • A revenge story with nuance and heart featuring characters with Autism and Selective Mutism.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023] — YAF REYES, SONORA
  • Parker has rules including making sure people don't treat her differently for being blind.
    Book, 2015New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2015. — YAF LINDSTROM, ERIC
  • 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 (albeit illegal) graffiti mural.
    Book, 2017New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2017. — YAF GARDNER, WHITNEY
  • Veda, a classical dance prodigy in India, lives and breathes her art form. So when an accident leaves her a below-the-knee amputee, she feels like her dreams are shattered.
    Book, 2015New York, NY : Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), [2015] — YAPB VENKATRAMAN, PADMA
  • Made You Up tells the story of Alex, a high school senior—and the ultimate unreliable narrator—unable to tell the difference between real life and delusion.
    Book, 2015New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015] — YAF ZAPPIA, FRANCESCA