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• Dust

  Stine, Alison, 1978-

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• Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

  Hibbert, Talia

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• Compound Fracture

  White, Andrew Joseph

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• Lakelore

  McLemore, Anna-Marie

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• Diary of a Dying Girl

  Smith, Mallory,

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• On the Bright Side

  Sortino, Anna,

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• Give Me a Sign

  Sortino, Anna

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• Where You See Yourself

  Forrest, Claire (Young adult author)

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  Charming come of age story about a girl finding out how strong she really is. Main character has cerebral palsy.

• Breathe and Count Back From Ten

  Sylvester, Natalia

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  In this authentic novel, Verónica, a Peruvian-American teen with hip dysplasia, auditions to become a mermaid at a Central Florida theme park.

• Unbroken

  13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens

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• Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling

  Bryant, Elise (Elise M.)

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  Charming romance with a main character with Dyslexia

• One for All

  Lainoff, Lillie

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  A Three Musketeers retelling featuring a swordfighting, chronically ill protagonist!

• The Reckless Kind

  Heath, Carly,

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  A beautiful and tender tale of a disabled, queerplatonic triad in 1900’s Norway!

• The Night When No One Had Sex

  Miller, Kalena

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  A diverse and funny story of four pairs of teenagers on prom night and a humorously failed sex pact. One character has Lupus.

• Gallant

  Schwab, Victoria

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  Atmospheric paranormal story with a mute main character who uses sign language to communicate.

• The Luis Ortega Survival Club

  Reyes, Sonido

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  A revenge story with nuance and heart featuring characters with Autism and Selective Mutism.

• Not If I See You First

  Lindstrom, Eric, 1965-

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  Parker has rules including making sure people don't treat her differently for being blind.

• You're Welcome, Universe

  Gardner, Whitney,

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  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.

• A Time to Dance

  Venkatraman, Padma, 1969-

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  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.

• Made You Up

  Zappia, Francesca

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  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.