Every July, Disability Pride Month invites us to celebrate a powerful truth: people with disabilities may have different abilities, and that is something to honor and celebrate. Check out these teen books featuring characters with disabilities . . . .
After the loss of his leg, Kikuzato’s dream of becoming a soccer ace comes to an end. But with use of a prosthetic leeg, he finds a new goal -- to become a track star and win gold at the Tokyo Paralympics!
Maybe We're Electric by Val Emmich
In Edison, New Jersey, in a museum devoted to the inventor Thomas Edison, a bitter, self-loathing sixteen-year-old girl with a deformed hand and the seemingly coolest boy in school spend the night during a snowstorm, growing close until a shameful secret threatens everything.
Earth Girl by Janet Edwards
Earth Girl by Janet Edwards
Abandoned on Earth because of her inability to survive on other planets, Jarra crafts a fake background for herself to join a class of norms who are excavating the dangerous ruins of the old cities.
Falling Over Sideways by Jordan Sonnenblick
Harassed at her middle school, not taken seriously at home, and with a "perfect" older brother, Matthew, to live up to, thirteen-year-old Claire has always felt like her life was cursed--then one morning, when she are her beloved father are talking at breakfast, her father suddenly falls over with a stroke, and suddenly everything changes.
More Books --
Because You'll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas
Breathe and Count Back From Ten by Natalis Sylvester
Cursed by Karol Ruth Silverstein
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
Heroes by Robert Cormier
The Innocent Treatment by Ari Goelman
Not If I See You First by Eric Lindstrom
A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnhard
The Speed of Falling Objects by Nancy Richardson Fischer
Sunrise Nights by Jeff Zentner
When My Heart Joins the Thousand by A.J. Steiger
Where You See Yourself by Claire Forrest
