Disability Pride Month - Young Adults

Created on July 5, 2022, 12:45 pm

Last Updated July 5, 2023, 5:50 pm

July is Disability Pride Month. It celebrates disabled people, challenges stereotypes about disabilities and educates the public about issues that the disabled community faces every day. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the landmark legislation that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities, was signed on July 26, 1990. Includes the American Library Association's Schneider Family Book Award and other titles that embody the disability experience. For lists of present and past Schneider Family Book Award titles, see https://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/schneider-family-book-award

1) Ellie Haycock is totally normal

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Schreiber, Gretchen

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Ellie, a high schooler with a rare genetic condition, navigates the divide between her "hospital-life" and "home-life," as a hospital stay brings her closer to Ryan, who challenges her perspective and makes her consider the extraordinary possibilities of her life.

2) Work with what you got

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"Zion Clark has always had big dreams for himself despite the many hardships he faced growing up as a Black disabled child in the foster care system of Ohio. His childhood years were marked by instability as he moved from home to home, experiencing abuse and neglect. And yet his determination and grit pushed him to become an elite wrestler and wheelchair racer. His constant reinvention led him to activism, speaking out about the failings of the foster...

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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Life's just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie: her father walked out a year ago, her mother's stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she's caring for the maternal grandmother she's never met, who's suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she can't reveal.

4) The sea in you

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Sheron, Jessica

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In a dark fantasy retelling of "The Little Mermaid," a young girl barely escapes an encounter with a deadly mermaid, and the two quickly form a romantic bond that threatens all of their social ties on land and beneath the sea.--

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Long ago, in a small village in the middle of a deep, dark forest, there lived a lonely, deaf girl named Maggie. Shunned by her village because of her disability, her only comfort comes from her vivid imagination. Maggie has a gift for inventing stories and dreams of one day finding her fairy-tale love. When Maggie meets the mysterious Piper, it seems that all her wishes are coming true. Spellbound, Maggie falls hard for him and plunges headfirst...

6) Who are you Fred?

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Ryan, Eileen Maloney

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"As Fred navigates four years of high school-- confrontting bullies, struggling with homework and tests, losing his shoes, and trying to answer the question, Who are you, Fred?-- readers will gain an understanding about the complexities of learning disabilities."--Page of cover.

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Everything changes for thirteen-year-old Travis, a new student who is trying to hide his illiteracy, when he meets a sassy classmate with her own secrets and a remarkable teacher.

8) A dragonbird in the fern

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Rueckert, Laura

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After the assassination of her older sister Scilla, seventeen-year-old Jiara chooses to take her sister's place as the bride to the young king of a distant country, hoping to identify her sister's killer before Scilla's vengeful ghost murders their family.

9) Memoirs of an imaginary friend

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10) Give me a sign

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Seventeen-year-old Lilah, who wears hearing aids, returns to a summer camp for the Deaf and Blind as a counselor, eager to improve her ASL and find her place in the community, but she did not expect to also find romance along the way.

11) Tilly in technicolor

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When eighteen-year-old Tilly goes to London to intern for her sister's company, she begins to unmask her ADHD and connects with Oliver, another neurodivergent intern.

12) Where you see yourself

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Forrest, Claire

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Playaway

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Effie Galanos' goals for her senior year include her navigating her way through her high school that is not really wheelchair-friendly, getting into the perfect college, and getting her crush Wilder to accompany her to the prom--but by spring she is beginning to see herself entirely differently.

13) Run on your new legs: 4

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Run on your new legs volume 4

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Kikuzato is excited to continue training with his new custom running prosthesis, even though the worsening pandemic has forced schools to close. While the track and field club members need to find creative ways to train, Kikuzato also has to face being in close quarters with his father, who is now working from home.

14) Komi can't communicate: 22

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Komi can't communicate volume 22

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Komi and her classmates are in the Big Apple, and Manbagi sees it as a chance to make a Big Confession. But as much as she wants to tell Tadano that she likes him, can she go through with it if it means changing her friendship with him (and Komi!) forever?

15) Notes from a sickbed

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Notes from a Sickbed

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eComic, Graphic Novels & Manga

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"In 2009, Tessa Brunton experienced the first symptoms of myalgic encephalomyelitis. [This memoir] recalls the next eight years of her life--largely housebound--with honesty, a pointed wit, and a lively visual imagination"--

16) Up all night: 13 stories between sunset and sunrise

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Authors, Various

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A collection of thirteen short stories by young adult authors, all revolving around the theme of staying up late into the night.

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18) Josee, the tiger and the fish

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"College student Tsuneo loves the ocean and the creatures it harbors, and he dreams of studying abroad in faraway waters. All he needs is enough funds to go, so when a girl in a wheelchair suddenly barrels into his life, he readily agrees to work part-time as her caretaker. Getting close to the prickly Josee is easier said than done, but before he can give up, an impromptu trip to the beach shows them both that sometimes, they must take that first...

19) Run on your new legs: 2

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Run on your new legs volume 2

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"The race in Shibuya has given Kikuzato a taste of what running and competing on a blade could be, but it will take more than a new leg for him to truly be a contender the next time he races. Kikuzato needs to learn how to run, and Usami is only too happy to give him some pointers after school at track and field club. Kikuzato though his days of training with a team were behind him, but with the club members' help, the path to becoming a runner opens...

20) Komi can't communicate: Volume 21

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Komi can't communicate volume 21

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"Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi's greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve! Luckily she meets Tadano, a timid wallflower who decides to step out of his comfort zone in order to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends. It's a new year full of new challenges! Komi's class trip is going to be overseas this time, but the terrifying adventure begins now...