Disability Pride Month - Tweens

Created on July 5, 2022, 1:42 pm

Last Updated October 3, 2023, 12:01 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

61) Better with Butter

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Piontek, Victoria

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Afraid of absolutely everything, 12-year-old Marvel momentarily forgets her anxiety when she rescues a fainting goat named Butter and must fight for her new friend when she is told she might have to give Butter up forever.

62) Paper heart

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Series

Tornado brain volume 2

Description

Companion to: Tornado brain. Mere months after her best friend's death, thirteen-year-old Tess spends a summer with family in Wyoming, making friends at art camp while being haunted by Colette and her own anxieties.

63) A bird will soar

Author

Myers, Alison Green

Description

"Axel,a boy with autism spectrum disorder, loves everything about birds, especially eagles. No one worries that an eagle will fly too far and not come home--a fact Axel wishes his mother understood. Deep down, Axel knows that his mother is like an osprey--the best of all bird mothers--but it's hard to remember that when she worries and keeps secrets about important things. His dad is more like a wild turkey, coming and going as he pleases. His dad's...

64) Live in the moment: Michael J. Fox

Author

Morlock, Jeremy

Series

Disabilities can't stop us!

Description

"Michael J. Fox found success as a film and television actor at an early age. However, when he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, his life and goals changed forever. Fox has continued acting, faced physical and emotional challenges, and shared his experiences and optimism with others. His foundation has raised more than $800 million to fund research to find a cure for Parkinson's disease. This book will show young readers more about Fox's life...

65) Boogie Bass, sign language star

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Series

After-school superstars volume 4

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Boogie Bass feels his best friend, Nolan, is better than he at everything, even caring for Boogie's little brothers, but an after-school camp reveals Boogie's talent at communicating using American Sign Language. Includes facts about ASL.

66) How to become a planet

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Melleby, Nicole

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"After an entire summer trying to figure out how to go back to being the person she was before her depression and anxiety diagnosis, twelve-year-old Pluto finds out--with the help of the Hayden Planetarium hotline, a new tutor, and a new friend--that there is no old or new Pluto, there's just Pluto, growing up"--

67) A kind of spark

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Description

When she discovers that her small Scottish town used to burn witches simply because they were different, a neurodivergent girl who sees and hears things others cannot refuses to let them be forgotten.

68) Jessi's secret language

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Series

Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 16

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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"Jessi knows a secret language! She learned it from Matt Braddock, the BSC's newest charge. Matt's been deaf since birth, and he uses sign language to speak. Since Jessi is Matt's baby-sitter, she's been using sign language, too. Soon all the kids in Stoneybrook want to learn to sign...which keeps the Baby-sitters busy. Jessi's the busiest of all: she working on another secret just for Matt. Will she be able to keep the secret and pull off her special...

69) The secret garden: the graphic novel

Author

Marsden, Mariah

Description

"Ten-year-old Mary Lennox arrives at a secluded estate on the Yorkshire moors with a scowl and a chip on her shoulder. First, there's Martha Sowerby: the too-cheery maid with bothersome questions who seems out of place in the dreary manor. Then there's the elusive Uncle Craven, Mary's only remaining family--whom she's not permitted to see. And finally, there are the mysteries that seem to haunt the run-down place: rumors of a lost garden with a tragic...

70) Hoops and hopes

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Jake Maddox JV girls

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"For twelve-year-old Autumn Holloway, a week at Blazing Hoops wheelchair basketball camp is a dream come true. She has high hopes that it will be her ticket to making friends and connections in the adaptive sports community. But Autumn struggles to fit in with her wealthier fellow campers. To make matters worse, she has to use a borrowed basketball wheelchair that keeps needing repairs. It takes a chance encounter with the campus custodial staff to...

71) Set me free

Author

LeZotte, Ann Clare

Series

Show me a sign volume 2

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook

Description

Three years after being kidnapped from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she's now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who's being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child. A little scared, but intrigued, and bored with domestic life, Mary agrees--only to...

72) Show me a sign

Author

LeZotte, Ann Clare

Series

Show me a sign volume 1

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Playaway

Description

It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...

73) The many mysteries of the Finkel family

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Lara and her 15-months-younger sister, Caroline, both autistic, encounter a variety of challenges in middle school. Lara decides to organize her own detective agency, channeling her favorite mystery series character. Her cases involve everyday mysteries including a few pranks and a missing brooch, but Lara isn't prepared when most of the mysteries she finds are strange behaviors in her own family, and her spying leads to her uncovering secrets she...

74) When stars are scattered

Author

Jamieson, Victoria

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eAudiobook, Graphic Novels & Manga, Mixed Media, Playaway

Description

An Odyssey Honor audiobook and National Book Award Finalist, this remarkable graphic novel—adapted for audio—is about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by a former Somali refugee to the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl.
Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard there: never enough food, achingly dull, and without access to...

Author

Huett, Caleb Zane

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Book, eBook, Playaway

Description

"Buster's a therapy dog who needs to take matters into his own paws to help a boy understand his own anxiety--even if it means breaking a few rules"--Publisher marketing.

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Series

Best Friends Dog Tales

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

Stella used to be a bomb-sniffing dog, but after a terrible accident, she goes to live on a small family farm to recover from her fear of loud noises. As a puppy, Stella was trained to use her powerful beagle nose to sniff out dangerous chemicals and help her handler keep people safe. During a routine security inspection, Stella misses the scent of an explosive. The sound of the blast is loud and scary. Unable to go back to work because of her anxiety,...

77) Darkwhispers: a Brightstorm adventure

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Series

Brightstorm Adventure (Sky-ship Adventure) volume 2

Description

Twins Arthur and Maudie set sail in their sky-ship to find noted explorer and author Ermitage Wrigglesworth, but their newly-discovered aunt, Eurora Vane, is also seeking him--and a secret he had just uncovered.

78) Secrets of Camp Whatever Vol. 1

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Series

Secrets of Camp Whatever volume 2

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eComic, Graphic Novels & Manga

Description

When twelve-year-old Willow went to her weird new town's even weirder summer camp, she didn't expect to get caught up in an ancient mystery involving forest-dwelling vampires, living garden gnomes, and other completely bonkers creatures most people would never believe exist. Now she's not only involved, she's marked-too close to the heart of an ages-old quest for power and control than she should be, and too concerned about her new friends and the...

79) Bo and the merbaby

Author

Elliott, Rebecca

Series

Unicorn diaries volume 5

Description

Merbaby Flo was born with only one fin, unable to swim--so Bo and the other unicorns set out for the Shiny Sea to find the Golden Fish and ask Goldie to use his magic to help baby Flo.

80) A Tale as Tall as Jacob: Misadventures With My Brother

Author

Edwards, Samantha

Series

Tale as Tall as Jacob

Formats:

eComic, Graphic Novels & Manga

Description

In this charming and poignant debut graphic novel, a young girl struggles to understand, accept, and support her remarkable little brother as he adapts to life with ADHD. Based on the author's own childhood and told through funny, beautifully illustrated vignettes, this story of two siblings celebrates empathy and embraces how difference makes every family unique. When Jacob is born, Samantha is excited to have a normal little brother to play with....