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  2. List of fictional characters with disabilities - Wikipedia

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    In the first book of the series, Adam becomes deaf in his left ear due to abuse. [12] 2012 Hazel Grace Lancaster, Augustus Waters, and several other characters The Fault in our Stars: John Green: The book is about characters with several types of cancer and resulting disabilities including a blind character and one with a prosthetic leg. [13 ...

  3. 18 Books With Disability Representation - AOL

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    Terminology aside, reading books by disabled authors and that prominently feature disabled characters is a great, supportive way to see what living as a disabled person is actually like — and ...

  4. Freak the Mighty - Wikipedia

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    Freak the Mighty is a young adult novel by Rodman Philbrick.Published in 1993, it was followed by the novel Max the Mighty in 1998. The primary characters are friends Maxwell Kane, a large, developmentally disabled, but kind-hearted boy, and Kevin Avery, nicknamed "Freak", who is physically disabled but very intelligent.

  5. Category:Fictional characters with disabilities - Wikipedia

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    Fictional characters with mental disorders (20 C, 151 P) Fictional characters missing an eye (1 C, 56 P) Fictional characters with musculoskeletal system disorders (1 C, 5 P)

  6. Disability in children's literature - Wikipedia

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    A 2011 World Report on Disability conducted by the World Health Organization found that around 15% of the global population, 1 billion people, have a disability, [2] yet in 2019 only 3.4% of children's books had disabled main characters. [3] The quality of disability representation can vary depending on the specific disability portrayed. [4]

  7. The Bone Houses - Wikipedia

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    The Bone Houses is a 2019 young adult horror fantasy novel by Emily Lloyd-Jones, following Ryn, a female gravedigger, and Ellis, an apprentice mapmaker, as they try to stop "bone houses" (reanimated corpses) from roaming their world and affecting Ryn's family business.

  8. List of children's books featuring deaf characters - Wikipedia

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    The main character who uses ASL to communicate teaches some signs to a new child, then the children see a performance put on by the Little theatre of the deaf. 4–8 yrs 2004 Moses Goes to the Circus: Isaac Millman The main character Moses uses ASL to communicate with his hearing family and teaches his young sister some ASL. 4–6 yrs 2003

  9. Mental disorders in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The main character is Zeno Cosini, and the book is the fictional character's memoirs that he keeps at the insistence of his psychiatrist. Zeno's Conscience is most notably influential for being one of the first modernist novels with a non-linear structure and told by an unreliable narrator. Christina Alberta's Father, 1925 novel by H.G. Wells ...