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Here are some of our favorite books that celebrate disability pride to add to your TBR pile. The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me by Keah Brown
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 ...
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.
Professor Ian Davidson and colleagues analyzed the depiction of disabled characters in a collection of 19th children's literature from the Toronto Public Library. [5] The researchers found certain common characteristics of disability representation in 19th-century children's literature: disabled characters rarely appeared as individuals, but are usually depicted as impersonal groups and ...
It was 2010 when author Sharon M. Draper introduced readers to Melody, an 11-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, in the book Out of My Mind. The character immediately resonated with readers not ...
Reese’s Book Club’s first ever YA pick, this summer 2020 novel has also been named A Stonewall Honor Book and a TIME Magazine Best YA Book of All Time. The novel centers around Liz, a teenager ...
The book is a New York Times bestseller and is on Time Magazine's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time and on the Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews List of Best of Children's Books, amongst many others. 8–12 yrs Learning to accept others 2012 The Salt-Stained Book (Strong Winds Trilogy #1) Julia Jones, Claudia Myatt
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)