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Almost, but not quite, a year ago today I put a call out on my personal journal looking for recommendations or lists of YA books that feature characters with disabilities.

From that call out, I got just under 200 books (many listed multiple times), as well as lists of book recs from other sources.

I’m still going through and sorting them, looking for reviews of the books, but I thought it might be interesting to discuss here any pros & cons of the books listed, and the books that are included in other lists.

Part of the reason I like books like this is that the response to pop culture criticism from a disability-rights standpoint often is met with “But, what sort of stories do you want us to tell?” or “Telling such stories is difficult!” I want to generate a list of fiction that shows that yes, people with disabilities have stories – and not all of them are magical cures or dreams of being non-disabled. (Certainly not all of the books below don’t fall into those various traps – in the document I’m finishing up right now, many are flagged up as problematic, so this is more a book list than a book recommendation list!)

So, share your thoughts! What books would you recommend? Do you see any books on this list that you want to gush about, or point out as a problem? Anything you’d love to discuss with other readers? Feel free to link reviews of the books (your own or someone else’s), especially if they specifically mention the disability-related aspect.

Please flag up any spoilers in your comments.

Schneider Family Book Award Winners List

The Schneider Family Book Awards honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.

The Young Adult Library Association does lists of titles under certain topics every year.

Bodies: “They come in all shapes, sizes, and abilities…love it or hate it, you only have one body.”

What Ails You?

K-State Library Subject Guide: Disability.

Below the cut is the list that was generated from the comments on the above-linked post, sorted by author.

A
Anthony, Piers – Killobyte
Anderson, Laurie Halse – Speak
Alexie, Sherman – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Armstrong, Kelley – The Summoning
Anderson, R. J. – Knife [North American title is Faery Rebels: Spell Hunter]
Aronson, Sarah – Head Case
Applegate, K. A. – Animorphs (last books have a number of disabled characters)
Anderson, V. C. – The Hudson Series

B
Bingham, Kelly – Shark Girl
Blum, Judy – Deenie
Blum, Judy – Then again, maybe I won’t
Bujold, Lois McMaster – Sharing Knife quadrology
Byars, Betsy – Summer of the Swans
Byars, Betsy – The Pinballs
Butler, Beverly – Light A Single Candle
Burnett, Frances Hodgson – The Secret Garden
Butler, Dorothy – Seadog: A Tale of Old New Zealand
Brennan, Sarah Rees – Demon’s Lexicon
Boston, Lucy M – The Chimneys of Green Knowe (flagged as dodgy race issues)
Bloor, Edward – Tangerine
Brent-Dyer, Elinor M – Trials for the Chalet School
Blackman, Malorie – Pig Heart Boy
Banks, Lynne Reid – The Fairy Rebel

C
Coolidge, Susan – What Katy Did
Caswell, Brian – A cage of butterflies
Cassedy, Sylvia – Me and Morton
Cooper, Louise – The Shrouded Mirror
Crutcher, Chris – The Crazy Horse Electric Game
Crutcher, Chris – Chinese Handcuffs
Crutcher, Chris – Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Clement, Andrew – Things Not Seen

D
Dokey, Cameron – The Storyteller’s Daughter
Dickinson, Peter – Annerton Pit
Dorsey, Candas Jane – A Paradigm of Earthy
Delany, Samuel R – Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Delany, Samuel R – Dhalgren
Donaldson, Stephen – Thomas Covenant series
Duane, Diane – A Wizard Alone

E
Ethridge, Kenneth – Toothpick

F
Friedman, C. S. – This Alien Shore
Fletcher, Susan – Shadow Spinner
Forbes, Esther – Johnny Tremain

G
Gervay, Suzanne – Butterflies
Garfield, James – Follow My Leader
Gallo, Donald R – Owning It: Stories about Teens with Disabilities (anthology)
Griffin, Paul – The Orange Houses

H
Haddon, Mark – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Hesser, Terry Spencer – Kissing Doorknobs
Henry, Marguerite – King of the Wind
Hill, David – See Ya, Simon
Howell, Simone – Everything Beautiful
Halpern, Julie – Get Well Soon (award winner for “outstanding literary contribution to a better understanding of mental illness”)
Hucklesby, Jill – Deeper than Blue
Henry, Frances Mary – Quest for a Maid

I
Ibbotson, Eva – A Countess Below Stairs

J
Jinks, Catherine – Evil Genius
Jinks, Catherine – Genius Squad
Jordan, Sherryl – The Raging Quiet
Jenkins, A.M. – Damage

K
Keith, Lois – A Different Life
Kent, Debora – Belonging (and all other books by author)
Klages, Ellen – The Green Glass Sea
Killilea, Marie – Karen
Killilea, Marie – With Love from Karen
Kazuhiro, Okamoto – Translucent
Kelley, Ann – The Burrying Beetle
Kelley, Ann – The Bower Bird
Kelley, Ann – Inchworm
Kebbe, Jonathan – Noodle Head
Koetge, Ron – Stoner and Spaz

L
Little, Jean – Mine for Keeps
Little, Jean – From Anna
Little, Jean – Listen for the Singing
Lebert, Benjamin – Crazy
L’Engle, Madeline – The Young Unicorns
L’Engle, Madeline – A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Lackey, Mercedes – Bardic voices series
Lambke, Bryan – I Just Am: A Story of Down Syndrome Awareness and Tolerance
Lord, Cynthia – Rules
Larbelestier, Justine – Liar
Lowry, Lois – Gathering Blue
Lowry, Lois – Rabble Starkey
Lowry, Lois – The Giver Triology
Lindberg, Reeve – My Little Grandmother OFten Forgets
Leguin, Ursula K – Tehanu

M
Martin, Ann M – The Babysitters Club series
Martin, Ann M – Kristy and the Secret of Susan (BSC 32) (flagged as very bad portrayal of autism by multiple people)
Martin, Ann M – Jessie’s Secret Language (BSC 16)
Martin, Ann M – The Truth About Stacey
Martin, Ann M – Stacy’s Emergency
McCaffrey, Anne – Brain & Brawn series
McBryde Johnson, Harriet – Accidents of nature
Micklish, Rita – Sugar Bee
McGaughrean, Geraldine – The White Darkness
Moon, Elizabeth – Speed of Dark
Maybe, William – Gideon Ahoy!
Murdoch, Catherine – The Off Season
Mass, Wendy – A Mango-Shaped Space
MacLean, John – Mac (PTDS)
Montgomery, L. M. – Emily
Marsden, John – So Much To Tell You

O
Orr, Wendy – Peeling the onion

P
Park, Ruth – My Sister Sif
Park, Ruth – Poor Man’s Orange
Pratchett, Terry – Equal Rites
Pierce, Tamora – The Circle of Magic
Pierce, Tamora – Shatterglass
Pierce, Tamora – Will of the Empress
Pierce, Tamora – Magic Steps
Philbrick, Rodman – Freak the Might

R
Riordan, Rick – Percy Jackson series
Roberts, Barbara A – Adventures of Phoebe Flower
Rickert, Janet Elizabeth – Day with Russ
Rapp, Adam – Under the Wolf, Under the Dog
Ridley, Philip – Scribbleboy
Roberts, Willo Davis – Sugar Isn’t Everything

S
Scott, Virginia – Belonging
St John, Patricia – Treasure of the Snow
Scrimger, Richard – From Charlie’s Point of View
Sutcliff, Rosemary – The Eagle of the Ninth
Sutcliff, Rosemary – Warrior Scarlet
Southall, Ivan – Let the Balloon Go By
Stork, Francisco X – Marcelo in the Read World
Schlitz, Laura Amy – A Drowned Maiden’s Hair

T
Tan, Shaun – The Red Tree (picture book)
Tan, Shaun – The Lost Thing (picture book)
Thiele, Colin – Jodie’s Journey
Turner, Megan Whalen – Queen’s Theif series

V
Voigt, Cynthia – Izzy, Willy-Nilly
Voigt, Cynthia – Tillerman Cycle
Wilson, Jacqueline – The Illustrated Mum
Wilson, Jacqueline – Sleepovers
Wilson, Jacqueline – My Sister Jodie
Wilson, Jacqueline – Take A Good Look

W
Wilder, Laura Ingalls – Little House on the Prairie (skeevy racial issues)
Westerfeld, Scott – Ugies/Pretties/Specials series
Wilcott, Lizzy – griEVE (trigger warning for self-harm)
Werlin, Nancy – Are You Alone on Purpose?
Willard, Barbara – Mantlemass books – scoliosis?
Wein, Elizabeth E – The Lion Hunter
Wein, Elizabeth E – The Empty Kingdom
Wright, Betty Ren – The Dollhouse Murders
Well, Rosemary – Through the Hidden Door

Y
Yolen, Jane – The Seeing Stick (picture book)

Z
Zindel, Paul = Pardon Me, you’re stepping on my eyeball!
Zephaniah, Benjamin – Face

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