Check out these reading recommendations for Disability Pride month. Newton Free Library children’s librarians have put together a list of recommendations for kids and a list for tweens and teens. Both lists include a combination of fiction and nonfiction. Each title links to our online catalog, where you can learn more and request the book.
For Kids
- A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold
- What Happened to You by James Catchopole & Karen George
- Max Learns Sign Language by Adria F. Klein & Mernie Gallagher-Cole
- Silent Days, Silent Dreams by Allen Say
- This Is How We Talk: A Celebration of Disability and Connection by Jessica Slice, Caroline Cupp, & Kayla Harren
- Five Things about Ava Andrews by Margaret Dilloway
- She Persisted: Helen Keller by Courtney Sheinmel & Gillian Flint
- Fighting for Yes! The Story of Disability Rights Activist Judith Heumann by Maryann Cocca-Leffler & Vivien Mildenberger
- A Sporting Chance: How Ludwig Guttmann Created the Paralympic Games by Lori Alexander & Allan Drummond
- Disability Pride by Erin Hawley
- Life with a Learning Disorder by James Bow
- What Is the Americans with Disabilities Act? by Beth Finke
For Tweens & Teens
- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
- Each Tiny Spark by Pablo Cartaya
- You’re Welcome, Universe by Whitney Gardner
- Rolling Warrior by Judith E. Heumann
- The Storyteller by Brandon Hobson
- The Disability Experience by Hannalora Leavitt
- Run On Your New Legs by Wataru Midori
- Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens ed. Marieke Nijkamp
- The Fire, The Water, and Maudie McGinn by Sally J. Pla
- Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
- Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
- Heads Up by Melanie Siebert
- Roll with It by Jamie Sumner
- Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults) ed. Alice Wong
- Shiny Misfits by Maysoon Zayid & Shadia Amin