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Disability Pride Month Booklist

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July 1, 2023

July is Disability Pride Month! This annual observance is used to promote visibility and mainstream awareness of the positive pride felt by people with disabilities by celebrating disability culture and the unique experiences of people with differing abilities and the contributions that they offer society. We've compiled a booklist featuring stories with disabled characters.

To learn more, visit ameridisability.com/how-to-display-disability-pride

Click on a title to find it in our catalog; and find many more titles at cobbcat.org.

Children's Picture Books

Benji, the Bad Day, and Me by Sally J. Pla

Can Bears Ski by Raymond Antrobus

A Friend for Henry by Jenn Bailey

I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott

It Was Supposed to be Sunny by Samantha Cotterill

Just Ask! Be Different, Be Brave, Be You by Sonia Sotomayor

Lucas at the Paralympics by Igor Plohl

My Brother Charlie by Holly Robinson Peete

My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay by Cari Best

My Travelin’ Eye by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw

Poojo’s Got Wheels by Charrow

Rescue & Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship by Jessica Kensky

Thank you, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco

This Beach is Loud by Samantha Cotterill

What Happened to You? by James Catchpole

Children's and Preteen Chapter Books

As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds

The Chance to Fly by Ali Stroker

El Deafo by Cece Bell

The Distance Between Me and the Cherry Tree by Paola Peretti

Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling

Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper

Rules by Cynthia Lord

Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte

Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly

Wonder by RJ Palacio

Teen and Young Adult Fiction

Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro

Breathe and Count Back From Ten by Natalia Sylvester

Cursed by Karol Ruth Silverstein

The Degenerates by J. Albert Mann

Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

The First Thing About You by Chaz Hayden

History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera

It's My Life by Stacie Ramey

Love From A to Z by SK Ali

One for All by Lillie Lainoff

The Oracle Code_ by Marieke Nijkamp

Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz

The Silence Between Us by Alison Gervais

A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman

Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens edited by Marieke Nijkamp

Adult Fiction

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

A Room Called Earth by Madeleine Ryan

Starling Days by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

True Biz by Sara Novic

Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante

Adult Nonfiction

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally by Emily Ladau

Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong 

The Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Woman's Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home by Katherine May

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

Haben: The Deafblind Woman who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Grima

The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reason to Fall in Love with Me by Keah Brown

A Quick and Easy Guide to Sex and Disability by A. Andrews

Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby