Disability Pride Month Booklist
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
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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