Disability Pride Month 2024-Children's Book Picks

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Series

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"Beautiful, full-color photos of kids with disabilities celebrate all types of movement and mobility aids (like wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, prosthetics, and service dogs), while simple, poetic text builds both vocabulary and empathy."--

2) You're so amazing!

Author

Catchpole, James

Series

What happened to you? volume 2

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"In this authentic and humorous picture book, a child with a limb difference is tired of being told how amazing he is for doing normal things. Joe and his friend Simone are practicing their best playground tricks, but everyone keeps saying how amazing Joe is, even when he tries to let Simone be the star. Will he ever get to be just Joe, whether he’s amazing or not? This companion to What Happened to You? addresses the assumptions people make about...

3) Dancing hands: a story of friendship in Filipino sign language

Author

Que, Joanna

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Sam is fascinated by her new neighbors and their ability to talk with their hands, and when she meets Mai, she starts to learn Filipino sign language so they can communicate.

4) A day with no words

Author

Hammond, Tiffany

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook

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"A must-read that belongs in every home and classroom, A Day With No Words invites readers into the life of an Autism Family who communicates just as the child does, without spoken language."--

5) Abdul's story

Author

Thompkins-Bigelow, Jamilah

Formats:

Book, Kit

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Abdul loves telling stories but thinks his messy handwriting and spelling mistakes will keep him from becoming an author, until Mr. Muhammad visits and encourages him to persist.

6) Abdul's story

Author

Thompkins-Bigelow, Jamilah

Formats:

Book, Kit

Description

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Abdul loves telling stories but thinks his messy handwriting and spelling mistakes will keep him from becoming an author, until Mr. Muhammad visits and encourages him to persist.

7) The lumbering giants of Windy Pines

Author

Netz, Mo

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

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"Ever since her dad died, 11-year-old Jerry Blum and her mom have bounced around dead-end towns, staying in a series of rundown motels where her mother picks up housekeeping work and Jerry can get around in her wheelchair. But the Slumbering Giant motel is different. Lights blink on and off in the surrounding trees, a mysterious radio station plays only at midnight, and people disappear into the woods, never to been seen again. Not to mention that...

8) El Deafo: superpowered edition

Author

Bell, Cece

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"Starting a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest. At her old school, everyone in Cece's class was deaf. Here she is different. She's sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends. Then Cece makes a startling discovery. With the Phonic Ear she can hear her teacher not just in the classroom, but anywhere...

9) El deafo

Author

Bell, Cece

Formats:

Graphic Novel, eComic, Kindle

Description

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"Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles her hearing loss at a young age and her subsequent experiences with the Phonic Ear, a very powerful--and very awkward--hearing aid. The Phonic Ear gives Cece the ability to hear--sometimes...

10) Maya plays the part

Author

Erb, Calyssa

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook

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"A heartwarming middle-grade debut with autism representation and a musical flair. Maya lives and breathes musicals. When her chance to finally be a part of the summer musical program at the community theater comes up, Maya is convinced she will get the lead. After all, who knows The Drowsy Chaperone better than she does? However, things don't turn out exactly the way Maya's planned, and the summer turns out to be jam-packed with problems: dealing...

11) The Fantastic Freewheeler, Sixth-Grade Superhero!

Author

Brown, Scott

Series

Fantastic Freewheeler volume 1

Description

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On his twelfth birthday, Drew Daniels receives a chunk of alien spacecraft. It’s the coolest present ever. But then a Martian secretly comes to take the piece back and gives Drew an even more amazing gift in exchange: the power to absorb information through touch! Will Drew keep this brain boost ability to himself, or will he take up the path of a superhero and help a classmate who loses something precious? Find out in this exciting Fantastic...

12) The Fantastic Freewheeler, sixth-grade superhero!: a graphic novel

Series

Fantastic Freewheeler volume 1

Description

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"On his twelfth birthday, Drew Daniels receives a chunk of alien spacecraft, but when a Martian secretly comes to take the piece back he gives Drew an even more amazing gift in exchange: the power to absorb information through touch."--

13) Buzzing

Author

Sattin, Samuel

Formats:

Graphic Novel, eComic, Kindle

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"Isaac is a shy boy with OCD, but one day at school he meets new friends who introduce him to role-playing games, which lead him on a journey of self-discovery and growth"--