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Disability visibility : first-person stories from the Twenty-first century
The pretty one : on life, pop culture, disability, and other reasons to fall in love with meKeah Brown
Dirty river : a queer femme of color dreaming her way homeLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Being Heumann : an unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activistJudith E Heumann
We are inevitableGayle Forman
Sitting pretty : the view from my ordinary resilient disabled bodyRebekah Taussig
Broken places & outer spaces : finding creativity in the unexpectedNnedi Okorafor
Care work : dreaming disability justiceLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
(Don't) call me crazy : 33 voices start the conversation about mental health
The collected schizophrenias : essaysEsmé Weijun Wang
The perseveranceRaymond Antrobus
What doesn't kill you : a life with chronic illness-lessons from a body in revoltTessa Miller
About us : essays from the disability series of the New York times
Get a life, Chloe BrownTalia Hibbert
Love from A to ZS K Ali
Mean little deaf queer : a memoirTerry Galloway
The silence between usAlison Gervais
A curse so dark and lonelyBrigid Kemmerer
The kiss quotientHelen Hoang
Show me a signAnn Clare LeZotte
Unbroken : 13 stories starring disabled teens
Hello, universeErin Entrada Kelly
Out of my mindSharon M (Sharon Mills) Draper
Sal & Gabi break the universeCarlos Alberto Hernandez
StargazingJen Wang
EuphoriaLily King
Practical magicAlice Hoffman
The nickel boysColson Whitehead
Human actsKang Han
The sonPhilipp Meyer
Blood like magicLiselle Sambury
Salt to the seaRuta Sepetys
All's faire in middle schoolVictoria Jamieson
Amulet. Book 1,Kazu Kibuishi
Black boy joy : 17 stories celebrating Black boyhood
Out from BonevilleJeff Smith
Consent (for kids!) : boundaries, respect, and being in charge of youRachel Brian
Donner dinner partyNathan Hale
Front deskKelly Yang
Killer style : how fashion has injured, maimed, & murdered through historySerah-Marie McMahon
Kristy's great idea : a graphic novelRaina Telgemeier
Lowriders in spaceCathy Camper
MatildaRoald Dahl
Merci Suárez changes gearsMeg Medina
New kidJerry Craft
Number the starsLois Lowry
The one and only BobKatherine Applegate
PashminaNidhi Chanani
Sarai and the meaning of awesomeSaraí González
Space case : a Moon Base Alpha novelStuart Gibbs
The Stonewall Riots : coming out in the streetsGayle E Pitman
This is our rainbow : 16 stories of her, him, them, and us
We dream of spaceErin Entrada Kelly
The year I flew awayMarie Arnold
Last night at the Telegraph ClubMalinda Lo
All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifestoGeorge M Johnson
Out of darknessAshley Hope Pérez
Stamped : racism, antiracism, and youJason Reynolds
The marrow thievesCherie Dimaline
Being Jazz : my life as a (transgender) teenJazz Jennings
This one summerMariko Tamaki
Will Grayson, Will GraysonJohn Green
You should see me in a crownLeah Johnson
1984George Orwell
The bluest eyeToni Morrison
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