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RespectABILITY A selection of young adult fiction and nonfiction featuring main characters who have disabilities.
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Love and f1rst sight
by Josh Sundquist
Enduring a humiliating first day at his new school, blind 16-year-old Will struggles to adjust before falling for a charming, quiet girl and being selected to undergo an experimental surgery that could give him sight for the first time in his life.
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You're welcome, universe
by Whitney Gardner
Creating a graffiti mural to cover up a nasty slur about her best friend written on the back of their school for the deaf, Julia is expelled and is sent to a mainstream school where she is treated like an outcast while she continues to paint graffiti before a mysterious fellow artist starts adding creative touches to her work.
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A step toward falling
by Cammie McGovern
A follow-up to Say What You Will finds good-girl Emily bonding with a football player from her school while performing community service for her role in an attack on a disabled person.
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The one thing
by Marci Lyn Curtis
Rebelling in rage over losing her sight and her fair-weather friends, Maggie is astonished when she regains the ability to see a single person, a precocious 10-year-old boy who helps Maggie to reclaim her dreams.
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Girls like us
by Gail Giles
Graduating from their school's special education program, aggressive Quincy and shy Biddy are placed together in their first independent apartment and gradually discover unexpected things they share in common in the face of past challenges and a harrowing trauma.
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Run
by Kody Keplinger
A wild girl from a dysfunctional family and a straight-laced, legally blind girl with overbearing parents forge an unlikely best friendship that is tested by a brush with the law that compels the pair to run away, a decision that pits them against the authorities, ugly secrets and their own beliefs.
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The summer I found you
by Jolene B. Perry
Reeling after being dumped and diagnosed with Type-1 diabetes, Kate pursues a platonic relationship with young veteran Aidan, who lost an arm during his tour of Afghanistan, throughout a summer during which the pair realizes that they feel more than friendship for each other.
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Say what you will
by Cammie McGovern
A girl confined to a wheelchair by cerebral palsy and a boy stymied by an obsessive-compulsive disorder are assigned to spend time together in what becomes a blossoming friendship that neither expected.
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The Six
by Mark Alpert
Adam, crippled by muscular dystrophy, and five other terminally ill teenagers sacrifice their bodies and upload their minds into weaponized robots to battle a dangerously advanced artificial intelligence program bent on destroying humanity.
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Because you'll never meet me
by Leah Thomas
Ollie, a boy who experiences seizures if he comes in contact with electricity, and Moritz, whose weak heart is powered by an electric pacemaker, forge an unlikely friendship through letters sent from their respective world regions.
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A quiet kind of thunder
by Sara Barnard
Steffi doesn't talk. Rhys can't hear. They understand each other perfectly. Love isn't always a lightning strike. Sometimes it's the rumbling roll of thunder ... Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life - she's been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He's deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she's assigned to look after him. To Rhys it doesn't matter that Steffi doesn't talk and, as they find ways to communicate, Steffi finds that she does have a voice, and that she's falling in love with the one person who makes her feel brave enough to use it.
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Daredevil : the man without fear
by Frank Miller
Matt Murdock's life is changed dramatically after he is blinded by radioactive material while saving the life of an old man and develops super-senses.
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Wired man and other freaks of nature
by Sashi Kaufman
Relying on his friendship with the popular Tyler to compensate for needing hearing aids, Ben is forced to confront the realities of his disability, his own identity and the character of his friend when Tyler drops out during their senior year.
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Not if I see you first
by Eric Lindstrom
Demanding to be treated the same as everyone else in spite of her blindness, Parker doles out tough-love advice to her peers, refuses to cry after losing her father and stubbornly shuns a boy who broke her heart years earlier.
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Follow me back
by A. V. Geiger
Told through police transcripts, tweets, direct messages, and two voices, pop sensation Eric inadvertently falls in love with his biggest fan, agoraphobic Tessa, through deception, leading to a real-life meeting with dire consequences.
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Words on bathroom walls
by Julia Walton
Diagnosed with severe schizophrenia that causes him to see and hear people who are not there, Adam begins a drug trial to help him with his hallucinations at the same time he falls in love with an intelligent girl that he wants to prevent from discovering his secret.
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Mis(h)adra
by Iasmin Omar Ata
Isaac, an Arab-American college student, struggles to balance his daily life with his seizure triggers, but when nothing seems to work and his world becomes overwhelming, Isaac begins to wonder if epilepsy is unbeatable.
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