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Read a Book Featuring a Character with Differing Abilities
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Tornado Brain
by Cat Patrick
When her former best friend abruptly disappears, a neurodiverse seventh grader who struggles with sensory limits and routine changes attempts to follow clues to find the missing girl before it is too late.
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Roll with It
by Jamie Sumner
Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease.
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Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus
by Dusti Bowling
After navigating middle school, ninth-grader Aven, born without arms, struggles with the challenges of high school, which test her confidence, strength, and sense of self.
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Freak the Mighty
by W. R. Philbrick
At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team.
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The Running Dream
by Wendelin Van Draanen
Losing her leg in a car accident and fitted with a prosthetic that challenges her athletic ambitions, Jessica finds herself alienated from former friends and is tutored by a misfit girl she previously avoided.
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Dying to Know You
by Aidan Chambers
In a contemporary love story, a teenage boy named Karl solicits help from girlfriend Fiorella's favorite author when she asks Karl to write her a letter in which he reveals his true self, so when the writer reluctantly assents, on condition that Karl agrees to a series of interviews for the sake of authenticity, the letter has unexpected consequences for Karl, Fiorella and the writer.
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Unbroken : 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens
by Marieke Nijkamp
Edited by the best-selling author of This Is Where It Ends, an inspirational anthology of stories featuring disabled and neurodiverse teen main characters includes contributions by such leading authors as Kody Keplinger, Katherine Locke and Fox Benwell.
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Cursed
by Karol Ruth Silverstein
Depicts young teen Ricky Bloom's struggles with her recent chronic illness diagnosis, which comes amid family upheaval and challenges at school.
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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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Dangerous
by Shannon Hale
When aspiring astronaut Maisie Danger Brown and the other space camp students get the opportunity to do something amazing in space, Maisie must prove how dangerous she can be and how far she is willing to go to protect everything she has ever loved.
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