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Books from our Easy collection
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Bitsy Bat, Team Star
by Kaz Windness
After Bitsy Bat is outflown by a new, non-speaking student, Enzo Owl, Bitsy decides to beat Enzo in a race, but when a friend needs help, Bitsy must choose between helping and winning.
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The Boy Who Said Wow
by Todd Boss
Taking his nonverbal grandson to his first Mozart concert, Grandfather is stunned when, after the performance is over, Ronan opens his mouth and lets out a great big WOW- not any old WOW, but his very first WOW, which fills up the hearts of everyone around him.
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This is How We Play: A Celebration of Disability and Adaptation
by Jessica Slice
This book demystifies and respects how disabled people and their families use adaptive, imaginative, and considerate play so everyone can join in the fun. It includes a glossary of the different disabilities represented throughout the book and a guide for grown-ups on ways to encourage discussions about disabilities with the children in their lives.
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The Rock in my Throat
by Kao Kalia Yang
In this moving true story, Kao Kalia Yang shares her experiences as a Hmong refugee child navigating life at home and school in America while carrying the weight of her selective mutism.
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Like
by Annie Barrows
In a series of amusing comparisons, a boy shows how humans are much more like each other than we are like any other thing on Earth.
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What Happened to You?
by James Catchpole
Joe, a young boy trying to play pirates at the playground, keeps getting interrupted with questions about what happened to his leg, and gets more and more fed up until the kids finally understand they don't need to know what happened.
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A Day with No Words
by Tiffany Hammond
Young children will learn what life can look like for an Autism Family who use nonverbal communication by following a mother and child on a day where they use a tablet to communicate to others.
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The Same but Different Too
by Karl Newson
Depicts children and animal characters who equally celebrate both individuality and the qualities they share in common.
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Books from our Juvenile collection
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Benny on the Case
by Wesley King
Eleven-year-old Benny, a boy with Mosaic Down syndrome, navigates a new mainstream classroom, standing up to bullies, making new friends, and uncovering a government conspiracy threatening to close down the retirement home owned by his mother.
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Henry's Picture-Perfect Day
by Jenn Bailey
It's Picture Day and the teacher says the class will take a perfect picture, but Henry, a sensitive child on the autism spectrum, does not feel perfect, in a story about embracing life's messier moments and one's uniqueness.
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The Bionic Boy
by Lynn Plourde
A superhero-loving boy born without hands finds the hero inside himself.
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Hazel Has Her Hands Full
by Nathan Fairbairn
Hazel wants to cat-sit during the summer but her friends on the PAWS team are busy so Hazel has to do it herself, but when disaster strikes, Hazel must hold it together and prove she can handle what comes her way.
Please note: This book is shelved in the Juvenile Graphic Novel section.
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Bat And The Business Of Ferrets
by Elana K. Arnold
In a story featuring an unforgettable boy on the autism spectrum, Bixby Alexander Tam (nicknamed “Bat”) is starting fourth grade, and he and his best friend, Israel, want to convince the teacher to have a class pet.
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The Chance to Fly
by Ali Stroker
After moving across the country, thirteen-year-old Natalie auditions for her new school's play and overcomes her fears and insecurities about performing in a wheelchair.
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Jessi's Secret Language
by Ann M. Martin
Feeling isolated as the only African American in her sixth grade class, Jessi gains a sense of belonging by participating in the Baby-sitters Club, learning sign language in order to communicate with a deaf child, and dancing in a ballet.
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The Little Kid with the Big Green Hand
by Matthew Gray Gubler
Join two unlikely friends, Chuck and Lenore, as they embark on a surreal journey of self-discovery and uncover the magic of seeing the world through someone else's eyes.
Please note: This book is shelved in the Juvenile Graphic Novel section.
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The Storm Runner
by Jennifer Cervantes
A contemporary adventure inspired by Mayan mythology follows the experiences of an avid explorer with a disabled leg who discovers that the dormant volcano near his home in New Mexico is a gateway to another world.
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El Deafo
by Cece Bell
A poignant graphic tale based on the creator's own experiences with hearing loss follows the adventures of young Cece, who develops "superpowers" to manage the challenges of making friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid that sometimes lets her hear things she shouldn't.
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Books from our Teen collection
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The Extraordinary Orbit of Alex Ramirez
by Jasminne Paulino
Alex, a neurodiverse seventh grader, works to convince his teachers and parents that he is ready to leave his self-contained classroom and join his grade's mainstream science class.
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Komi Can't Communicate, Volume 33
by Tomohito Oda
Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi's greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve. Luckily she meets Tadano, a timid wallflower who decides to step out of his comfort zone in order to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends. With Tadano's loving encouragement, Komi is spending her final year of high school slowly expanding her comfort zone by volunteering to be the class representative, resolving to win the sports festival, and even talking to strangers.
Please note: This book is shelved in the Teen Graphic Novel section.
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Very Bad at Math
by Hope Larson
Student body president Verity Nelson can do it all, except math, until a teacher helps her discover she has a learning disability that causes her to mix up the numbers and this knowledge gives her a new perspective.
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Air
by Monica Roe
Twelve-and-a-half year old Emelyn Ethrige lives with her widowed father in South Carolina, dreams of wheelchair motocross, and makes custom chair bags trying to earn enough money to buy a serious set of wheels. Emelyn has been in a wheelchair all her life and is very independent. Since her mom died, it seems like everyone has started treating her gently, urging caution and trying to "help". For a girl who loves speed and big air tricks it is frustrating--so Emelyn and her best friends come up with a plan to help her family see her abilities, rather than her limitations.
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Things I Should Have Known: A Novel
by Claire Scovell LaZebnik
Searching for her autistic sister's soulmate, a Los Angeles teen finds the ideal candidate only to clash with his older brother, who is just as devoted to his younger sibling as she is to hers.
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Chronically Dolores
by Maya Van Wagenen
Dolores Mendoza is not thriving. She was recently diagnosed with a chronic bladder condition called interstitial cystitis. The painful disease isn't life threatening, but it is threatening to ruin her life. Just when things seem hopeless, Dolores meets someone poised to change her fate. Terpsichore Berkenbosch-Jones is glamorous, autistic, and homeschooled against her will by her overprotective mother. After a rocky start, the girls form a tentative partnership. Beautiful, talented Terpsichore will help Dolores win back her ex-best friend, Shae. And Dolores will convince Terpsichore's mom that her daughter has the social skills to survive public school. It seems like a foolproof plan, but Dolores isn't always a reliable narrator, and her choices may put her in danger of committing an unforgivable betrayal.
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Tilly in Technicolor
by Mazey Eddings
When eighteen-year-old Tilly goes to London to intern for her sister's company, she begins to unmask her ADHD and connects with Oliver, another neurodivergent intern.
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Weirdo
by Tony Weaver
Eleven-year-old Tony Weaver, Jr. loves comic books, anime, and video games, and idolizes the heroic, larger-than-life characters he finds there. But his new classmates all think he's a weirdo. Bullied by his peers, Tony struggles with the hurt of not being accepted and tries to conform to other people's expectations. After a traumatic event shakes him to his core, he embarks on a journey of self-love that will require him to become the hero of his own story.
Please note: This title is shelved in the Teen Graphic Novel section.
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Forever is Now
by Mariama Lockington
Suffering from agoraphobia after witnessing a scene of police brutality, Sadie discovers, with the help of family, friends and online activists, that she can build a safe place inside herself.
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Where You See Yourself
by Claire Forrest
Having her heart set on a college in NYC with a major in Mass Media & Society, disabled high school senior Effie learns that sometimes growing up means being open to a world of possibilities you never even dreamed of.
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