Be a more inclusive reader and celebrate those with disabilities! Read a book featuring a main character with a disability like these below 😉
Song for a Whale
Lynne Kelly
Twelve-year-old Iris and her grandmother, both deaf, fly from Texas to California and then take a cruise ship to Alaska– armed with Iris’s plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with other whales.
Blind
Rachel DeWoskin
When a tragic accident leaves her blind, fifteen-year-old Emma Sasha Silver must relearn everything from recognizing her family, to remembering colors, to getting around. Then, just as she’s about to reenter school, a classmate’s body is found, with all signs pointing to suicide. Determined to understand the girl’s actions–and to avoid being perceived as a poor blind kid–Emma sets out to unite her classmates to explore the situation…
Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem
Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in the most startling and original ways. Life without his boss, Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, (a small-time mobster) would be unimaginable…until it’s not. Frank is suddenly & fatally stabbed and the group falls apart. Lionel, the outcast who has trouble even conversing, attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight and the world making sense.
The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro & Daniel Kraus
In 1962, Elisa Esposito– mute her whole life– works as a janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore’s Occam Aerospace Research Center. Only Zelda, a protective coworker, and Giles, her loving neighbor, help her make it through her day. Then she sees something she was never meant to see: an amphibious man, captured in the Amazon, to be studied for Cold War advancements. Using sign language, the two learn to communicate. However, Richard Strickland, the obsessed soldier who tracked the asset through the Amazon, wants nothing more than to dissect it before the Russians get a chance to steal it.
Me Before You
Jojo Moyes
Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life–steady boyfriend, close family–who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident. Will has always lived a huge life–big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel–and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. Will is acerbic, moody, bossy–but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living.
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