The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. Text at the top reads:
The author’s name “Jules Machias” in blue capitals. The title “Fight + Flight” immediately below this in larger purple writing. “Fight” is capitalised and looks like it has been drawn in chalk. “Flight” is written in cursive. Below this, art of two young girls. The one on the left has short, brown hair, purple headphones, a white and yellow long sleeved shirt and their right arm in a black sling. The girl on the right has long braided blond hair, a purple pen behind their right ear, a short sleeved blue shirt and a purple sketchbook under their right arm. Purple squiggles and scribbles of various sizes are behind the first girl. Pastel orange and pink flowers are behind the second girl. /end]

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Content Warning:

• School Shooting Drill
• Panic Attacks
• Death
• Ableism
• Homophobia
• Animal Death
• Vomit

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Summary:

Avery Hart lives for the thrill and speed of her dirt bike and the pounding thump of her drum kit. But after she’s diagnosed with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a disease that affects her joints, Avery splits her time between endless physical therapy and worrying that her fun and independence are over for good. Sarah Bell is familiar with worry, too. For months, she’s been having intense panic attacks. No matter how much she pours her anxiety into making art, she can’t seem to get a grip on it, and she’s starting to wonder if she’ll be this way forever.

Just as both girls are reaching peak fear about what their futures hold, their present takes a terrifying turn when their school is seemingly attacked by gunmen. Though they later learn it was an active shooter drill, the traumatic experience bonds the girls together in a friendship that will change the way they view their perceived weaknesses—and help them find strength, and more, in each other.

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Notes:

There is an audiobook.

There is an ebook/Kindle version.

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Archivist Comments:

I love the pastel tones on this cover.

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