The Disability Book Archive

[ID: Cover for the book “Hummingbird” by Natalie Lloyd. The authors name is at the top of the cove in white capitals. The title is in the centre of the cover, in large blue, pink and white glittering capitals. Cover art shows a person in a wheelchair with long hair. The wheelchair says “Olive” on the back. The person appears to be on a wooden floor or stage, with lights or an audience in front of them. There is a glittering blue hummingbird above the title. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Medical Content
• Injury
• Injury Detail
• Ableism
• Broken Bones

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Summary:

Bestselling author Natalie Lloyd returns with her most personal book to date, a story about a girl who—armed with her trusty, snazzy wheelchair—refuses to let her brittle bone disease stand in the way of adventure.

Twelve-year-old homeschooled Olive is tired of being seen as “fragile” just because she has osteogenesis imperfecta (otherwise known as brittle bone disease) so she’s thrilled when she finally convinces her parents to let her attend Macklemore Elementary. Olive can’t wait to go to a traditional school and make the friends she’s always longed for, until a disastrous first day dashes her hopes of ever fitting in.

Then Olive hears whispers about a magical, wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives near Macklemore. It’ll be the solution to all her problems! If she can find the bird and prove herself worthy, the creature will make her most desperate, secret wish come true.

When it becomes clear that she can’t solve the mystery on her own, Olive teams up with some unlikely allies who help her learn the truth about the bird. And on the way, she just might learn that our fragile places lead us to the most wonderful magic of all . .

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Notes:

There is an audiobook.

There is a kindle edition.

A list of awards that this book has been nominated for:

• Schneider Family Book Award Nominee for Middle Grades (2023)
• Pennsylvania Young Readers’ Choice Award Nominee for Grades 3-6 (2025)
• Charlie May Simon Children’s Book Award Nominee (2025)
• Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award for Intermediate (2024) (Winner)
• Mark Twain Readers Award Nominee (2025)
• Junior Library Guild Selection
• Bookpage Best Middle Grade Book (2022)
• Nerdy Book Club Pick (2022)
• Texas Lone Star Reading List Selection (2023)
• Amazon Editor’s Pick

Here is a link to the author’s website.

More of Lloyd’s books on the Archive:

• A Snicker of Magic

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Archivist Comments:

Someone went through last night and suggested 4 of Lloyd’s books, which was very much appreciated.

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