Category: S

• ‘As Far As You’ll Take Me’- Stamper, Phil

  A story about finding the people who become your home. Marty arrives in London with nothing but his oboe and some savings from his summer job, but he’s excited to start his new life–where he’s no longer the closeted, shy kid who slips under the radar and is free to explore his sexuality without his…

  The Disability Archives

  12th Sep 2023

  Age, Anxiety, Author, Book Type, Contemporary, Disability, Eating Disorder, Fiction, Gay, Genre, LGBTQ+, Mental Health, Neurodivergent, Novels, Romance, S, Young Adult

  Anxiety, Eating Disorder, England, Europe, Fiction, Found Family, Gay, LGBTQ+, Mental Health, Music, Neurodivergence, Novel, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, Travel, USA, Young Adult

• ‘Black Disability Politics’- Schalk, Sami

  In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply tied to race and racism. She points out that this work has not…

  The Disability Archives

  11th Sep 2023

  Academic, Age, Author, Book Type, Disability, Disability Studies, Genre, Historical, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, S

  Academic, Activism, American History, Black Activism, Black Politics, Black Writer, Civil Rights, Disability Activism, Disability History, Disability Politics, Disability Studies, History, Non-Fiction, Politics, Race, Social Issues, Social Justice, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, USA

• ‘An Unkindness of Ghosts’- Solomon, Rivers

  Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She’s used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she’d be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her…

  The Disability Archives

  11th Sep 2023

  Adult, Age, Author, Autism, Book Type, Disability, Fantasy, Fiction, Genderfluid, Genderqueer, Genre, LGBTQ+, Neurodivergent, Non-Binary, Novels, Queer, S, Science-Fiction, Speculative

  Adult, Agender, Autism, Black MC, Fantasy, Fiction, Genderfluid, Genderqueer, LGBTQ+, Neurodivergence, Non-Binary, Queer, Science-Fiction, Social Issues, Space, Speculative Fiction, Stand Alone, Submitted Book

• ‘Being Seen’- Sjunneson, Elsa

  A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else. As a deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness—much to the confusion of…

  The Disability Archives

  10th Sep 2023

  Academic, Age, Author, Autobiography, Blind, Book Type, Creative Non-Fiction, Deaf, Deafblind, Disability, Genre, Hearing and Visual Disability, Hearing Disability, LGBTQ+, Memoir, Misc, Non-Fiction, Queer, S, Visual Disability

  Ableism, Activism, Deafblind, Disability Activism, Disability History, Disability Representation, Hearing and Visual Disability, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Social Issues, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, The Disabled Experience

• ‘Ali and the Sea Stars’- Stroker, Ali

  Tony Award-winning actress Ali Stroker captures the magic and community of theater in her debut picture book, about a spirited girl in a wheelchair who stages a show for her hometown. Based on the pivotal summer Ali performed in her first musical by the Jersey Shore! Ali loves to dance, sing, and act. But she…

  The Disability Archives

  9th Sep 2023

  Age, Author, Autobiography, Book Type, Childrens, Disability, Disability Aid User, Fiction, Genre, Mobility Aid User, Paralysis, Picture Books, R, Realistic, Reduced Mobility, S, Wheelchair User

  Childrens, Fiction, Paraplegic, Physical Disability, Picture Book, Realistic Fiction, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, USA, Wheelchair User

• ‘A Friend for Henry’- Bailey, Jenn

  In Classroom Six, second left down the hall, Henry has been on the lookout for a friend. A friend who shares. A friend who listens. Maybe even a friend who likes things to stay the same and all in order, as Henry does. But on a day full of too close and too loud, when…

  The Disability Archives

  8th Sep 2023

  Age, Author, Autism, B, Book Type, Childrens, Disability, Fiction, Genre, Neurodivergent, Picture Books, Realistic, S

  Autism, Childrens, Fiction, Neurodivergence, Picture Book, Realistic Fiction, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, USA