Tag: Germany

• ‘Crazy’- Lebert, Benjamin

  A smart, funny, poignant, very modern autobiographical coming-of-age novel, written when the author was sixteen years old. Like Catcher in the Rye, Crazy appeals to the teenager in us all. Benni himself is partially paralyzed and a serial failure (he’s been kicked out of four boarding schools in his short life and has just entered…

  The Disability Archives

  27th Oct 2023

  Age, Author, Autobiography, Book Type, Contemporary, Disability, Fiction, Genre, L, Novels, Paralysis, Physical Disability, Realistic, Young Adult

  Autobiography, Boarding School, Coming of Age, Contemporary, Fiction, Germany, Novel, Paralysis, Partial-Paralysis, Physical Disability, Realistic Fiction, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, Translated, Young Adult

• ‘Breath’- Napoli, Donna Jo

  Salz is a boy afflicted with cystic fibrosis — though in the Middle Ages in Saxony no one can identify it as such. Instead he is an outcast, living with his unfeeling father and superstitious brothers in a hovel outside Hameln. His grandmother has kept Salz alive by having him avoid the mead and beer…

  The Disability Archives

  1st Oct 2023

  Age, Author, Book Type, Cystic Fibrosis, Disability, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Fiction, Genre, Historical, N, Novels, Physical Disability, Retelling, Young Adult

  Cystic Fibrosis, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Fiction, Germany, Historical, Medieval Setting, Novel, Physical Disability, Retelling, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, Young Adult