Tag: Medieval Setting

• ‘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

• ‘Black Bird, Blue Road’- Pasternack, Sofiya

  In this historical fantasy novel from Sydney Taylor Honor winner and National Jewish Book Award finalist Sofiya Pasternack, Ziva will do anything to save her twin brother Pesah from his illness–even facing the Angel of Death himself. Pesah has lived with leprosy for years, and the twins have spent most of that time working on…

  The Disability Archives

  29th Sep 2023

  Adventure, Age, Author, Book Type, Chronic Illness, Disability, Fantasy, Fiction, Genre, Historical, Leprosy, Middle-Grade, Novels, P, Physical Disability, Terminal Illness

  Adventure, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Jewish Characters, Khazaria, Leprosy, Medieval Setting, Middle-Grade, Novel, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, Terminal Illness, Turkic MC