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Tag: Disabilities

September 1, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

Inclusion Doesn’t Always Mean Representation, a guest post by Chaz Hayden

Much like how my main character, Harris, doesn’t want his wheelchair to be the first thing people notice about him, as the author, I don’t want disability to be the only takeaway from my book.

May 5, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

Writing Disability and Immigration from a Place of Wholeness, a guest post by Natalia Sylvester

When I finally found my way to writing a novel about growing up as an immigrant with hip dysplasia, it was this wholeness—not parts of me segmented into boxes—that guided me. I wrote Breathe and Count Back from Ten because the only way I can imagine creating books in a world that draws boundaries around my identity is to write myself beyond them.

February 25, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

The magic of seeing ALL of yourself in media, a guest post by Katryn Bury

When we let children be more than just the sum of their parts, that's when we'll truly see the magic in our world.

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Princesses Can Have Dyslexia Too, a guest post by Laura Rueckert

August 5, 2021 by Amanda MacGregor

It wasn't until an industry review called the inclusion of a dyslexic princess "welcome, if not unprecedented" that I realized my main character Jiara might be unique in publishing.

Books and Libraries Can Strengthen the Superpowers of Teens With ADHD, a guest post by Kirsten Lambert

February 27, 2020 by Amanda MacGregor

More 6 million American children, ages 2–17, have an ADHD diagnosis. Here are some books and other resources to help better serve these kids in our schools and libraries.

Anger, inspiration, and the stories we tell, a guest post by Marieke Nijkamp

January 18, 2018 by Amanda MacGregor

Before I Let Go tells the story of two girls in the arctic heart of Alaska. Two girls who were best friends, who were discovering who they could be, who were each other’s center of gravity. It tells of  grief and ice, of mystery and mental illness. And it was, at least in part, born […]

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#SJYALit Reading Lists: Disability in YA Lit, a guest post by Natalie Korsavidis

February 7, 2017 by Amanda MacGregor

As part of our 2017 Social Justice in Young Adult Literature project, we will be posting reading lists on various social justice-related subjects. Guest blogger Natalie Korsavidis pulled together this one on disabilities. We will mainly be focusing on books published after 2000. We encourage you to add any other titles you can think of in […]

Book Review: Love and First Sight by Josh Sundquist

January 5, 2017 by Amanda MacGregor

Publisher’s description In his debut novel, YouTube personality and author of We Should Hang Out Sometime Josh Sundquist explores the nature of love, trust, and romantic attraction. On his first day at a new school, blind sixteen-year-old Will Porter accidentally groped a girl on the stairs, sat on another student in the cafeteria, and somehow […]

Book Review: Run by Kody Keplinger

June 28, 2016 by Amanda MacGregor

Publisher’s description Bo Dickinson is a girl with a wild reputation, a deadbeat dad, and a mama who’s not exactly sober most of the time. Everyone in town knows the Dickinsons are a bad lot, but Bo doesn’t care what anyone thinks. Agnes Atwood has never gone on a date, never even stayed out past […]

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