The Yarn
July 18, 2024 by Amanda MacGregor
Kate Lovejoy, the main character of our novel, Dancing In the Storm, has a rare genetic disorder called Fibrodsyplasia Ossificans Progressiva. You’ve probably never heard of it, but I have the same disorder.
April 26, 2024 by Amanda MacGregor
I hope my work will encourage others to think about disability in a broader context, whether that’s rethinking how disabled characters are portrayed or creating more opportunities for disabled writers to tell their own stories.
October 20, 2022 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Author Elaine Kachala talks about her nonfiction title which explores wearable technology
November 5, 2019 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Sick Kids in Love features two teens living their lives with chronic illness.
July 3, 2018 by Amanda MacGregor
When I was thirteen, my parents drove me to the University of North Carolina pediatric hospital and checked me in. I had a PICC line—a peripherally inserted central catheter—put in my left arm and a host of super-strength antibiotics pumped through it. We didn’t know when I’d be coming home. And, hardest of all for […]
January 11, 2018 by Karen Jensen, MLS
It’s the second week of January, which means we’re discussing the Letter A in YA A to Z. Today we are talking about amputees with the librarian and blogger Mindy Rhiger You can find out more about YA A to Z here. Perhaps I shouldn’t have chosen to read Phantom Limbs so quickly after reading Shark Girl. But […]
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October 31, 2017 by Amanda MacGregor
Publisher’s description Long ago, in a small village in the middle of a deep, dark forest, there lived a lonely, deaf girl named Maggie. Shunned by her village because of her disability, her only comfort comes from her vivid imagination. Maggie has a gift for inventing stories and dreams of one day finding her fairy-tale […]
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