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The Disability Library

I love books, I love literature, and I love this blog, but it's only been recently that I've really been given the option to explore disabled literature, and I hate that. When I was a kid, all I wanted was to be able to read about characters like me, and now as an adult, all I want is to be able to read a book that takes us seriously.

And so, friends, Romans, countrymen, I present, a special disability and chronic illness booklist, compiled by myself and through the contributions of wonderful members from this site!

As always, if there are any at all that you want me to add, please just say. I'm always looking for more!

Edit 20/10/2023: You can now suggest books using the google form at the bottom!

Updated: 31/08/2023

Articles and Chapters

The Drifting Language of Architectural Accessibility in Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris, Essaka Joshua, 2012

Early Modern Literature and Disability Studies, Allison P. Hobgood, David Houston Wood, 2017

How Do You Develop Whole Object Relations as an Adult?, Elinor Greenburg, 2019

Making Do with What You Don't Have: Disabled Black Motherhood in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, Anna Hinton, 2018

Necropolitics, Achille Mbeme, 2003 OR Necropolitics, Achille Mbeme, 2019

Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts, Zygmunt Bauman, 2004

Witchcraft and deformity in early modern English Literature, Scott Eaton, 2020

Books

Fiction:

Misc:

10 Things I Can See From Here, Carrie Mac

A-F:

A Curse So Dark and Lonely, (Series), Brigid Kemmerer

Akata Witch, (Series), Nnedi Okorafor

A Mango-Shaped Space, Wendy Mass

Ancillary Justice, (Series), Ann Leckie

An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon

An Unseen Attraction, (Series), K. J. Charles

A Shot in the Dark, Victoria Lee

A Snicker of Magic, Natalie Lloyd

A Song of Ice and Fire, (series), George R. R. Martin

A Spindle Splintered, (Series), Alix E. Harrow

A Time to Dance, Padma Venkatraman

Bath Haus, P. J. Vernon

Beasts of Prey, (Series), Ayana Gray

The Bedlam Stacks, (Series), Natasha Pulley

Black Bird, Blue Road, Sofiya Pasternack

Black Sun, (Series), Rebecca Roanhorse

Blood Price, (Series), Tanya Huff

Borderline, (Series), Mishell Baker

Breath, Donna Jo Napoli

The Broken Kingdoms, (Series), N.K. Jemisin

Brute, Kim Fielding

Cafe con Lychee, Emery Lee

Carry the Ocean, (Series), Heidi Cullinan

Challenger Deep, Neal Shusterman

Cinder, (Series), Marissa Meyer

Clean, Amy Reed

Connection Error, (Series), Annabeth Albert

Cosima Unfortunate Steals A Star, Laura Noakes

Crazy, Benjamin Lebert

Crooked Kingdom, (Series), Leigh Bardugo

Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots, (Series), Cat Sebastian

Daniel, Deconstructed, James Ramos

Dead in the Garden, (Series), Dahlia Donovan

Dear Fang, With Love, Rufi Thorpe

Deathless Divide, (Series), Justina Ireland

The Degenerates, J. Albert Mann

The Doctor's Discretion, E.E. Ottoman

Earth Girl, (Series), Janet Edwards

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Emily R. Austin

The Extraordinaries, (Series), T. J. Klune

The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict, (Series), Trenton Lee Stewart

Fight + Flight, Jules Machias

The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix

Finding My Voice, (Series), Aoife Dooley

The First Thing About You, Chaz Hayden

Follow My Leader, James B. Garfield

Forever Is Now, Mariama J. Lockington

Fortune Favours the Dead, (Series), Stephen Spotswood

Fresh, Margot Wood

H-0:

Harmony, London Price

Harrow the Ninth, (series), Tamsyn Muir

Hench, (Series), Natalia Zina Walschots

Highly Illogical Behaviour, John Corey Whaley

Honey Girl, Morgan Rogers

How to Become a Planet, Nicole Melleby

How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager, (Series), D. N. Bryn

How to Sell Your Blood & Fall in Love, (Series), D. N. Bryn

Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites, Joy Demorra

I Am Not Alone, Francisco X. Stork

The Immeasurable Depth of You, Maria Ingrande Mora

In the Ring, Sierra Isley

Into The Drowning Deep, (Series), Mira Grant

Iron Widow, (Series), Xiran Jay Zhao

Izzy at the End of the World, K. A. Reynolds

Jodie's Journey, Colin Thiele

Just by Looking at Him, Ryan O'Connell

Kissing Doorknobs, Terry Spencer Hesser

Lakelore, Anna-Marie McLemore

Learning Curves, (Series), Ceillie Simkiss

Let's Call It a Doomsday, Katie Henry

The Library of the Dead, (Series), TL Huchu

The Lion Hunter, (Series), Elizabeth Wein

Lirael, (Series), Garth Nix

Long Macchiatos and Monsters, Alison Evans

Love from A to Z, (Series), S.K. Ali

Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses, Kristen O'Neal

Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

The Never Tilting World, (Series), Rin Chupeco

The No-Girlfriend Rule, Christen Randall

Nona the Ninth, (series), Tamsyn Muir

Noor, Nnedi Okorafor

Odder Still, (Series), D. N. Bryn

Once Stolen, (Series), D. N. Bryn

One For All, Lillie Lainoff

On the Edge of Gone, Corinne Duyvis

Origami Striptease, Peggy Munson

Our Bloody Pearl, (Series), D. N. Bryn

Out of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper

P-T:

Parable of the Sower, (Series), Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Talents, (Series), Octavia E. Butler

Percy Jackson & the Olympians, (series), Rick Riordan

Pomegranate, Helen Elaine Lee

The Prey of Gods, Nicky Drayden

The Pursuit Of..., (Series), Courtney Milan

The Queen's Thief, (Series), Megan Whalen Turner

The Quiet and the Loud, Helena Fox

The Raging Quiet, Sheryl Jordan

The Reanimator's Heart, (Series), Kara Jorgensen

The Remaking of Corbin Wale, Joan Parrish

Roll with It, (Series), Jamie Sumner

Russian Doll, (Series), Cristelle Comby

The Second Mango, (Series), Shira Glassman

Scar of the Bamboo Leaf, Sieni A.M

Shaman, (Series), Noah Gordon

Sick Kids in Love, Hannah Moskowitz

The Silent Boy, Lois Lowry

Six of Crows, (Series) Leigh Bardugo

Sizzle Reel, Carlyn Greenwald

The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal

The Stagsblood Prince, (Series), Gideon E. Wood

Stake Sauce, Arc 1: The Secret Ingredient is Love. No, Really, (Series), RoAnna Sylver

Stars in Your Eyes, Kacen Callender [Expected release: Oct 2023]

The Storm Runner, (Series), J. C. Cervantes

Stronger Still, (Series), D. N. Bryn

Sweetblood, Pete Hautman

Tarnished Are the Stars, Rosiee Thor

The Theft of Sunlight, (Series), Intisar Khanani

Throwaway Girls, Andrea Contos

Top Ten, Katie Cotugno

Torch, Lyn Miller-Lachmann

Treasure, Rebekah Weatherspoon

Turtles All the Way Down, John Green

U-Z:

Unlicensed Delivery, Will Soulsby-McCreath Expected release October 2023

Verona Comics, Jennifer Dugan

Vorkosigan Saga, (Series), Lois McMaster Bujold

We Are the Ants, (Series), Shaun David Hutchinson

The Weight of Our Sky, Hanna Alkaf

Whip, Stir and Serve, Caitlyn Frost and Henry Drake

The Whispering Dark, Kelly Andrew

Wicked Sweet, Chelsea M. Cameron

Wonder, (Series), R. J. Palacio

Wrong to Need You, (Series), Alisha Rai

Ziggy, Stardust and Me, James Brandon

Graphic Novels:

A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability, (Non-Fiction), A. Andrews

Constellations, Kate Glasheen

Dancing After TEN: a graphic memoir, (memoir) (Non-Fiction), Vivian Chong, Georgia Webber

Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures, (memoir) (Non-Fiction), Jason Adam Katzenstein

Frankie's World: A Graphic Novel, (Series), Aoife Dooley

The Golden Hour, Niki Smith

Nimona, N. D. Stevenson

The Third Person, (memoir) (Non-Fiction), Emma Grove

Magazines and Anthologies:

Artificial Divide, (Anthology), Robert Kingett, Randy Lacey

Beneath Ceaseless Skies #175: Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds, (Article), R. B. Lemburg

Defying Doomsday, (Anthology), edited by Tsana Dolichva and Holly Kench

Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, (short story) (anthology), Seiko Tanabe

Nothing Without Us, edited by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson

Nothing Without Us Too, edited by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson

Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens, (Anthology), edited by Marieke Nijkamp

Uncanny #24: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, (Anthology), edited by: Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Dominik Parisien et al.

Uncanny #30: Disabled People Destroy Fantasy, (Anthology), edited by: Nicolette Barischoff, Lisa M. Bradley, Katharine Duckett

We Shall Be Monsters, edited by Derek Newman-Stille

Manga:

Perfect World, (Series), Rie Aruga

The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud, (Short Stories), Kuniko Tsurita

Non-Fiction:

Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education, Jay Timothy Dolmage

A Disability History of the United States, Kim E, Nielsen

The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access, David Gissen

Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism, Elsa Sjunneson

Black Disability Politics, Sami Schalk

Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid Adaptations: The Pursuit of Love, Admiration, and Safety, Dr. Elinor Greenburg

Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, Eli Clare

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability, Barker, Clare and Stuart Murray, editors.

The Capacity Contract: Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship, Stacy Clifford Simplican

Capitalism and Disability, Martha Russel

Care work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Catatonia, Shutdown and Breakdown in Autism: A Psycho-Ecological Approach, Dr Amitta Shah

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Esme Weijun Wang

Crip Kinship, Shayda Kafai

Crip Up the Kitchen: Tools, Tips and Recipes for the Disabled Cook, Jules Sherred

Culture – Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies, Anne Waldschmidt, Hanjo Berressem, Moritz Ingwersen

Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition, Liat Ben-Moshe

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally, Emily Ladau

Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World, Ben Mattlin

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-First Century, Alice Wong

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability and Making Space, Amanda Leduc

Every Cripple a Superhero, Christoph Keller

Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation, Eli Clare

Feminist Queer Crip, Alison Kafer

The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Growing Up Disabled in Australia, Carly Findlay

It's Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability, Kelly Davio

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot

Language Deprivation & Deaf Mental Health, Neil S. Glickman, Wyatte C. Hall

The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability, Elizabeth Barnes

My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick, Lyndsey Medford

No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s, Sarah F. Rose

Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment, James I. Charlton

The Pedagogy of Pathologization Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus, Subini Ancy Annamma

Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature, Essaka Joshua

QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology, Raymond Luczak, Editor.

The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, Jasbir K. Puar

Sitting Pretty, (memoir), Rebecca Taussig

Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black & Deaf in the South, Mary Herring Wright

Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness: How to Stay Sane and Live One Step Ahead of Your Symptoms, Ilana Jacqueline

The Things We Don't Say: An Anthology of Chronic Illness Truths, Julie Morgenlender

Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability, Scott T. Smith, José Alaniz

Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman, (memoir), Laura Kate Dale

Unmasking Autism, Devon Price

The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe, Ellen Clifford

We've Got This: Essays by Disabled Parents, Eliza Hull

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life, (memoir) (essays) Alice Wong

Picture Books:

A Day With No Words, Tiffany Hammond, Kate Cosgrove-

A Friend for Henry, Jenn Bailey, Mika Song

Ali and the Sea Stars, Ali Stroker, Gillian Reid

All Are Welcome, Alexandra Penfold, Suzanne Kaufman

All the Way to the Top, Annette Bay Pimentel, Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, Nabi Ali

Can Bears Ski?, Raymond Antrobus, Polly Dunbar

Different -- A Great Thing to Be!, Heather Alvis, Sarah Mensinga

Everyone Belongs, Heather Alvis, Sarah Mensinga

I Talk Like a River, Jordan Scott, Sydney Smith

Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream, K. T. Johnson, Anabella Ortiz

Just Ask!, Sonia Sotomayor, Rafael López

Kami and the Yaks, Andrea Stenn Stryer, Bert Dodson

My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay, Cari Best, Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Rescue & Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship, Jessica Kensky, Patrick Downes, Scott Magoon

Sam's Super Seats, Keah Brown, Sharee Miller

Small Knight and the Anxiety Monster, Manka Kasha

We Move Together, Kelly Fritsch, Anne McGuire, Eduardo Trejos

We're Different, We're the Same, and We're All Wonderful!, Bobbi Jane Kates, Joe Mathieu

What Happened to You?, James Catchpole, Karen George

The World Needs More Purple People, Kristen Bell, Benjamin Hart, Daniel Wiseman

You Are Enough: A Book About Inclusion, Margaret O'Hair, Sofia Sanchez, Sofia Cardoso

You Are Loved: A Book About Families, Margaret O'Hair, Sofia Sanchez, Sofia Cardoso

The You Kind of Kind, Nina West, Hayden Evans

Zoom!, Robert Munsch, Michael Martchenko

Plays:

Peeling, Kate O'Reilly

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ggpost · 1 month ago

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Ogni volta che decidi perdi qualcosa.. Qualunque cosa tu decida.. È sempre questione di capire cos'è che non sei disposto a perdere..

- Francisco X. Stork

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shorlibteens · 5 months ago

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The month of July is a great time to celebrate the disabled community and to reflect on how to make our communities more accessible. Check out one of these disability-themed reads this month and help us celebrate disability pride!

Fiction

Give Me A Sign / Anna Sortino

The Fall of Whit Rivera / Crystal Maldonado

Tilly in Technicolor / Mazey Eddings

I Am Not Alone / Francisco X. Stork

Breathe and Count Backwards from Ten / Natalia Sylvester

Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses / Kristen O'Neal

Comic & Graphic Novel

Hawkeye, Vol. 1 / Matt Fraction, David Aja, Javier Pulido

Brooms / Jasmine Walls

Last Pick, Vol. 1 / Jason Walz

The Oracle Code / Marieke Nijkamp and Manuel Preitano

Archival Quality / Ivy Noelle Weir

Nonfiction & Short Stories

Disability Visibility: 17 First-Person Stories For Today / edited by Alice Wong

The Beasts in Your Brain: Understanding and Living with Anxiety and Depression / Katherine Speller

Unbroken: 13 stories starring disabled teens / edited by Marieke Nijkamp

(Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 voices start the conversation about mental health / edited by Kelly Jensen

Just Peachy / Holly Chisholm

Check them out today at your local library!

#disability pride #ya books #recommended reads #books & libraries #disability pride month

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cozycoffeereads · 1 year ago

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Books with Disability Representation

Unseelie by Ivelisse Housman: Autism, YA fantasy

You’re Welcome, Universe by Whitney Gardner: Deaf, YA contemporary fiction

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao: chronic pain, difficulty walking, YA fantasy

Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly: deaf, middle grade contemporary fiction

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo: has a limp, uses cane. Author is also disabled. YA fantasy

Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headly: lung disease, YA fantasy

Marcelo In The Real World by Francisco X. Stork: Autism, YA contemporary fiction

Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma: Deafblind, nonfiction

Get A Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert: chronic pain, romance

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr: blind, historical fiction

True Biz by Sara Nović: Deaf, fiction, lgbtqia+

One Two Three by Laurie Frankel: autism, wheelchair user using communication device. Contemporary fiction.

So Lucky by Nicola Griffith: multiple sclerosis. Author also has MS. Fiction, lgbtqia+.

Borderline by Mishell Baker: amputated legs, borderline personality. Fantasy.

#booklr #book recommendations #book recs #disability pride month #bookblr #book blog #disability community

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thingsilikealex99a · 1 year ago

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Noel Toy (born Ngum Yee Hom) was an American burlesque performer, known for her fan and bubble dances (no such thing as an original idea, I suppose.). She performed in San Francisco at the Forbidden City Nightclub and in New York at the Stork Club. These images (taken at Leon & Eddie's, one of New York's leading nightclubs of the day) were actually featured in a profile of her in LIFE magazine in the early forties.

She retired from burlesque in 1945 and went on to have a successful film career.

Speaking of "no such thing as an original idea", the fan dance remains popular today. Stay tuned...

#Burlesque

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magikmarkers · 4 months ago

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We’re coming for you

July 19 Oakland

Stork Club with Famous

Mammals and Loose

July 20 Sacramento

V Street House with with Neutrals, Seablite, and Collate

July 22 Santa Cruz

Sub Rosa with Rip Florence and Leshy

July 24 Ojai

at Signal with Rob Magill

July 25 LA

Zebulon with Carlos Giffoni, and Useless Limbs

Julv 28 San Francisco

at Edinburgh Castle With Zebra Secrets

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#magik markers #elisa ambrogio #drag city #pete nolan #john shaw #2024

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ireadyabooks · 7 months ago

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Books That Make You Feel Less Alone 💚

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month in May, all of us at I read YA have rounded up some of our favorite books that make us feel less alone. Below, you’ll find some moving and important reads that speak honestly and powerfully about mental health. Share with us some books that make you feel less alone!

I Am Not Alone by Francisco X. Stork

Award-winning author Francisco X. Stork revisits some of the themes and ideas that made Marcelo in the Real World such an unforgettable novel.

Alberto's life isn't easy: He's an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who lives with his sister's abusive boyfriend—but he'd always accepted his place in the world. Until he starts hearing the voice of a man called Captain America, a voice that wants him to achieve more, no matter the cost.

Grace has it all: She has a supportive boyfriend, she's on track to be valedictorian, and she's sure to go to the college of her dreams. Still, nothing feels right to her any more after the divorce of her parents, and feels she needs something more.

When Alberto and Grace meet, they have an immediate and electric connection. But when Alberto is present at the scene of a terrible crime, he becomes a suspect. And with his developing schizophrenia, he's not even sure he believes in his own innocence.

Can Grace find a way to prove Alberto's innocence to himself and the world?

This is a page-turning thriller and a sensitive story about mental health, love, and community that will appeal to anyone who has struggled with their place in the world, from award-winning author Francisco X. Stork.

Start reading I Am Not Alone now!

I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman

From the bestselling creator of Heartstopper and Loveless, a deeply funny and deeply moving exploration of identity, friendship, and fame.

For Angel Rahimi life is about one thing: The Ark -- a boy band that's taking the world by storm. Being part of The Ark's fandom has given her everything she loves -- her friend Juliet, her dreams, her place in the world. Her Muslim family doesn't understand the band's allure -- but Angel feels there are things about her they'll never understand.

Jimmy Kaga-Ricci owes everything to The Ark. He's their frontman -- and playing in a band with his mates is all he ever dreamed of doing, even if it only amplifies his anxiety. The fans are very accepting that he's trans -- but they also keep shipping him with his longtime friend and bandmate, Rowan. But Jimmy and Rowan are just friends -- and Rowan has a secret girlfriend the fans can never know about. Dreams don't always turn out the way you think and when Jimmy and Angel are unexpectedly thrust together, they find out how strange and surprising facing up to reality can be.

A funny, wise, and heartbreakingly true coming of age novel. I Was Born for This is a stunning reflection of modern teenage life, and the power of believing in something -- especially yourself.

Start reading I Was Born of This now!

Solitaire by Alice Oseman

The amazing novel that introduced Nick and Charlie from Heartstopper -- and the unforgettable Tori Spring.

Tori Spring isn't sure how to be happy again. Then she meets Michael Holden, and they try to unmask the mysterious Solitaire (and survive high school) in Alice Oseman's stunning, unflinching honest debut novel, which first introduced her fan-favorite Heartstopper characters Nick and Charlie.

Start reading Solitaire now!

This Winter by Alice Oseman

A very special Heartstopper story set over a challenging holiday season . . .

Reuniting Tori Spring, her little brother Charlie, and Charlie's boyfriend Nick, this novella sees the Spring siblings brave a particularly difficult festive season.

Start reading This Winter now!

Rainbow! Volume 1 by Gloom & Sunny

From Tapas Media, the same webtoon platform that brought you Magical Boy, comes Rainbow!, a new LGBTQ+ YA graphic novel series!

Teenager Boo Meadows has pink hair and a very vivid imagination -- she has trouble separating from the real world. In her daydreams, she dances beautifully at balls or fights monsters as a magical girl. In reality, she has a complicated home life, work stress, school stress, and a wicked crush on the girl of her dreams. When a new student, Mimi, arrives at school, Boo starts exploring a side of herself that she never considered before. As she grows closer with Mimi, it may finally be time for Boo to face reality . . . Who is the real Mimi? The one in her dreams? Or the one in real life?

Rainbow! is perfect for fans of Heartstopper and Magical Boy, full of heart, adorable illustrations, and a storyline that any teenager can relate to!

Start reading Rainbow! Volume 1 now!

Cut by Patricia McCormick

An astonishing novel about pain, release, and recovery from two-time National Book Award finalist, Patricia McCormick.

A tingle arced across my scalp. The floor tipped up at me and my body spiraled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next.

Callie cuts herself. Never too deep, never enough to die. But enough to feel the pain. Enough to feel the scream inside.

Now she's at Sea Pines, a "residential treatment facility" filled with girls struggling with problems of their own. Callie doesn't want to have anything to do with them. She doesn't want to have anything to do with anyone. She won't even speak.

But Callie can only stay silent for so long . . .

Start reading Cut now!

#ireadya #ya books #I Am Not Alone #Francisco X Stork #Cut #Patricia McCormick #I Was Born for This #Solitaire #This Winter #Alice Oseman #Rainbow! Volume 1 #Gloom & Sunny #Books That Make You Feel Less Alone #mental health #mental health awareness

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ya-world-challenge · 1 year ago

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Hello!

I was wondering if you had any good recommendations for books containing disability/disabled characters? Fiction or non fiction. I'm trying to put together a little disability literature resource, and I've occasionally seen you share some books on it. I thought your blog would be an excellent place to come to for some more global ones!

Thank you, and I hope your reading is going well!

Oh wow, I haven't been making many lists lately so I'm not searching out books as much as I used to. But here are some more global/non-US ones that I know of/have gathered from various lists ( I haven't read all of these but most are on my TBR if I haven't.) I'd love to see your resource when you're finished!

A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman (India) A girl must relearn to dance with her new prosthetic.

One for All by Lillie Lainoff (France) In 17th-century France a girl with POTS/chronic dizziness wants to become a Musketeer.

The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf (Malaysia) A girl with OCD must survive riots in 1960s Malaysia to find her mother.

Black Bird, Blue Road by Sofiya Pasternack (medieval Khazaria) A Jewish girl defies angels to find her twin a cure for his leprosy.

The Theft of Sunlight by Intisar Khanani (fantasy N. Africa/Arabia-ish series) A girl with clubfoot teams up with a thief to tackle child trafficking.

The Library of the Dead by TL Huchu (Scotland, diverse heritages, series) Magical mysteries with a wisecracking wheelchair-user secondary character.

I Am Not Alone by Francisco X. Stork (Mexican-American) Contemporary novel about an undocumented boy developing schizophrenia.

Scar of the Bamboo Leaf by Sieni A.M (Samoa) A girl with a limp finds a relationship with a delinquent newcomer boy.

Noor by Nnedi Okorafor (Nigeria) A woman with cybernetic enhancements due to disability finds herself on the run.

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (Nigeria) A girl with albinism discovers that she has magical powers.

On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis (Netherlands) An autistic girl worries about being chosen for a survival group before an apocalypse.

Love from A to Z by S.K. Ali (Qatar) Romance where the love interest has multiple sclerosis

Torch by Lyn Miller-Lachmann (Czechoslovakia) 3 teens try to escape communism, including an autistic boy whose father threatens institutionalization.

Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray (pan-African fantasy series) One of the main characters has OCD.

Dear Fang, With Love by Rufi Thorpe (Lithuania) A bipolar teen and her estranged father search for their heritage in Lithuania.

Long Macchiatos and Monsters by Alison Evans (Australia) Short romance with 2 disabled trans people.

Russian Doll by Cristelle Comby (Swiss author, set in London) Series of mysteries with a duo of private detectives, 1 of whom is blind.

Crazy by Benjamin Lebert (Germany) Autobiographical coming-of-age, the MC has partial paralysis

#disability #asks

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maguro13-2 · 7 days ago

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The Dark Picture REPAINT ~ Origins of the Ink Demon : Operation Drawcia Final Mission (1/12)

*Before the final battle*

[cues Save Hut/Rest Area]

Inky Albarn : Have I been the original this whole time? I feel like that this is the near of my mission. My human copy was created on the moon, while I'm still standing here in nights of my lively hood.

Inky Albarn : After all, I know what happened to the original Soul Evans.

Inky Albarn : But it seems that I'm still missing something.

Inky Albarn : Maka Albarn having a sister named Moirai...But being born on the Planet's Moon? That's a weird thing. But I'm finally beginning to remember on where did I eventually come from? San Francisco...Ah yes, I remembered around and over 82 years ago, I was carried by a stork in the for deliveries. That Stork is responsible for me being born in that city, the city that my human copy grew up after the explosion around 10 years ago.

Inky Albarn : But if I came back about 82 years ago, when did I even think about giving thoughts to...to wear I gave fear to anyone in their life. Just remember...

[Cues Jupiter (Homestar Portable Ver.) by Gustav Holst]

"Back in the year 1991, Lord Phanto III, an intergalactic being on the Earth's Moon, took human blood to create a human copy from me and a woman that is Spirit Albarn's first spouse, in order to create the perfect daughter of him, Phanto uses a special type blood that would allow her to use the magic to manipulate blood and given herself to the traditional arts of Blood Magic."

"Blood Magic has been the beginning of everything from fantasy worlds, to urban living. Some say that the powers of Blood Manipulation Magic would consider to the be sacred art that are good with skills and creativity for the purpose of being a warrior."

"That made me realize that this black blood was actually Ink all along. The powers of Ink was the beginning of everything."

"Ink was thought to be Black Blood, but it was all a lie from Oswald to begin with."

Inky Albarn : So there are some clues that my human blood taken by the Lord Phatno fella who wanted to create a human daughter that looks exactly like me, an original who disappeared from the face of the Real World for a long time. And now I understand how I truly felt, It's like I never came back for a long time. And this Soul Eater guy was it? I remember now! Soul!

*flashback to the past*

*Sonic Adventure SFX : Flames Roaring*

[Echo Night - Beyond OST : Track 3]

Inky Albarn/1930s Maka : Soul!

1930s Soul Evans : Maka. (gets comfort by Maka)

Inky Albarn/1930s Maka : Please, Soul. Don't leave me!

1930s Soul Evans : I won't, Maka. I won't forget.

Inky Albarn/1930s Maka : Soul...!

1930s Soul : Even without you, there's only one thing to remind you.

Inky Albarn/1930s Maka : What's that?

1930s Soul : I'm still cooler.

Inky Albarn/1930s Maka : You're still funny, you know.

*DBZ SFX : BOOMING+Explosion*

*changes back to the present*

Inky Albarn : I will never forget that moment that the original Soul Evans died.

Inky Albarn : In fact that the Maka Albarn they knew is me, the original one that disappeared for 70 years.

Inky Albarn : Did I choose my destiny to become queen or even become a hero. Is this what Shinra Kusakabe's influence was about?

Inky Albarn : If I only died in the next world, will my human copy take my place as the hero she knew about it? That's the only reason that she wanted to follow the hero's footsteps.

Inky Albarn/Maka Albarn : And to make sure that she wants to know everything about Shinra and the Ohkuboverse. It's all our fault, we've been under the influence of the boy who manipulated us as heroes.

[Echo Night - Beyond OST : Track 12]

Inky Albarn/Maka Albarn : Why show the world what courage is about? How can I say things that I can show the whole universe what courage is. They don't even know what courage is! Soul...I just realized about our courage. Shinra's influence made us do it.

Inky Albarn/Maka Albarn : The Ohkuboverse is gone and it's all our fault the Time Eater and the girl expunged all of us. I just wanted to forsaken Shinra to show our courage to everyone, this planet...and this entire galaxy.

Inky Albarn/Maka Albarn : I felt like that this Soul Resonance is actually beating my heart, it's Shinra's heart that is the cause of all of this. Soul...Crona...Your last wishes is that I wanted nothing but eternal friendship. I'm sorry...everyone, I'm sorry that I let everyone astray.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit : You are right. But you didn't mean everything to everyone. Not to you, not to those who are really close to you.

[Echo Night - Beyond OST : Track 13]

Inky Albarn/Maka Albarn : Nani?

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit : I don't blame someone who is at fault, it could be either yours or Shinra's. Both Maka and Shinra are a part of the Ohkuboverse, a boundary between both stories and tales of two heroes that share a common universe. The Ohkuboverse has disappeared a lot. But it was stuck in an endless cycle from the world of Firefighters and Religion to the world of eternal halloween. But is Soul World is a world of eternal halloween, then it's firefighters to Halloween.

Inky Albarn : Are you saying that all of that is true. Firefighters to Halloween? Does that really ring a bell?

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit : Of course. When it comes to Monsters, Ghouls, Ghosts, Goblins, and Witches, everything in Soul World is made up from the traditions of Halloween. That's why Shinra created Soul Eater himself in order to celebrate Halloween, not just halloween, but his birthday as well.

Inky Albarn : And you are...?

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit : I'm Oswald...Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

Inky Albarn/Maka Albarn : Are you...really the one true Oswald.

Oswald : Well don't just stand here in the middle of cold, come to Namine's, she's the witch nobody that is waiting for you.

Inky Albarn : Namine...Nobody?

(changes to Namine)

Namine : So...You are the original Maka Albarn.

Inky Albarn : Yes, I am the original Maka Albarn...queen of the Ink Demons.

Namine : Namine...Namine the Nobody of Kairi.

Inky Albarn : So it seems that you are not a copy, but a creation of Kairi, did Drawcia made you this way?

Namine : Not sure what I am...But I was made from Drawcia's research and of course from Kairi's heart.

Inky Albarn : So...These are pictures, pretty pictures. All made by you. Showing the memories of everyone from the multiverse.

Namine : Yes...Memories of Sora, and those who are closer to him and to everyone.

Inky Albarn : So what about the pictures of the ones in the multiverse?

Namine : Hmmm...Come I'll show you.

(scene changes to the Dark Picture Room)

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit : What is this place? Is this supposed to be the Dark Picture?

Namine : Close your eyes and wait for a surprise.

Inky Albarn : Okay there closed.

Oswald : We're closing them.

Namine : Good. Hold on a moment.

Namine : Now open them.

Inky Albarn : Come on, Namine. You know things like that won't work in this very dark...room?

[Echo Night - Beyond OST : Track 17]

(they open their eyes and sees the multiverse made from the magic of her drawings)

Inky Albarn : Huh? Did you make the Multiverse like this? It's like I'm being in an imaginative world like Blue's Clues.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit : My Goodness. This is the Multiverse, the place where all worlds exist in one universe. It's like she's telling us the story on how these universes begin and every world meets their ends. I like this kind of creative museum-like world. Showing all kinds of different worlds, different stories, and different heroes.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit : This is a dream come true!

Namine : Here we are. This is the story of Mashimaverse and the Ohkuboverse. These two places were the two existing universes that had a deep connection with both magic, sorcery, and heroism. The Mashimaverse had existed for a long period of time to enter the Real World universe, however, the Ohkuboverse, a universe that is influenced by both good and evil that were unbalanced.

Inky Albarn : The Mashimaverse balanced both good and evil, while the Ohkuboverse is unbalanced of the forces between good and evil. Like they're tipping the scales of Libra. Only Justice can balance the scales by herself. The forces between good and evil in the Mashimaverse is balanced, alright...

Inky Albarn : But the Ohkuboverse...? Yeah, right. Totally off balance.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit : I am shocked that this is why their magic have wreaked havoc in Soul World, it was those guys, their magic is responsible for the conflict between both humans and witches. That was their fault, did an inhabitant of the Ohkuboverse given all of that magic? Who was that inhabitant that became the first magician in the Ohkuboverse.

Namine : This magician's name...was Inca Kasugatani.

(shows a drawing of Inca Kasugatani as a witch)

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit : Unbelievable! She looks just like that teenager from Japan, Kimiko was it?

Namine : Yes, as in Kimiko the witch, who goes under the name as Kimial Diehl. She's the name of a future relative to Inca that had kept secret in years before her birth in Massachusetts.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit : Okay...So what if we did know bout the secrets of the Ohkuboverse? Can it all be true? So Inca Kasugatani was the beginning of everything?

Namine : No...not just her, but this entity wit three eyes is. This is the Bai Ze's predacessor, Demon Vibe.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit : The entity who is the false god called the Evangelist.

Namine : That three-eyed entity named Demon Vibe was the beginning of everything for the Ohkuboverse, it had been using the hearts of brining nothing but destruction, and that's how the heroes face it in the end of their tales.

Namine : The only reason villains of the Ohkuboverse craves death, destruction, and abusive power, because Demon Vibe wanted to conquer the Galaxy in order bring darkness into the universe. But he was stopped by the first hero, Shinra Kusakabe, and banished him into dimension where his influence remains as part of his thirs for galactic power in the cosmos.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit : And let me guess, Shinra's man-made is controlling the Ohkuboverse?

Namine : Only nothing more than Darkside Death, a heartless who has been manipulating Ohkuboverse, only to protect the legacy that Shinra and his people started.

[cues Brief Relief by Jun Senoue]

Inky Albarn : Well, I'll be damnned. Truth from FMA was right, all of that halloween stuff from Soul World is nothing but a bunch of baloney! The Souls, the weapons, the witches, the madness...it was all Shinra Kusakabe acting alone as the hero who has ever lived in the Ohkuboverse for all of eternity! This was his fault, he and his stupid people are responsible for this whole Soul Eater crap! Why Soul Eater, why Shinra? Why hid the truth and let everything astray?

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit : Lady Albarn.

Inky Albarn (sighs with resignation) Sorry about that. It's just that my human copy from the moon is the only one who can know about the truth. Why did the Time Eater and the girl destroyed that universe that Shinra and others lived in?

Namine : After they were expunged, they have been isekai'd into both the Real World and the many worlds, like the SEGA Worlds.

Namine : Shinra was Isekai'd into both Real World and a SEGA World to be reincarnated as his resurrection, and that's how he truly re-exist into the Real World itself.

Inky Albarn : Now I get it, I finally get it of who I really am. I am the original Maka Albarn, it's me, the real and original Maka Albarn. The Maka Albarn that existed is my human copy created by Lord Phanto III. Responsible for the explosion in 1994, that explosion was an intense shock and roaring sound, which was a massive shock that eight percent of the population was wiped out in Japan. That's all I remember from that incident before I was awaken from my slumber.

Namine : I see, it was long til that sudden realization that you are the real and "Original" Maka Albarn. That is who you really are.

*telephone ringing*

Namine : Phone call? What could that be now?

(answers phone)

Namine : Hello, this is Namine. How's everything doing?

Diz/Ansem via Phone : Namine, is that you?

Namine : Diz, is that you? No...The real Ansem was it?

Diz/Ansem via Phone : The hearts of the Gorgon witch are sisters are fake, they had been copies made by the renegades their selves.

[PigeonBlood OST : Black Corridor]

Namine : What? They're renegades, the Gorgon Witch Sisters are renegades? If those two witches are the renegades, how are the shaula and Arachne witches heartless copies. Unless, someone using these heartless copies as puppets to destroy the whole world, not destroy it, but cover it darkness.

Diz/Ansem via Phone : I am filled with nothing but surprises, the snake witch Medusa Gorgon is also a copy of the original that died in the hands of the hero of witchkind herself.

(changes to Diz/Ansem on the Phone)

Namine via Phone : The original Snake Witch is dead, and other two snake witches are copies, one is the human...

Diz/Ansem : And the other is heartless, a slithering creature affiliated by the powers of darkness and craves nothing but death and destruction. Shinra Kusakabe has manipulating everyone for fools. His influence was about being the greatest hero that wanted to create a legacy of his own that created a new world in his own universe, before he was scolded by the Time Eater.

[changes to PigeonBlood OST : Drowning Valley]

Namine via Phone : I see...So that's why the World of Soul Eater created, all for the sake of Shinra Kusakabe himself.

Diz/Ansem : Indeed. Youngsters like him weren't foolish enough to hide the truth from anyone in order to make up a few secrets. In any case, the Black Rabbit is running and plans to bring chaos into the real world, you have to warn everyone that the planet or the galaxy will might cover in darkness.

Namine via Phone : Ansem...

(changes back to Namine on the phone)

Namine : That legacy he has left from the Ohkuboverse, what did you discovered something...

*flashback to Diz/Ansem's past*

Ansem the Wise : So this is the legacy of what's left from the boy. The Purity Heart, the beginning of everything, this heartless has been making humans to cherish the legacy from the boy who defeated an ancient evil that lurks in the cosmos of his universe, before he was expunged by a fearsome creature.

(a mural depicting the Time Eater destroying the Ohkuboverse)

Ansem the Wise : How can one entity destroy an entire universe with great power, such as the human relative who expunges it's inhabitants.

Ansem's Colleague/Xemnas : But, Ansem. Isn't that the universe in which the entity was erasing it before it could be exposed by Truth?

Ansem the Wise : We're working it as usual, this is what causes all of it's inhabitants to grow stubborn and arrogant with the boy's influence, by giving all eight hearts to one heartless he created, a heartless that will cherish the boy's legacy as the first hero of the Ohkuboverse, but now we've begun to analyze what the legacy really was.

Ansem the Wise : It is discovered that everyone can be a hero or a villain, it was all thanks to him that created the world of a new story, and every hero reaches the end of their tale, these goals were nothing but ambitions of protecting the Devil's legacy.

Ansem's Colleague/Xemnas : Perhaps that feeling of another hero is someone who is obsessed with a human that wanted nothing but friendship, was this all a misunderstanding because of one's sake for the boy who created that world?

Ansem the Wise : Of course. And we all know that the protector of the boy's legacy, had something in common of being queen to the demons, or being the God of Destruction. The chosen one and protector of the boy's legacy as the one they call "Maka Albarn".

Ansem's Colleague : Maka Albarn, but those two share a name, one is the symbol of light, while the other is the symbol of darkness.

Ansem the Wise : A wise fact, however, The Angel of Death or God Of Destruction will not complete her duty until she fulfills it in the end.

*changes back to the present*

Namine : I see that you've stumbled apon the truth that the Ohkuboverse had to be destroyed, destroyed as it was targeted by the Time Traveling entity that travels through and time space, while it's human relative expunges everyone that lives in that universe.

Inky Albarn : I understand that I was the Ohkuboverse's inhabitant who got killed by that girl, and isekai'd me as queen of the demons in the 1930s. My name was Maka Albarn, I shared that name with a human copy that was created by an intergalactic being on the moon. But Soul Eater, an eternal world of Halloween?

(cues Throw it All Away by Fumie Kumatani & Everett Bradley)

Inky Albarn : Heh! That world of Soul Eater is nothing but a crazy-ass joke. All they think that Soul Eater is halloween and anyone to think that the story of Soul Eater was halloween, then all the trick-r-treating in the world cannot be riddled without some candies to feed on. Every Human, Demon, and witch are all the traditions of Halloween and therefore, demons has been associated with the foundations of the very first halloween. Goblins, ghouls, ghosts, and monsters are all the traditions of every halloween night there is!

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit : Your words has touched us all, Halloween was everything for Soul Eater, and it's not for Soul Eater, it's for everyone! Shinra Kusakabe himself was the one who wanted to create a world for halloween. Grim Reaper, witches, demons, monsters, ghosts, goblins and ghouls, it was his idea from the start! His ideal of creating Soul Eater's world and story was his idea from his birthday! That devilish bastard, he's nothing but trouble and there is no way he'll never talk about souls anymore!

Inky Albarn : Yeah, but if you want something to take back is ours, then so be it. It's time that reclaim my throne and take the albarn name to not be in vein! But my promise to a demon is far more concern than being human. Come on, Oswald. What do you say? Shall we work together as a team? I'm still the "original" and then...

Oswald the lucky Rabbit : And then what...?

Inky Albarn : ....Hah

*DBZ SFX : Surprise*

Inky Albarn : I'll show everyone who the real Maka Albarn is...! And I'll be knocking on the Demon King's doors. Trust me, you've got a lot of ways to settle our future for this, but you owe me one.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit : No duh!

(the two runs off)

"THE QUEEN IS NOW ON A ROYAL SCALE!"

"IT'S THE COMBINATION OF QUEEN AND RABBIT"

"THE TWO ENEMIES ARE NOW WORKING TOGETHER"

"THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET..."

"EPIC!"

Inky Albarn : Ikoze! IT'S SHOWTIME!

~ Mission 44 : Enemies to Frenemies ~

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