#Padma Venkatraman

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Born Behind Bars by Padma Venkatraman was an awesome read! It’s middle grade, but tackled really tough topics like justice, incarceration, homelessness, and racism with a whole lot of care and respect. I adored that the main character, a 9 year old boy named Kabir, was written as having complex thoughts and feelings. Children are often treated as if they don’t have complex thoughts and feelings. Excellent book. Read it in two sittings!

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Smooth sailing over the holidays and Safe Harbor in 2025!

It’s almost time to launch SAFE HARBOR – my sixth novel and my second novel-in-verse! I can’t believe how fast 2024 has flown! If you haven’t ordered your copy yet, here is the link: https://buff.ly/3XLA0eK And… here below is the photo of the seal who inspired the novel, “lying like a sack of rice” on the sands of the beach near my home, in my Ocean State. This seal was fine – but of course, as…

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– Padma Venkatraman, A Time to Dance

[readingbooksinisrael]

Random Book Recommendation # 1: Climbing the Stairs/Padma Venkatraman

Blurb: During World War II and the last days of British occupation in India, fifteen-year-old Vidya dreams of attending college. But when her forward-thinking father is beaten senseless by the British police, she is forced to live with her grandfather's large traditional family, where the women live apart from the men and are meant to be married off as soon as possible. Vidya's only refuge becomes her grandfather's upstairs library, which is forbidden to women. There she meets Raman, a young man also living in the house who relishes her intellectual curiosity. But when Vidya's brother decides to fight with the hated British against the Nazis, and when Raman proposes marriage too soon, Vidya must question all she has believed in.

For people who like: historical fiction with a well-researched setting, strong woman characters, coming-of-age in complicated times

[emjee]

I figured since I’ve been complaining I should mention the contemporary books I have actually read and enjoyed so shoutout to Heretics Anonymous by Katie Henry for being the only YA novel that came close to my actual experience of Catholic school. The Possibilities of Sainthood by Donna Freitas isn’t as much of a heavy hitter but I enjoyed it when I was in high school. From All False Doctrine by Alice Degan and Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira felt like they were written for me personally.

I know I’m an information professional but I swear I just typed the phrase “why is Christian fiction so bad” into duck duck go

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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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YA Pacific WW2 Books

Today marks the 78th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, 3 days after the bombing of Hiroshima.

I've had a list of WW2 books in a file for a while. I noticed the Pacific side of the war is much less represented in fiction, but there are still many promising-looking books out there. These range from stories in Japan-occupied territories, to Jews in Shanghai, bombs in Australia, and stories of the atomic bombs in Japan and internment of Japanese-Americans.

Let me know if you've read any of these!

When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park (Korea) The Hundred Choices Department Store by Ginger Park (Korea) The Songbird and the Rambutan Tree by Lucille Abendanon (Indonesia) [releases in 2024] Anya's War by Andrea Alban Gosline (China) Little Paradise by Gabrielle Wang (Australia - China) The Forgotten Pearl by Belinda Murrell (Australia) The Sky We Shared by Shirley Reva Vernick (Japan - United States) Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa (Japan) [manga] The Girl with the White Flag Tomiko Higa, Dorothy Britton (Japan) The Last Cherry Blossom by Kathleen Burkinshaw (Japan) Hunt for the Bamboo Rat by Graham Salisbury (United States - Philippines) [more in the series] Beneath the Wide Silk Sky by Emily Inouye Huey (Japanese-American) They Called Us Enemy by George Takei (Japanese-American) [graphic novel] Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata (Japanese-American) We Are Not Free - Traci Chee (Japanese-American) Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman (India)

🕊️🕊️ Prayers for peace. 🕊️🕊️

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September 2023 Reads

Reign - Katharine McGee

Kissing Kosher - Jean Meltzer

Skip to the End - Molly James

Every Duke Has His Day - Suzanne Enoch

The Plus One - Mazey Eddings

Meet Me at the Lake - Carley Fortune

The Love Plot - Samantha Young

Maybe Meant to Be - K.L. Walther

Cleat Cute - Meryl Wilsner

Sammy Espinoza's Last Review - Tehlor Kay Mejia

The Borrow a Boyfriend Club - Page Powars

Lost in the Moment and Found - Seanan McGuire

Thornhedge - T. Kingfisher

Men at Arms - Terry Pratchett

Just One Damned Thing After Another - Jodi Taylor

Climbing the Stairs - Padma Venkatraman

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks - E. Lockhart

Fangirl, Vol 3 - Rainbow Rowell, Gabi Nam

The Witch's Hand - Nathan Page

King-Cat Comics and Stories #73 - John Porcellino

King-Cat Comics and Stories #76 - John Porcellino

King-Cat Comics and Stories #78 - John Porcellino

King-Cat Comics and Stories #79 - John Porcellino

When Sharks Attack With Kindness - Andres J. Colmenares

We Are Starlings - Robert Furrow

Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver - Mary Oliver

The Book of (More) Delights - Ross Gay

Bones of Belonging - Annahid Dashtgard

White Women - Regina Jackson, Saira Rao

The Country of the Blind - Andrew Leland

When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal - Brianna Wiest

While You Were Out - Meg Kissinger

Trauma is Really Strange - Steve Haines

Young Forever - Mark Hyman

The Pegan Diet - Mark Hyman

Bold = Highly Recommend Italics = Worth It Crossed out = Nope

Thoughts: 

I hope Ross Gay continues to write about the delights he finds in the world for years to come.

Goodreads Goal: 324/400 

2017 Reads | 2018 Reads | 2019 Reads | 2020 Reads | 2021 Reads| 

2022 Reads | 2023 Reads

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Disability (Books)

A:

A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)

Tiny Tim (Unspecified Disability)

A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Brigid Kemmerer)

Harper (Cerebral Palsy)

A Different Kind of Beauty (Sylvia McNicoll)

Kyle (Blind, Diabetes)

A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Mackenzi Lee)

Percy (Epilepsy)

A List of Cages (Robin Roe)

Adam Blake (ADHD)

Julian (Dyslexia)

All Our Broken Pieces (L.D. Crichton)

Kyler (Facial Difference - Scarring)

All The Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)

Marie-Laure (Blind)

All the Right Reasons (Bethany Mangle)

Connor (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome)

American Girl (Series - Various Authors)

Blaire (Food Allergy)

Gabriela (Stutter)

Josie Myers (Paralyzed, Wheelchair User)

Joss Kendrick (Deaf)

Joy Jenner (Deaf)

Maryellen Larkin (Limited Mobility)

Sam Walker (Amputee)

A Step Toward Falling (Cammie McGovern)

Anthony (Down Syndrome)

Belinda Montgomery (Low Vision, Unspecified Developmental Disability)

Douglas (Unspecified Developmental Disability)

Eugene (Unspecified Disability, Wheelchair User)

Francine (Down Syndrome)

Harrison (Autistic, Blind)

Sheila (Autistic)

A Time to Dance (Padma Venkatraman)

Veda (Amputee)

An Accidental Woman (Barbara Delinsky)

Poppy Blake (Paralyzed, Wheelchair User)

Animorphs (K.A. Applegate)

Collette (Paralyzed)

Craig (Unspecified Disability)

Erica (Unspecified Disability)

James (Paralyzed, Wheelchair User)

Jessie (Unspecified Disability)

Judy (Unspecified Disability)

Julio (Unspecified Disability)

Kelly (Cystic Fibrosis)

Liam (Unspecified Disability)

Ray (Unspecified Disability)

Timmy (Cerebral Palsy, Wheelchair User)

Tricia (Unspecified Disability)

B:

Blind (Rachel DeWoskin)

Emma Sasha Silver (Blind)

Blind Curve (Annie Solomon)

Danny Sinofsky (Blind)

Blindsided (Priscilla Cummings)

Arnab (Blind)

Eve (Blind)

Gabriella "Bree" (Blind, Seizure Disorder)

JJ (Blind)

Karen (Blind)

Mark (Blind, Wheelchair User)

Murph (Blind)

Natalie O'Reilly (Blind)

Paula (Blind, Cerebral Palsy, Wheelchair User)

Serena (Partially Blind)

Sheldon (Blind)

Blind Sighted (Peter Moore)

Callie (Blind)

Blind Spot (Laura Ellen)

Roswell "Roz" Hart (Blind - Macular Degeneration)

Breathe and Count Back From Ten (Natalia Sylvester)

Verónica (Hip Dysplasia)

Bruised (Tanya Boteju)

Caihong "Cai" (Deaf)

C:

Catching the Light (Susan Sinnott)

Cathy (Unspecified Learning Disability)

Cemetary Boys (Aiden Thomas)

Julian Diaz (ADHD)

Chapel of the Ravens (Paul Bishop)

Ian Chapel (Partially Blind)

Charlotte Kent - Series (Mary Kittredge)

Joey Kent (Paralyzed)

Chronicles of Isaac of Girona - Series (Caroline Roe)

Isaac (Blind)

Connection Error (Annabeth Albert)

Josiah Simmons (ADHD)

Ryan Orson (Multi-Limb Amputee)

Connor Westphal - Series (Penny Warner)

Connor Westphal (Deaf)

Crime on the Cuff (Henri Weiner)

John Brass (Amputee)

Crown of Feathers - Series (Nicki Pau Preto)

Sparrow (Blind)

D:

Dan Fortune - Series (Michael Collins)

Dan Fortune (Amputee)

Daughter of the Deep (Rick Riordan)

Ester Harding (Autistic)

Dear Mothman (Robin Gow)

Noah (Autistic)

Death From - Series (Brigitte Aubert)

Elise Andrioli (Blind, Mute, Quadriplegic)

Docken Dead (John Trench)

Martin Cotterell (Amputee)

Dr. Douglas Baynes - Series (Vicars Bell)

Douglas Baynes (Amputee)

Dr. Evan Wilding - Series (Barbara Nickless)

Evan Wilding (Dwarfism)

Duncan Maclain - Series (Baynard Kendrick)

Duncan Maclain (Blind)

E:

Every Time You Go Away (Abigail Johnson)

Rebecca (Paralyzed, Wheelchair User)

F:

Far From You (Tess Sharpe)

Sophie Winters (Limp, Scarring)

Fault Tree (Louise Ure)

Cadence Moran (Blind)

Finding Phoebe (Gavin Extence)

Phoebe (Autistic)

For a Muse of Fire (Heidi Heilig)

Jetta (Bipolar Disorder)

Frankie's World (Aoife Dooley)

Frankie (Autistic)

Sam (Wheelchair User)

Fred Carver - Series (John Lutz)

Fred Carver (Cane User, Past Injury)

Freezing (Penelope Evans)

Stewart Park (Stutter)

Future Girl (Asphyxia)

Piper McBride (Deaf)

G:

Gifted Clans (Graci Kim)

Sahm (Limb Difference)

Girl, Stolen (April Henry)

Cheyenne Wilder (Blind)

Give Me a Sign (Anna Sortino)

Isaac (Deaf)

Lilah (Hard of Hearing)

Good Kings, Bad Kings (Susan Nussbaum)

Joanna Madsen (Paralyzed, Wheelchair User)

H:

Handle With Care (Jodi Picoult)

Willow O'Keefe (Osteogenesis Imperfecta)

Harper Connelly - Series (Charlaine Harris)

Harper Connelly (Chronic Pain)

Hello, Universe (Erin Entrada Kelly)

Valencia Somerset (Deaf)

Highway Bodies (Alison Evans)

Jojo (Amputee)

House Rules (Jodi Picoult)

Jacob Hunt (Autistic)

How to Dance (Jason B. Dutton)

Nick Freeman (Cerebral Palsy, Walker User)

How to Speak Dolphin (Ginny Rorby)

Adam (Autistic)

Zoe (Blind)

I:

Inspector Anders - Series (Marshall Browne)

Anders (Amputee)

J:

J.D. Hawkins - Series (W.R. Philbrick)

J.D. Hawkins (Paralyzed, Wheelchair User)

Jerk, California (Jonathan Friesen)

Sam Carrier (Tourette's Syndrome)

Jimmy Jenner - Series (John Milne)

Jimmy Jenner (Amputee, Hard of Hearing)

Joe Binney - Series (Jack Livingston)

Joe Binney (Hard of Hearing)

John Rodrigue - Series (Ken Grissom)

John Rodrigue (Partially Blind)

K:

Keep This to Yourself (Tom Ryan)

Junior Merlin (Partially Blind - One Eye)

L:

Learning Curves (Ceillie Simkiss)

Cora McLaughlin (ADHD)

Light a Single Candle (Beverly Butler)

Cathy Wheeler (Blind)

Lincoln Rhyme - Series (Jeffrey Deaver)

Lincoln Rhyme (Quadriplegic)

Love and First Sight (Josh Sundquist)

Cecily Hoder (Facial Difference)

William "Will" Porter (Blind)

Love Letters for Joy (Melissa See)

Joy (Cerebral Palsy)

M:

Maddy and Alex Phillips - Series (R.D. Zimmerman)

Maddy Phillips (Blind, Paralyzed)

Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl (Brianna R. Shrum, Sara Waxelbaum)

Margo Zimmerman (Autistic)

Matt Sinclair - Series (Tony Fennelly)

Matt Sinclair (Epilepsy)

Max Carrados - Series (Ernest Bramah)

Max Carrados (Blind)

Maximum Ride (James Patterson)

Iggy (Blind)

Mongo - Series (George Chesbro)

Maya Plays the Part (Calyssa Erb)

Maya Robertson (Autistic)

Robert "Mongo" Fredrickson (Dwarfism)

Motherless Brooklyn (Jonathan Lethem)

Lionel Essrog (Tourette's Syndrome)

Murder, I Presume (Gilliam Linscott)

Peter Pentland (Amputee)

Murder On Wheels (Mary Scott)

Bryan Greyshott (Paralyzed, Wheelchair User)

N:

Naomi Blake - Series (Jane A. Adams)

Naomi Blake (Blind)

Nestlings (Nat Cassidy)

Ana Greene (Paralyzed, Wheelchair User)

Nora Callum - Series (Thomas McCall)

Nora Callum (Amputee)

Not If I See You First (Eric Lindstrom)

Parker Grant (Blind)

O:

Odelia Gray - Series (Sue Anne Jaffarian)

Greg Stevens (Unspecified Disability, Wheelchair User)

One For All (Lillie Lainoff)

Tania de Batz (Unspecified Chronic Illness)

On the Edge of Gone (Corinne Duyvis)

Denise (Autistic)

Out of My Mind (Sharon M. Draper)

Ashley (Unspecified Physical Disability)

Carl (Unspecified Developmental Disability)

Freddy (Unspecified Disability - Wheelchair User)

Gloria (Autistic)

Jill (Unspecified Mobility Disability - Walker User)

Maria (Down Syndrome)

Melody (Cerebral Palsy - Wheelchair User, Synesthesia)

Willy Williams (Unspecified Motor Disability)

Owen Archer - Series (Candace Robb)

Owen Archer (Partially Blind)

P:

Percy Jackson - Universe (Rick Riordan)

Amphithemis (Short Term Memory Loss)

Ben (Unspecified Mobility Disability - Wheelchair User)

Ethan Nakamura (Partially Blind)

Halcyon "Hal" Green (Mute)

Hearthstone (Deaf)

Hephaestus (Facial Differences, Limb Differences)

Leo Valdez (ADHD, Motion Sickness)

Phineas (Blind)

Thalia Grace (ADHD, Dyslexia)

Peter and Georgia Marsh - Series (Amy Meyers)

Peter Marsh (Unspecified Disability - Wheelchair User)

Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes (Jonathan Auxier)

Peter Nimble (Blind)

Pinned (Sharon G. Flake)

Adonis (Limb Difference, Wheelchair User)

Autumn (Unspecified Learning Disability)

Planet Earth is Blue (Nicole Panteleakos)

Nova Vezina (Autistic)

Punk 57 (Penelope Douglas)

Ryen Trevarrow (Allergies, Asthma)

Q:

R:

Rainbow Magic (Daisy Meadows)

Camilla (Deaf)

Elsie (Unspecified Mobility Disability - Wheelchair User)

Harper (Down Syndrome)

Riley (Limb Difference)

Remember Dippy (Shirley Reva Vernick)

Remember "Mem" Dippy (Autistic)

Retina Boy (Ben Shaberman)

Doug Anderson (Blind)

Marcy (Unspecified Mobility Disability - Wheelchair User)

S:

Sadie (Courtney Summers)

Sadie Hunter (Stutter)

Sal and Gabi Break the Universe (Carlos Hernandez)

Floramaria Vidón (Diabetes)

Salvador "Sal" Vidón (Type 1 Diabetes)

Scholomance (Series - Naomi Novik)

Dinesh (Facial Scarring)

Hideo (Unspecified Tic Disorder)

Jowani (Stammer)

She is Not Invisible (Marcus Sedgwick)

Laureth Peak (Blind)

Shooter (Caroline Pignat)

Noah Waters (Autistic)

Silence Between Us (Alison Gervais)

Maya (Deaf)

Silent Joe (T. Jefferson Parker)

Joe Trona (Facial Difference)

Six of Crows (Leigh Bardugo)

Kaz Brekker (Chronic Pain - Cane User)

Wylan Van Eck (Dyslexia)

Sixteen Souls (Rosie Talbot)

Charlie Frith (Amputee)

Skull Session (Daniel Hecht)

Paul Skoglund (Tourette's Syndrome)

Something More (Jackie Khalilieh)

Jessie (Autistic)

Song for a Whale (Lynne Kelly)

Grandfather (Deaf)

Grandmother (Deaf)

Iris Bailey (Deaf)

Wendell (Deaf)

Stick Foster - Series (Kevin Robinson)

Stick Foster (Paralyzed - Wheelchair User)

Strange Fire (Melvin Jules Bukiet)

Nathan Kazakov (Blind)

T:

Tall Story (Candy Gourlay)

Bernardo (Gigantism)

Tender is the Flesh (Augustina Bazterrica)

Dr. Valka (Unspecified Mobility Disability - Cane User)

The Body in the Woods (April Henry)

Nick Walker (ADHD)

Ruby McClure (Autistic)

The Boy Who Steals Houses (C.G. Drew)

Avery (Autistic)

Sam (Anxiety)

The Good Hawk (Joseph Elliot)

Agatha (Down Syndrome)

The Heart of Applebutter Hill (Donna Hill)

Abigail Jones (Blind)

The Hunger Games - Series (Suzanne Collins)

Chaff (Amputee)

Hy (Asthma)

Martin (Unspecified Developmental Disability)

Peeta Mellark (Amputee)

Ripper (Amputee)

Woof (Hard of Hearing)

The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Lev Myshkin (Epilepsy)

The Locked Tomb (Tamsyn Muir)

Cytherea the First (Cancer)

The Luis Ortega Survival Club (Sonora Reyes)

Ariana Ruiz (Autistic, Situational Mutism)

The One Thing (Marci Lyn Curtis)

Ben Milton (Spina Bifida)

Maggie Sanders (Blind)

The Second Opinion (Michael Palmer)

Thea Sperelakis (Asperger's Syndrome)

The Storm Runner (J.C. Cervantes)

Renata "Ren" Santiago (Allergies, Epilepsy)

Rosie (Amputee)

Zane Obispo (Leg Length Discrepancy - Cane User)

The Tragedy Paper (Elizabeth LaBan)

Tim Macbeth (Albino, Blind)

The Wheel of Time (Robert Jordan)

Mat Cauthon (Blind)

The Window (Jeanette Ingold)

Mandy (Blind)

Things Not Seen (Andrew Clements)

Alicia Van Dorn (Blind)

Things the Eye Can't See (Penny Joelson)

Libby (Low Vision)

Thousand Worlds - Series (Yoon Ha Lee)

Myung Juhwang (Amputee)

Quartermaster Yang (Deaf)

Toby Peters - Series (Stuart M. Kaminsky)

Gunther Wherthman (Dwarfism)

Tristian Strong - Series (Kwame Mbalia)

Jessica "Jess" (Unspecified Disability, Wheelchair User)

Troubled Waters (Carolyn Wheat)

Ron Jameson (Quadraplegic)

U:

Unseelie (Ivelisse Housman)

Iselia "Seelie" Graygrove (Autistic)

V:

W:

Warriors (Erin Hunter)

Berrynose (Amputee)

Briarlight (Limited Mobility)

Brightheart (Partially Blind)

Cinderpelt (Limited Mobility)

Deadpaw (Limb Difference)

Fallowfern (Deaf)

Finleap (Amputee)

Halftail (Amputee)

Jayfeather (Blind)

Leopardstar (Diabetes)

Lilywhisker (Paralyzed)

Longtail (Blind)

Moth Flight (ADD)

Oddfoot (Limb Difference)

One-Eye (Partially Blind)

Petalfall (Epilepsy)

Shadowsight (Epilepsy)

Snowkit (Deaf)

Whitewater (Partially Blind)

Where You See Yourself (Claire Forrest)

Effie Galanos (Cerebral Palsy, Wheelchair User)

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the East (Gregory Maguire)

Nessarose Thropp (Unspecified Disability, Wheelchair User)

Wild and Crooked (Leah Thomas)

Gus Peake (Aphasia, Astereognosis, Asthma, Cerebral Palsy)

Wings of Fire (Tui T. Sutherland)

Addax (Limp)

Battlewinner (Fantasy Disability)

Chameleon (Facial Difference, Limited Abilities)

Clay (Limp)

Dune (Amputee)

Jerboa ||| (Amputee)

Mayfly (Amputee)

Onyx (Limited Mobility)

Osprey (Blind, Paralyzed)

Peregrine (Partially Deaf)

Sapphire (Amputee)

Scarlet (Facial Difference)

Sequoia (Amputee)

Snowflake (Limited Mobility)

Starflight (Blind)

Stonemover (Limited Mobility*)

Tamarin (Blind)

Tau (Limb Difference, Limited Mobility)

Vengeance (Facial Difference)

Wasp (Facial Difference)

Wonder (R.J. Palacio)

Auggie Pullman (Facial Difference)

X:

Y:

You're Welcome, Universe (Whitney Gardner)

Julia (Deaf)

Z:

Zen Moses (Elizabeth Cosin)

Zenara Moses (Cancer)

#:

100 Days (Nicole McInnes)

Agnes (Progeria)

100 Sideways Miles (Andrew Smith)

Finn Easton (Epilepsy)

13 Gifts (Wendy Mass)

Angelina D'Angelo (Facial Difference)

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i've cried once. just once.

anyways if u like hurt no comfort pls consider reading the book The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman <3

this is not assuming your reactions to all types of media are the same, it’s just I can’t split everything up so just assume its all one big category (I might do smaller polls for each, we’ll see)

pls reblog for sample size etc

follow for more occasional useless polls :)

[padmatv]

See you at NCTE 2024?

Looking forward with gratitude to connecting with #teachers #educators #librarians and the #kidlit community at #NCTE2024 in Boston. My wonderfully hectic schedule begins on Thursday 11:30 Rm 204 A with a panel on Ecoliteracy, moderated by Nora Shalaway Carpenter and featuring Margarita Engle and Jewel Parker Rhodes, along with Karina Iceberg, Russ Mayo and Gabriel Valdez. On Friday, I moderate…

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I'll be back in his classroom, back in competition, back on my own feet. Or rather, back on my own one foot.

– Padma Venkatraman, A Time to Dance

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Book Review: Climbing the Stairs

Climbing the Stairsby Padma Venkatraman (Goodreads Author) 2.5 out of 5 stars Vidya is 15 years old during WWII, and she worries that her family will arrange a marriage for her before she can finish school or go to college like she dreams. All around her, the world is in turmoil as British-occupied India fights on all sides, not only against Germany and Japan, but against the racism and…

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Em vẫn yêu chị, nhưng sống vì hôm nay chứ không phải hôm qua.

Cuối cùng em cũng hiểu ra rằng: Bước tiếp không có nghĩa là bỏ chị lại phía sau.

Và em nghĩ cách sống quan trọng hơn việc ta sống được bao lâu. Từng khoảnh khắc hạnh phúc chúng ta có, từng chút tình yêu chúng ta chia sẻ, hết thảy vẫn rực sáng. Chị em ta vẫn ở bên nhau, điều đó tồn tại trong tim em và mãi mãi như thế!

Trên cây cầu đổ nát - Padma Venkatraman