Disability Pride Picks for Teens by Julia

The story of a teenage girl with cerebral palsy.

The author describes the challenges he faces as a twenty-one-year-old with spinal muscular atrophy.

Ariana Ruiz wants to be noticed. But as an autistic girl who never talks, she goes largely ignored by her peers–despite her bold fashion choices. So when cute, popular Luis starts to pay attention to her, Ari finally feels seen.

Blind sixteen-year-old Parker Grant navigates friendships and romantic relationships, including a run-in with a boy who previously broke her heart, while coping with her father’s recent death.

Born with cerebral palsy, Amy can’t walk without a walker, talk without a voice box, or even fully control her facial expressions. Plagued by obsessive-compulsive disorder, Matthew is consumed with repeated thoughts, neurotic rituals, and crippling fear. When Amy decides to hire student aides to help her in her senior year of high school, these two teens are thrust into each other’s lives, and as they begin to spend time with each other, what started as a friendship eventually grows into something neither expected.

Planning the best summer ever, Andrea Williams realizes that there’s just one thing that could ruin it: her best friend Hailee finding out her true feelings, so Andrea will fall out of love with her–or so she thinks.

After moving to Colorado, deaf seventeen-year-old Maya is forced to attend a hearing school, where she must navigate a new life and prove that her lack of hearing will not stop her from pursuing her dreams. Includes an interview with the author.

In this sequel to Dancing Daisies, Brynn has to decide what she truly wants from her life and where her heart is telling her to go.

Effie Galanos’ goals for her senior year include her navigating her way through her high school that is not really wheelchair-friendly, getting into the perfect college, and getting her crush Wilder to accompany her to the prom–but by spring she is beginning to see herself entirely differently.