Reviewing Independent & Traditionally Published Works
To have this tag, a book must have a main or secondary character which is in someway disabled or differently abled, and be portrayed in a positive fashion. If portrayed in a negative fashion, the ‘negative’ must not apply in any way to the person’s disability, but instead to their attitude or something unrelated.
Catrina and her family are moving to the coast of Northern California because her little sister, Maya, is sick. Cat isn’t happy about leaving her friends for Bahía de la Luna, but Maya has cystic fibrosis and will benefit from
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You don’t choose the book—the book chooses you. Sixth grader Spencer Lemon has a degenerative eye disease—and he’s rapidly losing his eyesight. So he has no idea why he was chosen to guard Pandora’s Book. When Ed, the old guy
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Magonia: Aza Ray is drowning in thin air. Since she was a baby, Aza has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that makes it ever harder for her to breathe, to speak—to live. So when Aza catches a glimpse of
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To save humanity, they must give up their own. Adam’s muscular dystrophy has stolen his mobility, his friends, and in a few short years, it will take his life. Virtual reality games are Adam’s only escape from his wheelchair. In
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What’s it about? I Hear a Red Crayon is a true story about a young child growing up as the only sibling of an older brother with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). -From the Netgalley Synopsis My Review of I Hear
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Overall, this is a good book and a great representation of how characters can be disabled without their disabilities defining who they are, even as they play a major role in the story. With some content editing, this could easily go from a good book to a great book. It thoroughly entertained me.
The main character, Denise, is black and autistic. The black is rare enough in a Young Adult and/or Sci-fi novel…but the autism? I can legitimately say this is the first science fiction novel I’ve ever heard of with a main character that has a disability as serious as autism. Up until I read On the Edge of Gone, I’d only experienced three books that even mentioned prominent characters with disabilities.
What’s it about? Sam is a ninth grade girl trying to enjoy her first year of high school. Sam knows she has Down syndrome but she doesn’t feel different; even though other kids sometimes treat her that way. Sam’s new
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Chewy Noh is, first and foremost, a middle-grade mystery dealing with a Korean ghost and a young boy who aces any test or competitions he has. Along the way he learns something unexpected about his cousin, and his family in general.