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• Witch Hat Atelier. Volume 8

  Shirahama, Kamome,

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  This fantasy manga series follows Coco and her friends as they learn magic and navigate the ethical quandaries in their world. Later volumes introduce Custas, a young boy who becomes paralyzed from the waist down. Eventually, he utilizes a sealchair…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Deeplight

  Hardinge, Frances,

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  This dark fantasy world used to be ruled by gods from the deep waters; decades ago, the gods warred amongst each other and died out. Fifteen year old Hark finds the still beating heart of a god and uses it to save his friend, Jelt -- but now Jelt is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bone Houses

  Lloyd-Jones, Emily,

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  This YA historical fantasy involves gravediggers, mysterious disappearances, zombies, and a dash of romance. One of the main characters has chronic pain that affects his daily life and relationships, and this rep is #OwnVoices.

• Unbroken

  13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens

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  This anthology features short stories across multiple genres, including sci-fi and supernatural horror, with a wide range of disability rep, many of them #OwnVoices.

• Vampires Never Get Old

  Tales With Fresh Bite

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  A standout from this collection is "In Kind" by Kayla Whaley. Grace is a seventeen year old disabled girl whose father kills her to gain sympathy from the town. Seanan, a vampire, manages to turn Grace before she dies, and she's able to confront her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Curse So Dark and Lonely

  Kemmerer, Brigid,

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  A modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast, where our main character, Harper, gets kidnapped from our world and taken to Emberfell, where Prince Rhen is under a curse. Harper has cerebral palsy and won't let others underestimate her.

• Into the Drowning Deep

  Grant, Mira,

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  Mira Grant showcases just how scary the deep ocean can be in this science fiction/horror story about vicious mermaids. Told through multiple perspectives, this book features a diverse group of scientists making a trip down into the Mariana Trench in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Borderline

  Baker, Mishell,

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  In this urban fantasy debut, Millie Roper is a cynical, paraplegic screenwriter with Borderline Personality Disorder. She gets recruited by a secret organization that oversees the Fae and their exploits in Hollywood.

• Lakelore

  McLemore, Anna-Marie,

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  Beautiful and emotionally resonant, Lakelore tells the story of two nonbinary teens and a magical world beneath a lake. Bastián Silvano handles aspects of their ADHD by creating alebrijes -- papier-mâché sculptures of mythical creatures -- and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Warcross

  Lu, Marie, 1984-

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  In this YA science fiction entry, Emika Chen is an accomplished hacker in the world's biggest virtual reality game, the titular Warcross. When she glitches into the first game of the championships, she ends up becoming involved with the game's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cinder

  Meyer, Marissa

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  Each book in this science fiction series is a retelling of a classic fairy tale (Cinder = Cinderella). In Cinder's future earth, limb differences can be aided with cybernetic components. However, cyborgs are stigmatized, shunned, and abused in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Gray House / Mariam Petrosyan ; Translated by Yuri Machkasov

  Petrosyan, Mariam, 1969-

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  The Gray House is a large, sprawling, living thing, where a diverse range of orphans with various disabilities (wheelchair users, blindness, and prosthetic limbs are represented) are kept apart from The Outsides. As surreal occurrences and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Daughter of the Trolls

  a Numina Parable

  Catron, McKenzie,

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  A magical coming of age story that is from an #OwnVoices author. Sparrow uses a wheelchair due to a heart condition. She has lived her whole life protecting the Glade with her mother, but circumstances arise, and she must venture out into the world…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Challenger Deep

  Shusterman, Neal,

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  Challenger Deep was heavily inspired by Neal Shusterman's son's experience with schizophrenia. Brendan also did the Illustrations in the book. Main character Caden Bosch is on a pirate ship with a wild captain, tasked with documenting their journey…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mooncakes

  Walker, Suzanne (Suzanne Wakeen),

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  Nova is a novice witch who uses hearing aids. When her childhood crush, Tam, returns to town, they must team up to defeat a demon that wants to consume Tam's werewolf magic.

• Trespass Against Us

  Kemp, Leon,

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  This supernatural horror title is a classic returning to a haunted house with a film crew tale. Teens Riley, his friend's Vee and Colton, and Riley's boyfriend, Ethan, spent one terrible night at Saint Dominic Savio's School for Troubled Youth.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Final Strife

  a Novel

  El-Arifi, Saara,

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  This epic fantasy tome is inspired by Ghanaian folklore and Arabian myths. Told from three different POVs across three different class levels, one main character, Hassa, had her hands and tongue cut off when she was a child and communicates with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On the Edge of Gone

  Duyvis, Corinne,

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  In this alternate universe science fiction survival tale, a comet is on a collision course with Earth. Sixteen year old Denise, who is Autistic, is trying to find her missing sister and get her unreliable mother onto a generational spaceship before…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are Satellites

  Pinsker, Sarah,

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  This five minutes into the future sci-fi story focuses on a family's reaction to a new technology being pushed on everyone: a brain implant called Pilot that is supposed to help with multi-tasking. Moms Val and Julie are opposed, until the pressure…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Soul Jar

  Thirty-one Fantastical Tales by Disabled Authors

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  Thank you to IndyPL_GwendolynS's list titled "Fiction Featuring Type 1 Diabetics" for introducing me to this anthology. Featuring all #OwnVoices authors, there is a wide variety of disabilities represented in these stories and quite a few different…Read moreRead more of this annotation