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Fiction Featuring Type 1 Diabetics

In the US alone there are an estimated 2 million people living with type 1 diabetes. This list goes out to all the fellow type 1 and otherwise insulin dependent diabetics out there looking for representation. These portrayals are honest and accurate, so you won’t find any wild misinformation in this list. No demoralizing apocalypse stories, either. #IndyPLKids #IndyPLTeens #IndyPLAdults

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  • Juvenile Fiction. Also available in eBook and Downloadable Audiobook format. | Ber can summon demons to help her with any task you can imagine, all with just a prick of her finger. But what happens when Ber is diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — J FIC EDG
  • Juvenile Fiction. Also available in eBook and Downloadable Audiobook format. | Alaina reunites with her old friend Liam when she comes to realize he is being affected by a curse of some kind. And Alaina knows all about working with invisible illness.
    Book, 2024[Salt Lake City, Utah] : Shadow Mountain Publishing, 2024. — J FIC SWO
  • Juvenile Fiction. | Two girls share a bag of jelly beans in the nurses office, each facing their own struggles. For one it’s poverty and the loss of a parent. For the other it’s an overbearing mother and the social pressures of a life with type 1…
    Book, 2021New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2021] — J FIC WEE
  • Juvenile Fiction. | Thirteen year old Blue is tired of being the sick girl and poster child for her local diabetes fundraisers. Accompanied by a new friend and her service dog, Otis, she’s on the hunt for something that will overshadow her disease…
    Book, 2020New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — J FIC YOH
  • Juvenile Fiction. Also available in Playaway and Large Print format. | Sal is a type 1 diabetic, but he’s also a magician. Not just any magician either, as he has the power to “borrow” things from parallel universes. When student council president…
    Book, 2019Los Angeles : Disney Hyperion, 2019. — J FIC HER
  • Juvenile Fiction. | The third book in Ann Martin's The Babysitter's Club series. Stacey contends with her type 1 diabetes and overprotective parents while the Babysitter's Club faces a rival group threatening to put them out of business.
    Book, 2020New York : Scholastic, [2020] — J FIC MAR
  • Juvenile Graphic Novel. | In this adaptation of Ann Martin's The Babysitter's Club series, Stacey contends with her type 1 diabetes and overprotective parents while the Babysitter's Club faces a rival group threatening to put them out of business.
    Graphic Novel, 2015New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, [2015] — J GN TEL
  • Teen Graphic Novel. | Apart from his twin brother, Alec Holland gets along better with plants than he does people. The two of them are forced to move in with their rural cousins due to family matters and Alec brings along his work – research in to…
    Graphic Novel, 2020Burbank, CA : DC Comics, [2020] — TEEN GN STI
  • Teen Graphic Novel. Also available in Ebook format. | A newly diagnosed diabetic and a newly turned vampire find they have much in common as they both struggle to adapt to their new conditions.
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York : First Second, 2024. — TEEN GN SEA
  • Teen Fiction. Also available in Downloadable Audiobook format. | Paranormal podcaster Dare Chase and her diabetic alert dog Waffles are brought to Arrington Estate to investigate rumors of a spirit haunting the property. Though initially disarmed by…
    Book, 2021New York : Razorbill, 2021. — TEEN FIC MAR
  • Teen Fiction | Nolan and Mackenzie have been inseparable best friends since they were little and have faced every diabetic complication together. They want to spend as much time as possible with each other over the summer before they head off to…
    eBook, 2018New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018] — EBOOK LIBBY
  • Adult Fiction. Also available in eBook, Downloadable Audiobook, Audiobook CD, and Large Print formats. | A psychological thriller featuring twin sisters Fern and Rose. When Rose struggles with her infertility, Fern decides that she can have a baby…
    Book, 2021New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021. — FIC HEP
  • Adult Fiction. Also available in eBook, Downloadable Audiobook, Audiobook CD, Playaway and Large Print format. | Siblings Danny and Maeve are each other’s closest confidants in this tale surrounding them, their family and their childhood home. Maeve…
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — FIC PAT
  • Adult Fiction. Also available in eBook, Downloadable Audiobook and Large Print format. | North Woods is a novel about a cabin in the woods and the people who come and go throughout the years. The chapter featuring a diabetic is towards the end,…
    Book, 2023New York : Random House, [2023] — FIC MAS
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    Thirty-one Fantastical Tales by Disabled Authors

    Adult Fiction. | Story 17 in this book, Ziabetes by Lily Jurich, features a refreshing glance at what zombie apocalypse stories could be for insulin-dependent diabetics if they focused less on the doom and gloom of insulin shortage and more on how…
    Book, 2023Portland, Oregon : Forest Avenue Press, [2023] — SF SOU