9 Best nonfiction books like Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution by Judith Heumann

Cover of Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution by Judith Heumann

Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution

By: Judith Heumann

4.40

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

As featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp , and for readers of I Am Malala , one of …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution by Judith Heumann , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Paper Things

By: Jennifer Richard Jacobson

3.10

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

When forced to choose between staying with her guardian and being with her big brother, Ari chose h… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens

2. Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March

By: Susan Buckley , Elspeth Leacock , None , None

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes As the youngest marcher in th… read more

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3. Bone Gap

By: Laura Ruby

3.89

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps--gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disa… read more

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4. Under the Egg

By: Laura Marx Fitzgerald

4.09

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweilermeets Chasing Vermeerin this clever middle-grad… read more

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5. One for All

By: Lillie Lainoff

3.88

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

An OwnVoices, gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers, in which a girl with a chronic illness… read more

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  • disability
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6. Mascot

By: Charles Waters

4.02

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

What if a school's mascot is seen as racist, but not by everyone? In this compelling middle-grade n… read more

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  • middle grade
  • social justice
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7. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

By: Alice Wong

4.47

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more

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  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • disability
"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Cover of Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig

8. Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

By: Rebekah Taussig

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Re… read more

Similar categories in Rebekah Taussig's Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body book and Judith Heumann's Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • disability
"The goal is not to avoid falling or needing help. The goal is to be seen, asked, heard, believed, valued as we are, allowed to exist in these exact bodies, invited to the party, and encouraged to dan…"

-Rebekah Taussig, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

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9. Sunshine: A Graphic Novel

By: Jarrett J. Krosoczka

4.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary--and extraordinarily powerful--follow-up to HEY, KIDDO. When Jarrett J. Krosoc… read more

Similar categories in Jarrett J. Krosoczka's Sunshine: A Graphic Novel book and Judith Heumann's Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution

  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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10. Across So Many Seas

By: Ruth Behar

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Spanning over 500 years, Pura Belpré Award winner Ruth Behar's epic novel tells the stories of four… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Behar's Across So Many Seas book and Judith Heumann's Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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11. The In-Between

By: Rebecca Ansari

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Cooper is lost. Ever since his father left their family three years ago, he has become distant from… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Ansari's The In-Between book and Judith Heumann's Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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12. The Chance to Fly

By: Ali Stroker

4.29

Format: 288 pages, None

A heartfelt middle-grade novel about a theater-loving girl who uses a wheelchair for mobility and h… read more

Similar categories in Ali Stroker's The Chance to Fly book and Judith Heumann's Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • disability
Cover of Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever by Eddie Ndopu

13. Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever

By: Eddie Ndopu

4.31

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A memoir penned with one good finger, Ndopu writes about being profoundly disabled and profoundly s… read more

Similar categories in Eddie Ndopu's Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever book and Judith Heumann's Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • disability
Cover of Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution by Judith Heumann

14. Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution

By: Judith Heumann

4.40

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

As featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp , and for readers of I Am Malala , one of … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • childrens
  • politics
  • middle grade
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • disability
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15. What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

By: Erin Williams

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“A humane and gripping work that illuminates how (and why) our treatments of chronic illness fail, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • disability
Cover of Just Read It: Unlocking the Magic of Independent Reading in Middle and High School Classrooms (Corwin Literacy) by Jarred Amato

16. Just Read It: Unlocking the Magic of Independent Reading in Middle and High School Classrooms (Corwin Literacy)

By: Jarred Amato

4.64

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

Read widely and read often - create a classroom environment where independent reading thrives In… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Fungarium

By: Katie Scott

4.32

Format: 75 pages, Kindle Edition

Illustrator Katie Scott returns to the Welcome to the Museum series with exquisite, detailed images… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
Cover of The Civil War of Amos Abernathy by Michael Leali

18. The Civil War of Amos Abernathy

By: Michael Leali

4.30

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt debut novel about a boy's attempt to find himself in the history he loves--perfect for … read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
"Just because a bunch of mostly white men hammered history into one shape, it doesn’t mean they got it right."

-Michael Leali, The Civil War of Amos Abernathy

"Maybe, if we want things to change, we have to stop waiting. Maybe we just need to do something about it ourselves."

-Michael Leali, The Civil War of Amos Abernathy

"As long as there are people on the planet, life will be unfair, but that doesn’t mean we have to put up with hatred or bigotry."

-Michael Leali, The Civil War of Amos Abernathy

"Most all my life, I have blindly accepted what was written in history books and taught in classes. I didn’t think to ask if there was more to the story."

-Michael Leali, The Civil War of Amos Abernathy

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19. Haven Jacobs Saves the Planet

By: Barbara Dee

4.17

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

Twelve-year-old Haven Jacobs can’t stop thinking about the climate crisis. In fact, her anxiety abo… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
Cover of Fighting for YES!: The Story of Disability Rights Activist Judith Heumann by Maryann Cocca-Leffler

20. Fighting for YES!: The Story of Disability Rights Activist Judith Heumann

By: Maryann Cocca-Leffler

4.38

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

From a very young age, Judy Heumann heard the word NO. When she wanted to attend public school, the… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • childrens
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • disability
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21. World Made of Glass

By: Ami Polonsky

4.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A girl channels her grief and pain into love and activism in this heartbreaking, heart-mending nove… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
"I’m not strong,"

-Ami Polonsky, World Made of Glass

"We are dying because we are gay."

-Ami Polonsky, World Made of Glass

"I said, ‘Mom, I’m a homosexual,’ and she put down the glass that she was washing and said, ‘Jason Randolph Holmes, the world is going to try very hard to convince you that there’s something wrong wit…"

-Ami Polonsky, World Made of Glass

"Julian felt both familiar and unfamiliar, like he understood maybe the tiniest thing about what I was going through while, at the same time, still being a total stranger. I imagined a paperweight hea…"

-Ami Polonsky, World Made of Glass

10 must-read childrens books like Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution by Judith Heumann

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Jennifer Richard Jacobson

3.10

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4.12

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4.10

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Ali Stroker

4.29

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Neal Shusterman

4.14

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Jarrett Lerner

4.40

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Dan Santat

4.39

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Thien Pham

4.29

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