7 Top middle grade books like The Disability Experience: Working Toward Belonging (Orca Issues, 5) by Hannalora Leavitt

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The Disability Experience: Working Toward Belonging (Orca Issues, 5)

By: Hannalora Leavitt

3.53

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

People with disabilities (PWDs) have the same aspirations for their lives as you do for yours. The …

If you liked the middle grade plot in The Disability Experience: Working Toward Belonging (Orca Issues, 5) by Hannalora Leavitt , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

By: bell hooks

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between variou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • social justice
Cover of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

2. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

By: Nancy Isenberg

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

3. Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot

By: Winifred Conkling

4.25

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

On August 18, 1920, American women finally won the right to vote. Ratification of the 19th Amendmen… read more

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4. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

By: Julia Alvarez

3.63

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Uprooted from their family home in the Dominican Republic, the four Garcia sisters - Carla, Sandra,… read more

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5. Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World

By: Sarah Prager

4.00

Format: 191 pages,

This first-ever LGBTQ history book for young adults will appeal to fans of fun, empowering pop-cult… read more

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6. My Plain Jane (The Lady Janies, #2)

By: Brodi Ashton , Cynthia Hand , Jodi Meadows

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

You may think you know the story. After a miserable childhood, penniless orphan Jane Eyre embarks o… read more

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7. Graceful (Willow Falls, #5)

By: Wendy Mass

4.43

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

Angelina D'Angelo has left town to see the world. It's now Grace's turn to use her magic to protect… read more

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8. Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope

By: Kwame Alexander

4.31

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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9. Flamer

By: Mike Curato

4.32

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author and artist Mike Curato draws on his own experiences in Flamer, his debut graph… read more

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  • teen
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10. Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust

By: Neal Shusterman

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award winner Neal Shusterman presents a graphic novel exploring the Holocaust through… read more

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  • middle grade
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11. Gender Queer

By: Maia Kobabe

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more

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  • nonfiction
"I don't"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

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12. 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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  • 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

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13. A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo

By: Jill Twiss

4.64

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Marlon Bundo, a lonely bunny who lives with his Grampa Mike Pence, the former Vice President o… read more

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"Stink bugs are temporary. Love is forever."

-Jill Twiss, A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo

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14. Simon Sort of Says

By: Erin Bow

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Simon O’Keeffe’s biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a ho… read more

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  • middle grade
"Dad picks Denver [to get his rabies shots], and he's totally fine, but he's going to be away for three days. "Just like Jesus," Mom says. I can hear the phone say, "Isobel!"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

"In the tabernacle did the [squirrel]--" "Eat the Host?" says Dad. "Yes he did." "And was it--" "Consecrated?" says Dad. "Yes it was." ... "What, uh, happened to the squirrel?" "That squirrel is now 3…"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

"The dog- Todd?- looks up from its leaking beer, puffs a sigh, then crosses the room to head-butt the fridge door closed. "Ummm" I manage "Did you see he got a--" "It's okay," she says. "He only has o…"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

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15. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

By: Rhaina Cohen

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Out of My Heart (The Out of My Mind Series)

By: Sharon M. Draper

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Melody faces her fears to follow her passion in this sequel to Out of My Mind.Melody is a year olde… read more

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  • middle grade
  • disability
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17. Where You See Yourself

By: Claire Forrest

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Where You See Yourself combines an unforgettable coming-of-age tale, a swoon-worthy romance, and mu… read more

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  • disability
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18. A Kind of Spark

By: Elle McNicoll

4.52

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

A neurodivergent girl campaigns for a memorial when she learns that her small Scottish town used to… read more

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  • middle grade
  • disability
"No horrible, awful, rubbish day is worth damaging a library book."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

"Autistic people have probably done so much for hundreds of years without any credit."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

"While you are neurotypical and I am autistic, I promise we are more alike than we are different."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

"Books are not medicine, they are food. You won't remember every bite but you will remember the taste."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

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19. You, Me, and Our Heartstrings

By: Melissa See

3.63

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Daisy and Noah have the same plan: use the holiday concert to land a Julliard audition. But when th… read more

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  • disability
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20. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.46

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa… read more

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  • disability
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • disability studies
"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

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21. Wave: A Novel in Verse

By: Diana Farid

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age novel in verse set in 1980s Southern California, about a Persian American girl who … read more

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  • middle grade
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22. Firebird

By: Sunmi

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Sunmi's gorgeous two-color teen graphic novel debut examines the power of resilience and reinventio… read more

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23. Phoebe's Diary

By: Phoebe Wahl

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! Drawn from real life, here is a bracingly honest illustrated diary of… read more

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  • teen
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24. The Deep Dark

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

4.42

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator, comes a darkly beautiful story of identity, family, l… read more

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

25. 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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  • history
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • disability
Cover of Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines by Jonathan Mooney

26. Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines

By: Jonathan Mooney

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Confessional and often hilarious, in Normal Sucks a neuro-diverse writer, advocate, and father medi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • disability
Cover of Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today by Alice  Wong

27. Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today

By: Alice Wong

4.25

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Disabled young people will be proud to see themselves reflected in this hopeful, compelling, and in… read more

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  • social justice
  • nonfiction
  • teen
  • disability
"Art isn’t necessarily about beauty. Art is supposed to make you feel something. And I began to realize that my appearance is my art. My body, my face, my scars told a story. My story. - Ariel Henly"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today

"Disability is both apparent and nonapparent. Disability is pain, struggle, brilliance, abundance, and joy. Disability is sociopo- litical, cultural, and biological. Being visible and claiming a disab…"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today

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28. Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World

By: Ben Mattlin

4.24

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

A disabled journalist documents how the “ADA Generation” has grown up, the rise of neurodiversity, … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • disability studies
  • disability
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29. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum

By: Bex Ollerton

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A colorful and eclectic comics anthology exploring a wide range of autistic experiences—from diagno… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • disability
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30. The Disability Experience: Working Toward Belonging (Orca Issues, 5)

By: Hannalora Leavitt

3.53

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

People with disabilities (PWDs) have the same aspirations for their lives as you do for yours. The … read more

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  • history
  • teen
  • unfinished
  • disability
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • disability studies
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31. Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2)

By: Aiden Thomas

4.42

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Teo never thought he could be a Hero. Now, he doesn’t have a choice. The sun is gone, the Obsid… read more

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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

bell hooks

3.91

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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nancy Isenberg

5.00

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

Judith Heumann

4.40

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Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World

Ben Mattlin

4.24

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Hungry Ghost

Victoria Ying

4.01

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Faith Erin Hicks

3.96

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Eunnie

4.44

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Rey Terciero

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