Meanwhile, the Goodreads list of YA books with disabled characters has just 90 titles on it. have a disability–about 19% of the population. And books about disability that were actually accurate? Forget about it.Īnd I’ll be honest–I’m mad about it. I’ve been wanting to write about disability in YA for a long time, but I was having some trouble, mostly because there’s just a severe lack of it.

I figured that I might as well do something productive, so now I’m writing this post and smearing my keyboard with pizza sauce in the process. For the purposes of this post, I won’t be talking about mental illness or mental disability in YA, but if you want to read about this topic, this article, this article, and this article are great places to start.Īnyway, chag Pesach sameach, readers! I’m currently sitting at the dining room table, eating all the bread products I can before the sun goes down. That’s because a) I don’t feel nearly qualified enough to write about that, and b) there have been lots of books released lately about mental illness in a way that there hasn’t been for people with physical disabilities. DISCLAIMER: You’ll probably notice that I don’t talk about mental illness in this post.

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