Middle Grade Reads: Celebrate Disability Pride Month!

July is Disability Pride Month - Check out these chapter book and nonfiction titles for middle grade readers that center the stories of people with disabilities.

Updated June 30, 2026
Rochester Public Library RPL Youth Librarians
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Aven Green, sleuthing machine
Bowling, Dusti
Audiobook
Popcorn
Harrell, Rob
Paper Book
Sometimes life turns up the heat ...
Wildoak
Harrington, C. C.
Paper Book
  An endangered forest. An abandoned snow leopard. A child who only feels comfortable talking to animals. When fates collide, the unbelievable can happen ... 'Put me in mind of Dodi Smith and Gerald Durrell at their very best - enchanting and thrilling in equal measure.'Piers...
Good different
Kuyatt, Meg Eden
Paper Book
A Schneider Family Book Award Honor Book An extraordinary novel-in-verse for fans of Starfish and A Kind of Spark about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate her difference. Selah knows her rules for being normal. She always, always...
Louder than hunger
Schu, John
Paper Book
A Schneider Family Book Award Honor Book "This heart-wrenching verse novel--inspired by the author's experiences . . . is an unflinching depiction of resistance and disordered eating recovery." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Jake volunteers at a...
The view from the very best house in town
Trehan, Meera
Paper Book
"Sam and Asha. Asha and Sam. Their friendship is so long established, they take it for granted. Just as Asha takes for granted that Donnybrooke, the mansion that sits on the highest hill in Coreville, is the best house in town. But when Sam is accepted into snobbish Castleton Academy as an autistic...
My aunt is a monster
Yee, Reimena
Paper Book
Curses! Adventures! And drama! Oh my! Safia might not be able to see the world, but that doesn't mean she can't experience it to the fullest as she finds herself on her very first adventure! This is a contemporary fantasy middle-grade graphic novel about discovering what you are truly capable of....
Shiny misfits
Zayid, Maysoon
Paper Book

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