Teen Reads: Celebrate Disability Pride Month!

July is Disability Pride Month - Check out these fiction and nonfiction titles for teen readers that center the stories of people with disabilities.

Updated July 1, 2026
Rochester Public Library RPL Teens
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A face for Picasso : coming of age with Crouzon syndrome
Henley, Ariel
Paper Book
A Schneider Family Book Award Honor Book for Teens "Raw and unflinching . . . A must-read!" --Marieke Nijkamp, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends "[It] cuts to the heart of our bogus ideas of beauty." -Scott Westerfeld,...
The breakup lists
Khorram, Adib
Audiobook
Love is more complicated than "boy meets boy" in bestselling author Adib Khorram's sharply funny new romantic comedy, set in the sordid world of high school theater Jackson Ghasnavi is a lot of things--a techie, a smoothie afficionado, a totally not obsessive list-maker--but one...
Daniel, deconstructed
Ramos, James.
Stars in their eyes
Walton, Jessica
Paper Book
Maisie has always dreamed of meeting her hero, Kara Bufano, an amputee actor who plays a kick-arse amputee character in her favourite show. Fancon is big and exciting and exhausting. Then she meets Ollie, a cute volunteer who she has a lot in common with. Could this be the start of something, or...
Hell followed with us
White, Andrew Joseph
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. "A long, sustained scream to the various strains of anti-transgender legislation multiplying around the world...

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