Children's Book Suggestions | Disability Pride Month 2026

A few of our favorite books about kids with disabilities, including learning disabilities and neurodivergence, published in 2025. For more book ideas, check out our Disability Pride Month 2025 and 2024 lists (picture books and chapter books), our Autism Awareness Month and Mental Health Awareness Month book lists, or browse the library catalog.

More great books are honored annually with the Schneider Family Book Award.

Updated January 30, 2026
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Children's Book Suggestions | Disability Pride Month 2026

A few of our favorite books about kids with disabilities, including learning disabilities and neurodivergence, published in 2025. For more book ideas, check out our Disability Pride Month 2025 and 2024 lists (picture books and chapter books), our Autism Awareness Month and Mental Health Awareness Month book lists, or browse the library catalog.

More great books are honored annually with the Schneider Family Book Award.

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We are the scrappy ones
Taussig, Rebekah
Paper Book
We are the scrappy ones. / We live, we adapt, we defy. / Made of stardust and grit, we are spectacular. Children with disabilities experience the world in all kinds of ways. Yet one thing they share is navigating a world that doesn't always make space for them as they are. Existing on the...

Picture Book (Age 4-8)

The emerald egg
Whaley, Kayla
Paper Book
Solve Animal Mysteries from A to Z! Inspired by Ron Roy's A to Z Mysteries series, this exciting animal adventure mystery is perfect for budding young chapter book readers. This time, 8-year-old Abbi and her friends solve the mystery of missing emu egg! E IS FOR EMU EGG . . .

Bridging Fiction (Grades 2-4)

The Unlikely Heroes Club
Foster, Kate
Paper Book
"This well-designed, empowering tale invites middle grade readers into the perspective of one autistic youth and will appeal to individuals, classrooms, and book clubs alike." --School Library Journal (starred review) Five dog-loving autistic kids have a mission to...

Children's Fiction (Grades 3-5)

Vanya and the Wild Hunt
Mandanna, Sangu
Paper Book
*Winner of the Good Housekeeping Kids' Book Awards* *A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year* From the bestselling author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches comes an action-packed, enchanting middle grade fantasy about a...

Children's Fiction (Grades 3-5)

The bionic boy
Plourde, Lynn
Paper Book
The moving story of a superhero-loving boy born without hands who finds the hero inside himself Benji feels like he's had more than his fair share of good luck-so it's frustrating that his disability tends to make people think the opposite. Adopted from an overseas orphanage when...

Children's Fiction (Grades 3-5)

Hazel has her hands full
Fairbairn, Nathan
Paper Book
More heartwarming and humorous adventures await in the fourth book of this graphic novel series that is the Baby-Sitters Club for pets!     Summer break is just around the corner, and the PAWS team is gearing up for a busy season full of dog-walking,...

Children's Graphic Novel (Grades 3-5)

The girl in the walls
Kuyatt, Meg Eden
Paper Book
There's a ghost in the walls, and V must decide if it is an ally or an enemy. The wrong decision could destroy her and her family. From Schneider Honor Award winning author Meg Eden Kuyatt comes a chilling and insightful novel-in-verse. After a hard school year, V has...

Young Teen Fiction (Grades 5-7)

Please pay attention
Sumner, Jamie
Paper Book
Three starred reviews! A girl with cerebral palsy navigates loss, grief, and the aftermath of trauma following a school shooting in a world that wasn't built for her in this "intimate, lyrical" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) novel in verse from Jamie Sumner, the...

Young Teen Fiction (Grades 5-7)

Very bad at math
Larson, Hope
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling and Eisner Award-winning author Hope Larson comes a middle grade graphic novel full of hijinks, unexpected friendships, and pizza, perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Kayla Miller. Verity "Very" Nelson can do it all. She's student...

Young Teen Graphic Novel (Grades 5-7)

Down syndrome out loud : 20+ true stories of disability and determination
Hart, Melissa
Paper Book
"In a society that often overlooks those with intellectual and developmental disabilities...this book will inspire readers to befriend and champion people with Down syndrome." - JACQUELINE JODL, Special Olympics International In this illustrated biography collection, meet over...

Children's Nonfiction (Age 9-12)

All you can be with ADHD
Holderness, Penn
Paper Book
An INSTANT New York Times Bestseller and USA TODAY Bestseller! From the New York Times bestselling authors of ADHD Is Awesome comes an empowering and joyful picture book that invites young readers to join the ADHD...

Parenting Book (Age 4-8)

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