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• Blackwater

  Arroyo, Jeannette

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  301p. (Gr. 9+) Tony is a popular high school track star secretly suffering from asthma who aches for his dad's approval. Eli is a quiet boy with a chronic autoimmune disorder that has ravaged his health and social life. What happens when these two…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Words in My Hands

  Asphyxia (Novelist),

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  384 p. (Gr. 8+) Piper has always been told that she needs to compensate for her Deafness in a world made for those who can hear. But when she meets Marley, a new world opens up—one where Deafness is something to celebrate, and where resilience means…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jumper

  Crowder, Melanie

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  327 p. (Gr. 9+) Accepted into the Forest Service's class of smokejumpers, 19-year-old wildland firefighter Blair takes unnecessary risks to prove herself, including hiding her Type I diabetes from her coworkers, and struggles to cope when everything…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Maybe We're Electric

  Emmich, Val

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  276 p. (Gr. 9+) In Edison, New Jersey, in a museum devoted to the inventor Thomas Edison, a loner sixteen-year-old girl with a limb difference and the seemingly coolest boy in school spend the night during a snowstorm, growing close until a shameful…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fade Into the Bright

  Etting, Jessica Koosed,

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  321 p. (Gr. 7+) Abby spends the summer after her senior year of high school—and a life-changing diagnosis of her potential to develop Huntington's disease—with her aunt on Catalina Island, reconnecting with family, forging a new path, and finding…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where You See Yourself

  Forrest, Claire (Young adult author),

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  306 p. (Gr. 8+) Effie, who has cerebral palsy, has goals for her senior year: navigating her way through her high school that is not really wheelchair-friendly, getting into the perfect college, and getting her crush Wilder to accompany her to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Finding Balance

  Gardner, Kati

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  337 p. (Gr. 8+) Teenage cancer survivors Mari (who lost a leg to the disease) and Jase have flirted for years at Camp Chemo, but when she transfers to his high school, their different approaches to their history cause trouble.

• The First Thing About You

  Hayden, Chaz

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  359 p. (Gr. 9+) When Harris, who has spinal muscular atrophy, moves with his family from California to New Jersey, he's determined to be known as more than just the kid in the powered wheelchair. But first things first: he needs to find a new nurse,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It's All in How You Fall

  Henning, Sarah

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  303 p. (Gr. 7+) When one epic face-plant causes gymnast Caroline's back pain to go from chronic to career-ending, her dreams are shattered and her life is flipped upside down. Enter Alex Zavala, who offers to give Caroline a crash course in all the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Breakup Lists

  Khorram, Adib

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  328 p. (Gr. 9+) Jackson, who is hard-of-hearing, is a stage manager for his high school theater group and a bit of a cynic when it comes to romance after his parents' messy divorce. He enjoys making breakup lists for his sister Jasmine, chronicling…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Conditions of a Heart

  Mangle, Bethany

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  341 p. (Gr. 9+) After an incident leads to her suspension, 18-year-old Brynn, who has a high school persona that helps her conceal her Ehlers-Danlos syndrome diagnosis, is shattered, and begins embracing her true self on her journey to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girls Are Never Gone

  Marsh, Sarah Glenn

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  330 p. (Gr. 8+) 17-year-old Dare, who has Type I diabetes, plans to spend her summer debunking a haunting at an historic estate with a dark past, but she finds herself in a life-or-death struggle against a malignant ghost.

• Run on Your New Legs. 1

  Midori, Wataru

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  153 p. (Gr. 8+) Kikuzato's hopes of starting on his school's prestigious soccer team are derailed when a terrible incident costs him his leg. But Chidori, a passing prosthetist, proposes an idea: Chidori will build Kikuzato a brand-new leg designed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Breathing Underwater

  Nash, Abbey Lee

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  (Gr. 9+) 17-year-old competitive swimmer Tess grapples with the upheaval of her carefully planned future following an epilepsy diagnosis, and works to get back in the pool despite her doctor's advice—or her distracting feelings for the new guy.

• At the Speed of Lies

  Otis, Cindy L.

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  349 p. (Gr. 8+) High school junior Quinn, who uses a wheelchair due to her rheumatoid arthritis, gets caught up in the disappearance of kids in a nearby town. She soon begins to suspect there's more to the story than anyone understands, and it is up…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal

  Schreiber, Gretchen,

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  293 p. (Gr. 8+) Ellie, a high schooler with a rare genetic condition called VACTERL syndrome, navigates the divide between her "hospital-life" and "home-life," as a hospital stay brings her closer to Ryan, who challenges her perspective and makes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You, Me, and Our Heartstrings

  See, Melissa

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  303 p. (Gr. 8+) 17-year-olds Daisy, a talented violinist with cerebral palsy, and Noah, a great cellist with severe anxiety, plan to use the holiday concert to land a Julliard audition, but when they are chosen to play a duet, they worry their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Turning

  Smith, Joy L.

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  342 p. (Gr. 8+) Before the "accident", Genie was an aspiring ballerina. Now a paraplegic, she is permanently confined to a wheelchair, and has shut herself off from everyone. But at physical therapy she meets Kyle—and through their growing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Give Me a Sign

  Sortino, Anna

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  320 p. (Gr. 7+) 17-year-old Lilah, who was born Deaf and wears hearing aids, returns to a summer camp for the Deaf and Blind as a counselor, eager to improve her ASL and find her place in the community—but she did not expect to also find romance…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Breathe and Count Back From Ten

  Sylvester, Natalia

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  346 p. (Gr. 9+) Verónica has had many surgeries to manage her hip dysplasia, and swims as a form of physical therapy. But she also dreams of swimming as a mermaid in Mermaid Cove, an underwater attraction where professional mermaids perform in giant…Read moreRead more of this annotation