Young Adult & Adult Literature:

Title Author Description Link to Purchase

Young Adult Literature

Say What You Will Cammie Born with cerebral palsy, https://www.amazon
McGovern Amy can't walk without a .com/Say-What-Will-
walker, talk without a voice Cammie-
box, or even fully control her McGovern/dp/00622
facial expressions. Plagued 71113/ref=sr_1_2?k
by obsessive-compulsive eywords=say+what
disorder, Matthew is +you+will+book&qid
consumed with repeated =1574366535&sr=8
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thoughts, neurotic rituals,
and crippling fear. Both in
desperate need of someone
to help them reach out to the
world, Amy and Matthew are
more alike than either ever
realized.

Out of my Mind Sharon Draper Eleven-year-old Melody is https://www.amazon

not like most people. She .com/Out-My-Mind-
can’t walk. She can’t talk. Sharon-
She can’t write. All because Draper/dp/1416971
she has cerebral palsy. But 718/ref=sr_1_1?key
she also has a photographic words=out+of+my+
memory; she can remember mind&qid=1574366
every detail of everything 840&sr=8-1
she has ever experienced.
She’s the smartest kid in her
whole school, but NO ONE
knows it. Most people—her
teachers, her doctors, her
classmates—dismiss her as
mentally challenged because
she can’t tell them otherwise.
But Melody refuses to be
defined by her disability. And
she’s determined to let
everyone know it…somehow.

Fish in a Tree Lynda Mullaly Ally has been smart enough https://www.amazon
Hunt to fool a lot of smart people. .com/Fish-Tree-
Every time she lands in a Lynda-Mullaly-
 new school, she is able to Hunt/dp/014242642
hide her inability to read by 3/ref=pd_bxgy_14_i
creating clever yet disruptive mg_2/135-2400986-
distractions. She is afraid to 0714232?_encoding
ask for help; after all, how =UTF8&pd_rd_i=01
can you cure dumb? 42426423&pd_rd_r
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teacher Mr. Daniels sees the 459c-95cb-
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bright, creative kid
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underneath the trouble
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maker. With his help, Ally _p=09627863-9889-
learns not to be so hard on 4290-b90a-
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nothing to be ashamed of. As d_r=5WWT5ZFV2N
her confidence grows, Ally 1DZBF17W0N&psc
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with possibilities. She N
discovers that there’s a lot
more to her—and to
everyone—than a label, and
that great minds don’t always
think alike.

Stoner & Spaz Ron Koertge For sixteen-year-old Ben https://www.amazon

Bancroft - a kid with cerebral .com/Stoner-Spaz-
palsy, no parents, and an Ron-Koertge-
overprotective grandmother - ebook/dp/B004XI81
the closest thing to 6U/ref=sr_1_1?key
happiness is hunkering alone words=stoner+%26
in the back of the Rialto +spaz&qid=157436
Theatre watching Bride of 7724&s=books&sr=
1-1
Frankenstein for the
umpteenth time. Of course
he waits for the lights to dim
before making an entrance,
so that his own lurching
down the aisle doesn’t look
like an ad for Monster Week.
The last person he wants to
run into is drugged-up
Colleen Minou, resplendent
in ripped tights, neon
miniskirt, and an impressive
array of tattoos. But when
Colleen climbs into the seat
beside him and rests a
 woozy head on his shoulder,
Ben has that unmistakable
feeling that his life is about to
change.

Now Playing: Stoner Ron Koertge Beautiful but troubled https://www.amazon

& Spaz II Colleen Minou is the only girl .com/Now-Playing-
who ever looked at Ben Stoner-Spaz-
Bancroft as more than a spaz II/dp/0763650811
— more than just that kid
with cerebral palsy. Yet the
more time Ben spends with
her, the more glaring their
differences appear. Is what
Ben feels for Colleen actual
affection, or more like
gratitude? Then there’s Amy
(aka A.J.), who is everything
Colleen isn’t, and everything
Ben’s grandma wants for
him: clean-cut and upper-
class, academically driven,
just as obsessed with
filmmaking as Ben is. But
what does A.J. see when she
looks at Ben? CP? Or the
person behind the twisted
body? In Ron Koertge’s
sharp, darkly humorous
follow-up to the award-
winning Stoner & Spaz, Ben
tries to come to terms with
his confused feelings toward
A.J. and his inimitable
connection to Colleen, who
is sometimes out of it,
sometimes into him, and
always exhilarating.

Adult Literature

Stuck in Neutral Terry Trueman Shawn McDaniel's life is not https://www.amazon

what it may seem to anyone .com/Stuck-Neutral-
looking at him. He is glued to Terry-
his wheelchair, unable to Trueman/dp/006447
voluntarily move a muscle— 2132/ref=sr_1_1?cri
he can't even move his eyes. d=273EYZ9KR7DO
 For all Shawn's father knows, O&keywords=stuck
his son may be suffering. +in+neutral&qid=15
Shawn may want a release. 74366713&sprefix=
And as long as he is unable stuck+in+ne%2Cap
to communicate his true s%2C138&sr=8-1
feelings to his father,
Shawn's life is in danger. To
the world, Shawn's senses
seem dead. Within these
pages, however, we meet a
side of him that no one else
has seen—a spirit that is rich
beyond imagining, breathing
life.

Life Happens Next Terry Trueman Shawn's got a new https://www.amazon

perspective on life. But no .com/Life-Happens-
one has a clue. That's Next-Stuck-
because they can see only Neutral/dp/0062028
his wheelchair, his limp body, 030/ref=sr_1_1?key
his drool. What they don't words=life+happens
see? His brain, with perfect +next&qid=1574369
auditory memory. And his 192&sr=8-1
heart, which is in love with a
girl. And his fierce belief that
someday someone will
realize there's way more to
him than his appearance.

Don’t Stop the Music Robert Perske Joe and Jessica, two teens https://www.amazon
with cerebral palsy, become .com/Dont-Stop-
key elements in cracking an Music-Robert-
auto-theft ring. Perske/dp/0687110
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words=dont+stop+th
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