If you are an educator in PA we can lend you the following books to use in your classrooms. Contact us to learn more.
Book Title | Author | Approx. Grade Level | Topics covered |
Susan Laughs | Jeanne Willis | K-2 | A young girl does all the things kids do! At the end it is revealed she uses a wheelchair. |
Dad and Me in the Morning | Patricia Lakin | K-3 | A deaf boy and his father walk along the beach. |
Where Did My Dream Go? | Nahjee Grant | K-3 | Jasmine is determined to remember her dream. She is a wheelchair user. |
Don’t Call me Special | Pat Thomas | K-3 | A first look at disability. Explains assumptions and inclusion. |
My Travelin’ Eye | Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw | K-4 | A young girl with a “lazy” eye gets new glasses and an eye patch. |
Six Dots | Jen Bryant | K-4 | History of Braille |
The Disability Rights Movement | Amy Hayes | K-4 | A historical look at disability rights for kids. |
El Deafo | Cece Bell | 3-7 | A girl gets hearing aids and finds out she has secret powers because she is Deaf. |
Wonder | R.J. Palacio | 4-9 | Auggie, a boy with a facial difference, attends school. |
Rules | Cynthia Lord | 4-9 | Living with a brother with Autism |
The Reason I Jump | Naoki Higashida | 4-9 | Told from the perspective of a 13 year old boy with Autism. He tells the story of his life. |
Out of my Mind | Sharon Draper | 4-9 | A young girl with Cerebral palsy uses facilitated communication. Bullying, friendship, family |
The Silence Between Us | Alison Gervais | 7-12 | A Deaf teenager navigates going to a hearing school and developing feelings for a hearing boy. |
Will the One-Winged Eagle | Jimmy Curan |
| A one-winged eagle learns to be proud of his differences. |
All Birds Have Anxiety | Kathy Hoopman | K-3 | A book about dealing with anxiety. |
The following books are other books that contain disabled characters or disability as a theme.
Book Title | Author | Grade Level | Topics Covered |
How I Learn | Brenda Miles and Colleen Patterson | K-3 | An introduction to learning disabilities. Everyone learns differently! |
The “All Kinds of Friends” Series | Various Authors | K-3 | A series of books about children with different types of disabilities. |
The “Understanding Differences” Series | Lola M Scheafer | Prek-2 | A series of books about children with different types of disabilities. |
Not So Different | Shane Burcaw | 1-4 | A man with a disability answers questions about being disabled. |
Have Fun, Molly Lou Melon | Patty Lovell | K-3 | Molly Lou Melon plays with a new friend Gertie, who uses crutches. |
King for a Day | Rukhsana Khan | 1-4 | Malik, a boy in a wheelchair, participates in Basant, a kite festival in Pakistan. |
Ernest, the Moose Who Doesn’t Fit | Catherine Rayner | Prek-1 | When Ernest is too big to fit in the book, his friend helps him build a bigger book. An example of the social model. |
The Deaf Musicians | Pete Seeger & Paul Dubois Jacobs | PreK-3 | A group of Deaf musicians form a band. |
Find many of these books being read on our YouTube Read Aloud Playlist.
