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Summer on the Short Bus

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How to Keep Rolling After a Fall

Karole Cozzo · 247 pages

Mean girl Nikki Baylor, accused of a cyberbullying incident that nearly resulted in a classmate's suicide, is expelled from school, abandoned by her friends, and distrusted by her parents but she gets a second chance after meeting Pax, a spirited wheelchair rugby player.

Disability RepresentationRedemption ArcYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Great

Sara Benincasa · 263 pages

In this contemporary retelling of The Great Gatsby, seventeen-year-old Naomi Rye becomes entangled in the drama of a Hamptons social circle and a tragedy that shakes the summer community.

Summer VibesWealthy ProtagonistYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

Sarah Ockler · 409 pages

After a boating accident takes her voice, Elyse d'Abreau leaves her home in Tobago to stay in an Oregon seaside town, where Christian Kane, a notorious playboy, challenges her to express herself and to overcome her fear of the sea.

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Everything Beautiful

Simmone Howell · 290 pages

When sixteen-year-old Riley unwillingly attends a religious summer camp, she forms a deep bond with another camper who happens to be wheelchair bound.

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Small Steps

Louis Sachar · 272 pages

Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin, Texas, trying to turn his life around. But it's hard when you have a record, and everyone expects the worst from you. The only person who believes in him is Ginny, his 10-year old disabled neighbor. Together, they are learning to take small steps. And he seems to be on the right path, until X-Ray, a buddy from Camp Gree

Disability RepresentationRedemption ArcYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Firecracker

David Iserson · 331 pages

Expelled for cheating at her private school, seventeen-year-old Astrid, who lives in a rocket ship parked in her backyard, must attend public school where she learns some lessons about family, friendship, and romance.

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Getting Over Garrett Delaney

Abby McDonald · 326 pages

Seventeen-year-old Sadie Allen has spent the last two years pining for her best friend, Garrett, but when he heads off to literary camp for the summer without her, she decides to kick her unrequited crush for good, with the help of her co-workers, another boy, and her own summer twelve-step program.

Summer VibesYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorContemporary Fiction
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Five Flavors of Dumb

Antony John · 337 pages

Eighteen-year-old Piper becomes the manager for her classmates' popular rock band, called Dumb, giving her the chance to prove her capabilities to her parents and others, if only she can get the band members to get along.

Disability RepresentationYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorContemporary Fiction
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A Quiet Kind of Thunder

Sara Barnard · 363 pages

Steffi doesn't talk. Rhys can't hear. They understand each other perfectly. Love isn't always a lightning strike. Sometimes it's the rumbling roll of thunder ... Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life - she's been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He's deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she's ass

Disability RepresentationYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorContemporary Fiction
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A Silent Voice, Vol. 7

Yoshitoki Oima · 192 pages

Shoya’s life hangs on by a thread after he jumped just in time to save Shoko. Despite the despair, Shoko is determined to move forward and get back what she thinks she has ruined… But broken friendships can heal, too. Quietly, but surely, the disbanded crew finds their spirit — the show must go on! As the movie-making reconvenes, the kids begin to transform the world that had once been so cruel to

Disability RepresentationRedemption ArcYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Rules of Summer

Joanna Philbin · 352 pages

Spending the summer working as an errand girl for the Rule family in the Hamptons, seventeen-year-old Rory befriends the family's teenaged daughter and develops feelings for their older son, but she finds that societal rules can be hard to break.

Summer VibesWealthy ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Words in the Dust

Trent Reedy · 272 pages

Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilirating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to read, her older sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft palate.

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Only in Your Dreams

Cecily von Ziegesar · 229 pages

Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where the girls are dazzling, the guys are gorgeous, and the summer heat is the perfect excuse to throw a fabulous roof-deck pool party. As if we need a reason!It's our last summer together before heading off to college, and things are sizzling -- no, it's not just the weather. Despite that steamy kiss on graduation night, Blair, Serena, and Nate have go

Summer VibesWealthy ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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The Last Song

Nicholas Sparks · 390 pages

#1 bestselling author Nicholas Sparks's new novel is at once a compelling family drama and a heartrending tale of young love.Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father...until her

Redemption ArcSummer VibesContemporary FictionYoung Adult
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Invincible Summer

Hannah Moskowitz · 269 pages

Over the course of several summers on the Atlantic coast, Chase struggles with his feelings for his best friend's sisters in the beach house next door while trying to get his own family through seemingly insurmountable problems.

Summer VibesDisability RepresentationYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Paradise

Simone Elkeles · 290 pages

YA. Love stories. Leaving Paradise: Nothing has been the same since Caleb Becker left a party drunk, got behind the wheel and hit Maggie Armstrong. Even after months of painful physical therapy, Maggie walks with a limp. Her social life is nil and a scholarship to study abroad -her chance to escape everyone and their pitying stares has been cancelled. After a year in juvenile jail, Caleb's free if

Disability RepresentationRedemption ArcYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Greed

Fisher Amelie · 342 pages

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A Corner of the Universe

Ann M. Martin · 189 pages

The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town.

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Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty

Jody Gehrman · 256 pages

Summer VibesYoung AdultContemporary FictionFirst Person Narrator
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You're Welcome, Universe

Whitney Gardner · 297 pages

When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a "mainstream" school in the suburbs, where she's treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The la

Disability RepresentationYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorContemporary Fiction
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The Running Dream

Wendelin Van Draanen · 336 pages

When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.

Disability RepresentationYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorContemporary Fiction
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Blind

Rachel DeWoskin · 405 pages

After a horrific accident leaves her blind, fifteen-year-old Emma, one of seven children, eagerly starts high school as a sophomore, and finds that nearly everything has changed--sometimes for the better. After a horrific accident leaves her blind, fifteen-year-old Emma eagerly starts high school as a sophomore and finds that nearly everything has changed, sometimes for the better. The plot conta

Disability RepresentationYoung AdultContemporary FictionFirst Person Narrator
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