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• All the Stars Align

  Schreiber, Gretchen,

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  All the women in Piper’s family know their true love at first sight, complete with butterflies, heart eyes, and a gut instinct. The kind of fated love that lasts forever. Piper grew up with her ancestors' epic love stories repeated like fairy tales,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Started It

  Khalilieh, Jackie,

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  Seventeen-year-old Jamie Taher-Foster has big plans for senior year. She’s made a list of things and places in Toronto she and her boyfriend of three years, Ben Cameron, need to check off before graduating. And the biggest plan of all: a very…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Noise at Once

  Davis, DeAndra,

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  All Aiden has ever wanted to do was play football just like his star quarterback brother, Brandon. An overstimulation meltdown gets in the way of Aiden making the team during summer tryouts, but when the school year starts and a spot unexpectedly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Navigating With You

  Whitley, Jeremy,

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  Cerebral Palsy. Neesha Sparks is a disabled, vocal community activist with a passion for costume design. Gabby Graciana is an optimistic surfer - and, like Neesha, a new kid at school. When the two girls discover that they like the same manga…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On the Bright Side

  Sortino, Anna,

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  Ellie’s Deaf boarding school just shut down, forcing her to leave the place she considered home and return to her hearing family. But being mainstreamed into public school isn’t exactly easy. So her guidance counselor pairs her with Jackson, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Diet Soda Club

  Hayden, Chaz,

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  Reed Beckett’s little sister, Beatrice, has never been awakened by the smell of breakfast or a school-day alarm clock. Instead, she wakes to hospital beeps and poking doctors. Seventeen-year-old Reed has been there for Bea all along, especially…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dust

  Stine, Alison, 1978-

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  Hard of Hearing/Deaf. In this haunting, speculative coming-of-age novel about finding your place in an unforgiving environment, a partially deaf teen questions everything she knows about family, love, and her future.

• Ariel Crashes a Train

  Cole, Olivia A.,

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  OCD. Ariel grapples with her fear of her own mind and violent fantasies, driven by her desire to meet her parents' expectations and societal norms, until a summer job at a carnival leads her to new friends who help her discover her struggle with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Calculation of You and Me

  Kaylor, Serena,

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  Autism. An autistic calculus nerd enlists her surly classmate's help to win back her ex-boyfriend, but when sparks start to fly, she realizes there is no algorithm for falling in love

• Chronically Dolores

  Van Wagenen, Maya,

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  Chronic bladder condition. Dolores Mendoza is not thriving. She was recently diagnosed with a chronic bladder condition called interstitial cystitis. The painful disease isn't life threatening, but it is threatening to ruin her life. Just when…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Conditions of a Heart

  Mangle, Bethany,

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  Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. After an incident leads to her suspension, eighteen-year-old Brynn's high school persona that hides her secret disability (Ehlers-Danlos syndrome) is shattered, and she begins embracing her true self on her journey to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal

  Schreiber, Gretchen,

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  Genetic Condition. Ellie, a high schooler with a rare genetic condition, 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 her consider the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Joined at the Joints

  Eller, Marissa,

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  Chronic Illness. When baking-obsessed Ivy meets a super-hot boy who shares her rare diagnosis, sparks fly outside of the kitchen for the first time in her life! Chronically ill seventeen-year-old Ivy has stayed in watching the Food Network all…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Loudest Silence

  Langford, Sydney,

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  Deafness; Hearing impairment. Anxiety. CASEY KOWALSKI once dreamed of becoming a professional singer. Then the universe threw her a life-altering curveball— sudden, permanent, and profound hearing loss. Now, she's learning to navigate the world as a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rules for Camouflage

  Cronn-Mills, Kirstin, 1968-

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  Autism. During her senior year of high school, neurodivergent Evvie navigates school, friendships, and her first love.

• Time and Time Again

  Greenfield, Chatham,

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  Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). Phoebe Mendel has been living the same day for a month. On August 6th she fell asleep with a stomachache and woke up to find the space-time continuum broken. Ever since, she's been stuck living the same sweltering…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tilly in Technicolor

  Eddings, Mazey,

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  ADHD. After struggling through high school because of the executive functioning issues that accompany her ADHD, Tilly is spending the summer in Europe interning at her older sister's company. Looming over the trip is her mom's declaration that Tilly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sixteen Souls

  Talbot, Rosie,

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  Physical/mobility disability. Ever since closeted 16-year-old Charlie Frith—who lost his legs to meningitis and uses prosthetics—was resuscitated after dying from a horrific ghost attack, he has been able to see and converse with the dead souls of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unseelie

  Housman, Ivelisse,

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  Neurodivergent/autism. Seelie looks just like her twin, but as an autistic changeling, she has always known she is different. Seelie's unpredictable magic makes it hard for her to fit in and draws the sisters into a hunt for a fabled treasure. In a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stars in Their Eyes

  Walton, Jessica,

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  Amputation. Maisie is on her way to Fancon! She's looking forward to meeting her idol, Kara Bufano, the action hero from her favorite TV show, who has a lower-leg amputation, just like Maisie. But when Maisie and her mom arrive at the convention…Read moreRead more of this annotation