Activists of YA discussion

here is a space where you can find recommendations and recommend books with disability representation.

my favorite book with disability rep is Out of My Mind

I highly recommend Wonder!

The Man Who Loved Clowns is really good!!

i know a lot of YA lovers have read it, but Six of Crows ‘s Kaz is technically a disabled character, as is Cinder ‘s Cinder. i have more recs but that’s all i can think of off the top of my head rn 😅

Is this just physical or does it include mental?

Real by carol cujec is really underrated

If you are looking for a manga/anime The Pet Girl of Sakurasou is good (The anime has a 96% so the Manga is probably just as good). Although the M.C. does not have a mental handicap, one of the main girls has Autism and is featured prominently

Ken (Confused) wrote: "Is this just physical or does it include mental?"

^ i was also wondering this !

I recommend those above ( out of my min and wonder )
I also recommend Your Welcome Universe by Whitney Gardener .

This is basically my favourite area to recommend books.

Ok so.

For decent blindness representation there's a few

Not if I See you First by Eric Lindstrom is really good. I have no idea why I haven't rated it on here because I have read it, and it's definitely worth reading. The main character is a complex, not always very nice, but quite realistic blind teen. I identified with a lot of her feelings.

The Window by Jeanette Ingold is one of the best representations of blindness I've read in fiction. It's not perfect, because the whole can see sometimes trope is used, but honestly it's still really good and I recommend it.

Run by Kody Keplinger is an ownvoices book with a blind character. It's actually not my favourite blindness rep but I still enjoyed it a lot, and gave it 5 stars because it's ownvoices.

In terms of other disability rep I also have a few:

Second Position by Katherine Locke is new adult so may not be for everyone here, but it is so, so good. Honestly it has amazing rep both for a character who is an amputee, but also mental health rep.

Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis has two disabled characters. One is mute and the other is an amputee. I read it ages ago but I remember really liking it.

Saffy's Angel is the first book in the Casson Family series. They're more MG than YA but they're so perfect. One of the characters is a wheelchair user and I honestly cried reading these books last year because the rep was so comforting and good. Also I loved reading these as a kid.

So there's a few.

Six of Crows