Book Awards Mentioned
- Schneider Family Book Award (disability)
- Printz Award (literature for young adults)
- Alex Awards (adult books)
- National Book Award (F, NF, Poetry, Young People)
- Coretta Scott King Book Award (African American)
- Pura Belpré Award (Latino)
- Stonewall Book Award (GLBT)
- Rainbow Book List (GLBTQ)
Going Mental.
- It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
- My Abandonment by Peter Rock
- Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King
True Story.
- The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Yeah, I’m different.
- Stupid Fast by Geoff Herbach
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
What color? Human.
- Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
- Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon
- Tyrell by Coe Booth
- Gardens of Water by Alan Drew
- In Darkness by Nick Lake
- The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
- Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris
- Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
I am not my disorder.
- Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas
- Wonder by R.J. Palacio
- Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John
Love is love.
- Donorboy by Brendan Halpin
- Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
- Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
- Hero by Perry Moore
- Luna by Julie Anne Peters
- Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher
Back then.
- The Night Birds by Thomas Maltman
- The Wicked and the Just by J. Anderson Coats
- Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
I’m sick. So what?
- Stitches: a Memoir by David Small
- The Fault in our Stars by John Green
I fight.
- The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
- War by Sebastian Junger
- A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
- Refresh, Refresh by Danica Novgorodoff
I’m a person, too!
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein