During Disability Pride Month, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is committed to highlighting and celebrating the diverse experiences and contributions of individuals with disabilities. We recognize this month as an opportunity to raise awareness, promote acceptance, and advocate for the rights of people with disabilities.
Throughout July, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh will amplify the identities of those with visible and invisible disabilities. Check out the titles for kids in middle grades on this list or find displays in your neighborhood libraries to discover more options!
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Twelve-and-a-half-year-old Emelyn Ethrige lives with her father in South Carolina, dreams of wheelchair motocross, and makes custom chair bags trying to earn enough money to buy a serious set of wheels.
This title is also available for checkout in eAudio on Libby and in eAudio on Hoopla.
Follows the summer adventures of Ellie, a ten-year-old girl with Down syndrome who fears that her fifteen-year-old brother might be getting married and that her favorite tree is in danger of dying.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Hoopla.
Follows thirteen-year-old neurodivergent Maudie during an eventful summer in California with her father, where she struggles with whether to share a terrible secret about life with her mom and stepdad.
This title is also available for checkout as an eAudio on Libby, and as an eBook and eAudio on Hoopla.
Tess Medina is dealing with the loss of her beloved father, a new school, and the troubling fact that the thing she enjoys most in life, baking, seems to be making her increasingly ill–something she is trying to hide from everybody.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby, in eAudio on Libby, and in eAudio on Hoopla.
When twelve-year-old Olive, who suffers from brittle bone disease and has been homeschooled all her life, finally attends school in person, she discovers that fitting in is not that easy. But if she can find the magical wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives nearby and prove herself worthy, maybe her deepest wish will be granted.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Hoopla.
Armed with nothing but a Ren Faire sword and a backpack, Jerry and her friends venture into the forbidden woods to save Jerry’s mother. But the ‘demons’ hiding there aren’t what they seem, and Jerry must unravel the truth behind the town’s legend, or risk losing what’s left of her family
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby, eBook on Hoopla, in eAudio on Libby, in eAudio on Hoopla.
The reclusive Lady Whimsy plans to stop an old rival from uncovering the truth of a disappearance and her blind niece Safia finds herself experiencing an adventure and parts of the world she had only dreamed about.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby.
The unexpected appearance of a dolphin in her backyard creek helps a sixth-grader with cystic fibrosis learn to write her own story.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby, eBook on Hoopla, in eAudio on Hoopla.
Twelve-year-old African American Opal investigates the disturbances in her apartment building that are interfering with the vital renovations.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Libby.
Chosen to be a U.S. spokesperson at an international symposium for kids with different abilities, Melody arrives in London where she meets like-minded kids who want to make the world more equal, no matter the unusual challenges they face, and hopes her words can make an impact.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Libby.
Bay Ann is sure her tap dance will shine at the school talent show, but when her crush, Alyee Maq, catches her before she falls (which was his fault anyway) and gets all the “fame” she is determined to beat him at his own attention-seeking game.