Accidents of Nature
10 best books like Accidents of Nature (Harriet McBryde Johnson): Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence, Scars Tell Stories: A Queer and Trans (Dis)ability Zine, Alphabet of Dreams, Samurai Shortstop, A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life, The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability: For All of Us Who Live with Disabilities, Chronic Pain, and Illness, With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child, Autobiography of My Dead Brother, Walking with Ghosts: Poems, Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence
| Author | John Hockenberry |
| ISBN | 0786881623 |
John Hockenberry's Moving Violations is one of the most entertaining, provocative, unexpected, outspoken, and occasionally outrageous books in recent memory. It is a story of obstacles--physical, emotional, and psychic--overcome again, and again, and again. Whether riding a mule up a hillside...
| Author | Colin Kennedy Donovan |
Through poetry, art, and essays, this zine tells our stories—funny, sexy, and complex—as a radical act of resistance, and prioritizes the work of trans people and people of color working for radical social change.
Featuring artwork, poetry, and essays by Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Sarain...
| Author | Susan Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0689850425 |
Mitra and her little brother, Babak, are beggars in the city of Rhagae, scratching out a living as best as they can with what they can beg for--or steal. But Mitra burns with hope and ambition, for she and Babak are not what they seem. They are of royal blood, but their father's ill-fated plot against the...
| Author | Alan Gratz |
| ISBN | 0803730756 |
Tokyo, 1890. Toyo is caught up in the competitive world of boarding school, and must prove himself to make the team in a new sport called besuboru. But he grieves for his uncle, a samurai who sacrificed himself for his beliefs, at a time when most of Japan is eager to shed ancient traditions. It’s only...
| Author | Dana Reinhardt |
| ISBN | 0385746989 |
Simone’s starting her junior year in high school. Her mom’s a lawyer for the ACLU, her dad’s a political cartoonist, so she’s grown up standing outside the organic food coop asking people to sign petitions for worthy causes. She’s got a terrific younger brother and amazing friends. And she’s...
The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability: For All of Us Who Live with Disabilities, Chronic Pain, and Illness
| Author | Miriam Kaufman |
| ISBN | 1573441767 |
The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability is a long-overdue self-help sex guide for the millions of people living with disabilities and chronic pain and illness. For sufferers of ailments from chronic fatigue syndrome and spinal cord injury to multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, and others, the book...
| Author | Keiko Tobe |
| ISBN | 0759523843 |
A little effort goes a long way-that's what Sachiko, Honda-san, and Gunji-sensei learn as they struggle to work together to make life easier for the Special Education children. With the help of gadgets and the support of more people in their environment than meets the eye, Hikaru and Miyu become able...
| Author | Walter Dean Myers |
| ISBN | 0060582936 |
Printz Award winner Walter Dean Myers has written a realistic urban novel that probes a fatal crisis in the life of two boys. Jesse, the book's narrator, and Rise are best friends, but as time passes, Rise grows increasingly alienated and unpredictable. Living in a neighborhood where gang fights and...
| Author | Qwo-Li Driskill |
| ISBN | 1844711137 |
This is a book of strong poems, it brings the reader through many emotions: anger, love, fear, sadness. He uses his words to educate, mourn, heal and take back power. He gives us his native language and traditions.
My favorite poem is his long one written after Reagan's death, "Eulogy for the...
| Author | Robert McRuer |
| ISBN | 0814757138 |
Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze...
My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities
| Author | Yantra Bertelli |
| ISBN | 1604861096 |
The stories in this collection provide parents of special needs kids with a dose of both laughter and reality. Featuring works by so-called alternative parents who have attempted to move away from mainstream thought, this anthology carefully considers the implications of raising children with...
“I’m so tired of feeling sad. And waiting for other people to make me happy and they don’t. And if no-one else is going to make you happy, well maybe you just have to do it for yourself?”
Fourteen year old Georgie Harris feels as if the summer holidays are over before they have even begun....
How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms
| Author | Carol Ann Tomlinson |
| ISBN | 0871205122 |
In this 2nd edition of a book that has provided inspiration to countless teachers, Carol Ann Tomlinson offers three new chapters, extended examples and information in every chapter, and field-tested strategies that teachers can use in today's increasingly diverse classrooms. Tomlinson shows...
Can I tell you about Asperger Syndrome?: A guide for friends and family
| Author | Jude Welton |
| ISBN | 1843102064 |
Meet Adam - a young boy with AS. Adam invites young readers to learn about AS from his perspective. He helps children understand the difficulties faced by a child with AS - he tells them what AS is, what it feels like to have AS and how they can help children with AS by understanding their differences and appreciating...
Elijah's Cup: A Family's Journey into the Community and Culture of High-functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome (Revised edition)
This provocative and pioneering book is both a refreshing exploration of the history of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and a powerful story of the author's own struggle with her son Elijah's Asperger's Syndrome.
From her first inklings of Elijah's difference to her discovery of a whole...
Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment
| Author | James I. Charlton |
| ISBN | 0520224817 |
James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities....
| Author | Jill Hucklesby |
| ISBN | 1846163420 |
Meet Amy. She thinks that being thirteen and the fastest freestyle swimmer in the county is cool. She thinks that best friends will always be there no matter what, She believes that strawberry smoothies are the closest thing to heaven.
When her life takes a dramatic tumble turn one day, Amy doesn't...
A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World
| Author | Susanne Antonetta |
| ISBN | 1585423823 |
In A Mind Apart, Susanne Antonetta draws on her personal experience with manic depression, as well as interviews with people with multiple personality disorder, autism, schizophrenia, and other "neuroatypical" conditions, to construct a fascinating portrait of how the world shapes itself in...
Asperger's From the Inside Out: A Supportive and Practical Guide for Anyone with Asperger's Syndrome
| Author | Michael John Carley |
| ISBN | 0399533974 |
An intimate, engaging, and insightful guide to coping with Asperger's-from one of the condition's most passionate advocates.
Michael John Carley was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome at thirty-six-when his young son received the same diagnosis. This fascinating book reveals his personal...
Lottie Biggs is (not) Mad
| Author | Hayley Long |
| ISBN | 0330479733 |
"My name is Lottie Biggs and in three weeks time, I will be fifteen years old. At school, most people call me Lottie Not-Very-Biggs. I've never found this particularly funny . . . My current hair colour is Melody Deep Plum which is not as nice as Melody Forest Flame but definitely better than the dodgy custard...
Finally, Graham's many U. S. fans can laugh at—and benefit from—his drily hilarious Daily Telegraph advice columns
"Remember that sleeping with friends is lazy and selfish: we don't cook our pets just because we're hungry and they're sitting right by the oven." —Graham...
My Body Politic: A Memoir
| Author | Simi Linton |
| ISBN | 0472032364 |
While hitchhiking from Boston to Washington, D.C., in 1971 to protest the war in Vietnam, Simi Linton was involved in a car accident that paralyzed her legs and took the lives of her young husband and her best friend. Her memoir begins with her struggle to regain physical and emotional strength and to...
The Survival Guide for Kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders (And Their Parents)
| Author | Elizabeth Verdick |
| ISBN | 1575423855 |
This positive, straightforward book offers kids with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) their own comprehensive resource for both understanding their condition and finding tools to cope with the challenges they face every day.
Some children with ASD are gifted; others struggle academically....
The Mind Tree: A Miraculous Child Breaks The Silence Of Autism
| Author | Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay |
| ISBN | 1559706996 |
Once in a great while, a special person emerges in the history of science and medicine whose unique set of characteristics sheds light on an entire disorder and sometimes even on the mysteries of the human brain. Tito is such a person. Although he is severely autistic and nearly nonverbal, his ability...
Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability
| Author | Paul K. Longmore |
| ISBN | 1592130240 |
This wide-ranging book shows why Paul Longmore is one of the most respected figures in disability studies today. Understanding disability as a major variety of human experience, he urges us to establish it as a category of social, political, and historical analysis in much the same way that race, gender,...
