Recs if you like The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn...
Disability in Kidlit (YA, middle grade, children)
Winners and honorees of the American Library Association’s Schneider Family Book Award: https://www.ala.org/awards/books-media/schneider-family-book-award. The award honors “an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.”
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YA books with autism rep!!!!
YA fiction books with prominent autistic characters!!!! (all cannon, in text, or confirmed by author)
Autistic Reps You Wish You Had as a Kid
Mostly children, middle grade, and ya books with autism representation. Strongly featuring autistic characters that aren’t only young white boys. It’s also strongly concentrated on own voices works, as much as possible, although that’s private information if the authors do not choose want to share publicly.
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