Lexile HL580L; age 11-13; Gr 4-7.
After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mother takes him and his younger brother, who has Down syndrome, to Puerto Rico to visit relatives they do not remember or have never met, and while there Marcus starts searching for his father, who left their family ten years ago and is somewhere on the island.

Lexile measure 530; Ages 8-12; Gr.3-7; Mathical book award, 2019.
A lightning strike made Lucy, twelve, a math genius but, after years of homeschooling, her grandmother enrolls her in middle school and she learns that life is more than numbers.

Lexile measure 490; Ages 5-9; K-Gr.4; Schneider Family book award honor, 2019.
James's Grandpa has the best balloons because he has the best memories. He has balloons showing Dad when he was young and Grandma when they were married. Grandpa has balloons about camping and Aunt Nelle's poor cow. Grandpa also has a silver balloon filled with the memory of a fishing trip he and James took together. But when Grandpa's balloons begin to float away, James is heartbroken.

Lexile measure 810; Ages 8-12; Gr.4-6.
Jilly thinks she's figured out how life works. But when her sister, Emma, is born deaf, she realises how much she still has to learn. The world is going to treat Jilly, who is white and hearing, differently from Emma, just as it will treat them both differently from their Black cousins.

Gr.1-2.
A little girl uses rhyming verse to describe the unique traits of her autistic friend. Benny likes trains and cupcakes without sprinkles, but he can also be fussy sometimes.

Lexile measure 690; Ages 8-12; Gr.3-7; Newbery Award Winner, 2018.
Hello, Universe is a funny and poignant neighborhood story about unexpected friendships. Told from four intertwining points of view--two boys and two girls--the novel celebrates bravery, being different, and finding your inner bayani (hero).

AD460L; Ages 4-8; PrK-Gr.3.
For Zara's dog, Moose, nothing is more important than being with his favorite girl. So when Zara has to go to school,WHOOSH, Moose escapes and rushes to her side. Hello, Moose! Unfortunately, dogs aren't allowed at school and Moose has to go back home.

Gabrielle is excited when Grandmother presents her with tickets to see her first live ballet. When the day comes, the ballet is even more breathtaking than she expects, but the evening is soured when Grandmother behaves strangely among the post-theater crowd. Later, Gabrielle's mother explains that Grandmother has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.

Lexile measure 790; Ages 11-13; Gr.3-7.
James Castle was born two months premature on September 25, 1899, on a farm in Garden Valley, Idaho. He was deaf, mute, autistic, and probably dyslexic. He didn't walk until he was four; he would never learn to speak, write, read, or use sign language. Yet, today Castle's artwork hangs in major museums throughout the world.

Lexile measure 700L; ages 8-10.
Charlie's perfectly ordinary life has been unraveling ever since his war journalist father was injured in Afghanistan. When his father heads from California to Virginia for medical treatment, Charlie reluctantly travels cross-country with his boy-crazy sister, unruly brothers, and a mysterious new family friend. He decides that if he can spot all the birds that he and his father were hoping to see someday along the way, then everything might just turn out okay.

Ages 6-10.
Jack might be the only kid in the world who's dreading summer. But he's got a good reason: summer is when his single mom takes a second job and leaves him at home to watch his autistic kid sister, Maddy.

Lexile measure 590; Ages 5-8; Gr.1-4; Schneider family book award, 2017.
An inspiring picture-book biography of Louis Braille-a blind boy so determined to read that he invented his own alphabet.

Lexile measure 490; Ages 7-9.
Meet Myron: a third-grade detective who loves logic, facts and solving mysteries. He does not love new things. Unfortunately, everything is new this year: Myron has a new baby sister, his family has moved across town, and now he's starting his first day at a new school. But when the school kitchen is burgled, leaving the morning snacks nowhere to be found, Myron gets his chance to crack the case with help from his classmates from Resource Room 15. Myron's unique perspective from the autism spectrum makes him a top-notch sleuth.

Lexile measure AD770L; Ages 5-9.
Born in Ghana, West Africa, with one deformed leg, he was dismissed by most people-but not by his mother, who taught him to reach for his dreams. As a boy, Emmanuel hopped to school more than two miles each way, learned to play soccer, left home at age thirteen to provide for his family, and eventually, became a cyclist.

Lexile measure 420; Ages 8-12; Gr.3-6.
El Deafo is a funny, deeply honest graphic novel memoir for middle graders. It chronicles the author's hearing loss at a young age and her subsequent experiences with a powerful and very awkward hearing aid called the Phonic Ear.

Lexile measure 720; Ages 9-12; Gr.4-7.
Rose Howard is obsessed with homonyms. She's thrilled that her own name is a homonym, and she purposely gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein), which, according to Rose's rules of homonyms, is very special. Not everyone understands Rose's obsessions, her rules, and the other things that make her different - not her teachers, not other kids, and not her single father.

Lexile measure 940; Ages 10-14; Gr.4-7.
An 11-year-old boy living in Memphis in 1959 throws the meanest fastball in town, but talking is a whole different ball game. He can barely say a word without stuttering, not even his own name. So when he takes over his best friend's paper route for the month of July, he knows he'll be forced to communicate with the different customers...

Lexile measure 800; Ages 4-7, gr. PreK-2.
It's the principal Mr. Slipper's birthday, and while the rest of the class gets busy writing cards for the occasion, Stan becomes frustrated when his letters come out all in a muddle. Stan is afraid to ask for help, until a friend assures him that nobody's good at everything.

Lexile measure 630; Ages 11 and up; Book level 3.6; Gr. 4-7.
In Caitlin's world, everything is black or white. Things are good or bad. Anything in between is confusing. That's the stuff Caitlin's older brother, Devon, has always explained. But now Devon's dead and Dad is no help at all. Caitlin wants to get over it, but as an eleven-year-old girl with Asperger's, she doesn't know how.

Lexile measure 800, ages 10-14; book level 5.1; Gr. 4-6.
Writing poetry helps fifth-grader Harper Lee Morgan cope with her father's absence, being evicted, and having to skip school to care for her brother while their mother works, and things look even brighter after she befriends a mute girl and a kindly disabled woman.

Ages 4-8.
Katie is keen observer and a curious third grader. So when her dad explains why he finds spelling difficult, Katie wants to investigate. She learns that her very intelligent dad, a lawyer, has dyslexia probably like a couple of Katie's classmates.

Ages 4-8.
David's teacher asks for a parent conference when David's behavior distracts the rest of the class. David, however, comes up with his own wiggle fidget cures that he shares at the meeting, combining creativity and practicality that just may help others with the wiggle fidgets.

Ages 4-10; book level 5.1, gr. K-2.
True story of five little girls with cerebral palsy or other physical disabilities who were determined to become ballerinas.

Guided Reading Level N; Lexile measure 560; Ages 6-9; Book level 3.8
After Ruby Lu's deaf cousin, Flying Duck, and her parents come from China to live with her, Ruby finds life challenging as she adjusts to her new family, tries to mend her rocky relationship with her friend Emma, and faces various adventures in summer school.

Guided Reading Level R; Lexile measure 780; Ages 9-12; Book level 3.9
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.

Book level 2.4; Ages 6-8, gr. K-3.
A sparkling story of friendship and self-empowerment that features a little boy in a wheelchair who is given a special pet by his father. Full color.

Guided Reading Level P; Lexile measure 880; Ages 5-10; Grade level 4.7;
A biography of Clayton Peg Leg Bates, an African-American man who lost a leg at the age of twelve, yet went on to become a world-renowned tap dancer.

Guided Reading Level R; Lexile measure 810; Ages 8-15; Grade level 4.5
With the help of her wise old grandmother, twelve-year-old Rosie manages to work out some problems in her relationship with her best friend, Bailey, the boy next door.

Guided Reading Level O; Lexile measure 700; Ages 4-9; Grade level 3.5
A blind boy tells of his warm relationship with his grandmother and the gift she left for him after her death.

Guided Reading Level: M; Lexile measure 570; Ages 5-10; Grade level 3.3
What is the response when a child points out that a disabled child or adult looks 'different'? Shriver tells the story of Kate, who finds that making friends with a mentally retarded boy helps her learn that the two of them have a lot in common.

Ages 6-9; Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature Winner, 1997.
Dora learns to overcome her fears of a mentally ill woman who lives in her community in this gentle and compassionate story set in contemporary Jamaica, West Indies.

Guided Reading Level: F; Lexile measure 750; Ages 2-6
Mama's "zooming machine" turns out to be her wheelchair.

Guided Reading Level: M; Lexile measure 480; ages 4-8; book level 2.8
In this poignant story, the counting rope is a metaphor for the passage of time and for a boy's emerging confidence in facing his blindness.