COMPULSION
by Heidi Ayarbe
Poised to lead his high school soccer team to its third straight state championship, seventeen-year-old star player Jake Martin struggles to keep hidden his nearly debilitating obsessive-compulsive disorder.

CRAZY BEAUTIFUL
by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
In this contemporary retelling of Beauty and the Beast, a teenaged boy whose hands were amputated in an explosion and a gorgeous girl whose mother has recently died form an instant connection when they meet on their first day as new students.

ANYTHING BUT TYPICAL
by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Jason, a twelve-year-old autistic boy who wants to become a writer, relates what his life is like as he tries to make sense of his world.

SHARK GIRL
by Kelly Bingham
After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future.

GOING BOVINE
by Libba Bray
Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen-year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (AKA mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.

WATER BABY
by Ross Campbell
Brody is an unstoppable surfer girl who gets her leg bitten off by a shark and is forced to deal with her new disability – not to mention a strange, shark-like transformation that may or may not be happening to her.

TOTAL CONSTANT ORDER
by Crissa-Jean Chappell
Resentful and upset when her family moves from Vermont to Miami, and her parents' fighting escalates, high schooler Fin develops OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) and becomes consumed with numbers, counting, irrational worrying, and avoiding germs.

THINGS THAT ARE
by Andrew Clements
Still adjusting to being blind, Alicia must outwit an invisible man who is putting her family and her boyfriend, who was once invisible himself, in danger.

THE WINTER WAR
by William Durbin
When Russian troops invade Finland during the winter of 1939-40, Marko, a young polio victim determined to keep his homeland free, joins the Finnish Army as a messenger boy.

OWNING IT: STORIES ABOUT TEENS WITH DISABILITIES
edited by Donald R. Gallo
Presents ten stories of teenagers facing all of the usual challenges of school, parents, boyfriends and girlfriends, plus the additional complications that come with having a physical or psychological disability.

THE ORANGE HOUSES
by Paul Griffin
Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his anti-psychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME
by Mark Haddon
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.

SHADOW WALKERS
by Brent Hartinger
Living with his grandparents on a tiny island off the Washington coast, Zach feels cut off from the world, but when his little brother, Gilbert, is kidnapped Zach and a new friend, Emory, seek him in the astral realm, where a centuries-old creature hungers for Zach's soul.

COMFORT
by Joyce Moyer Hostetter
In 1945 Hickory, North Carolina, Ann Fay's father is back from the war but she must still rely on her own strength and determination as she faces the problems of her polio-induced disability and her father's failure to get a job. Includes facts about the disability rights movement.

MY TIKI GIRL
by Jennifer McMahon
Fifteen-year-old Maggie, still grieving the loss of her mother in an accident that also gave her a limp, has turned her back on old friends but connects with a new student, Dahlia, who makes Maggie part of her unconventional family and plans their future together as roving musicians and lovers.

ANDROMEDA KLEIN
by Frank Portman
High school sophomore Andromeda, an outcast because she studies the occult and has a hearing impairment and other disabilities, overcomes terrible losses by enlisting others' help in her plan to save library books – and finds a kindred spirit along the way.

TOUCH
by Francine Prose
Ninth-grader Maisie's concepts of friendship, loyalty, self-acceptance and truth are tested to their limit after a school bus incident with the three boys who have been her best friends since early childhood.

THAW
by Monica M. Roe
Overcome by a physically paralyzing disease, high school senior and ski team standout Dane is hospitalized in Florida, a thousand miles from his home in upstate New York, where he tries to regain his physical abilities while letting go of the psychological disabilities that have haunted him for a lifetime.

HURT GO HAPPY
by Ginny Rorby
When thirteen-year-old Joey Willis, deaf since the age of six, meets Dr. Charles Mansell and his chimpanzee Sukari, who use sign language, her world blooms with possibilities but the world of the chimp begins to narrow.

EVERY CROOKED POT
by Renée Rosen
Nina Goldman, growing up in Akron, Ohio, in the 1970s, struggles to overcome the feelings of inferiority caused by the birth mark that covers one of her eyes but she is helped along by her loving mom and larger-than-life father, and when a treatment is found that could remove the mark, Nina is conflicted about whether to go forward.

SMALL STEPS
by Louis Sachar
Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along.

THE SEER
by David Stahler, Jr.
Raised in a futuristic frontier world colony where blindness is the genetically engineered hallmark of every citizen, thirteen-year-old Jacob is stricken with sight and must find his way to the city of the Seers, where he hopes to reconnect with a girl from his past.

MARCELO IN THE REAL WORLD
by Francisco X. Stork
Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.

THE RED THREAD: A NOVEL IN THREE INCARNATIONS
by Roderick Townley
Bothered by insomnia, nightmares and claustrophobia, sixteen-year-old Dana sees a therapist who hypnotizes her into remembering past lives, involving her in an age-old mystery and causing her to question what kind of person she is.

KAT GOT YOUR TONGUE
by Lee Weatherly
After being hit by a car, thirteen-year-old Kat wakes up in the hospital with no memory of her previous life.

FEATHERS
by Jacqueline Woodson
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.

LEAP
by Jane Breskin Zalben
In the midst of the usual teenaged angst over romantic relationships and figuring out their place in the world, childhood friends Kristin and Daniel reconnect when, in the sixth grade, Daniel is temporarily paralyzed.

REACHING FOR SUN
by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
Josie, who lives with her mother and grandmother and has cerebral palsy, befriends a boy who moves into one of the rich houses behind her old farmhouse.