July is Disability Pride Month! This annual observance is used to promote visibility and mainstream awareness of the positive pride felt by people with disabilities by celebrating disability culture and the unique experiences of people with differing abilities and the contributions that they offer society. We've compiled a booklist for all ages featuring stories with disabled characters.

To learn more, visit ameridisability.com/how-to-display-disability-pride

Children's Picture Books

Best Buddies by Lynn Plourde

Best Day Ever! by Marilyn Singer

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: The Courage to Dream by Frederick Joseph

Cesaria Feels the Beat by Denise Rosario Adusei

I Will Dance by Bo Flood

Jayden’s Impossible Garden by Melina Mangal

Like Me: A Story About Disability and Discovering God’s Image in Every Person by Laura Wifler

A Little Like Magic by Sarah Kurpiel

Logan’s Greenhouse by JaNay Brown-Wood

Monster Hands by Karen Kane

My City Speaks by Darren Lebeuf

My Ocean is Blue by Darren Lebeuf

Obioma Plays Football by Chika Unigwe

Thukpa for All by Ram Praba

This is How We Play: A Celebration of Disability and Adaptation by Jessica Slice

Woodpecker Girl by Chingyen Liu

You’re So Amazing! by James Catchpole

Children's and Preteen Chapter Books

Air by Monica Roe

Aniana del Mar Jumps In by Jasminne Mendez

Brave Like That by Lindsey Stoddard

Cut Loose! by Ali Stroker

Deer Run Home by Ann Clare LeZotte

Farther Than the Moon by Lindsay Lackey

The Fire Keeper by JC Cervantes

The Good Hawk by Joseph Elliott

Hummingbird by Natalie Lloyd

Louder Than Hunger by John Schu

Lumbering Giants of Windy Pines by Mo Nertz

Meranda and the Legend of the Lake by Megan Mahoney

Out of My Heart by Sharon Draper

Out of My Dreams by Sharon Draper

Popcorn by Rob Harrell

Red Bird Danced by Dawn Quigley

Sail Me Away Home by Ann Clare LeZotte

Set Me Free by Ann Clare LeZotte

Shark Teeth by Sherri Winston

The Shadow Crosser by JC Cervantes

Splinter & Ash by Marieke Nijkamp

Time to Roll by Jamie Sumner

Very Bad at Math by Hope Larsen

Children’s Nonfiction

Disabilities and Relationships by Nicole Evans

Disability Etiquette by Nicole Evans

Disability and the Media by Nicole Evans

Disability Pride by Erin Hawley

Not So Different: What You Really Want to Ask About Having a Disability by Shane Burcaw

Service Dogs by Jessica Coupé

Sports of the Paralympic Games by Aaron Derr

Tenacious: Fifteen Adventures Alongside Disabled Athletes by Patty Cisneros Prevo

Tuesday Tucks Me In: The Loyal Bond Between a Soldier and His Service Dog by Luis Carlos Montalván

We Want to Go to School!: The Fight for Disability Rights by Maryann Cocca-Leffler

What is Disability? by Erin Hawley

Teen and Young Adult Fiction

100 Days of Sunlight by Abbie Emmons

At the Speed of Lies by Cindy L Otis

Bones of a Saint by Grant Farley

Chronically Dolores by Maya Van Wagenen

Conditions of a Heart by Bethany Mangle

Hurt You by Marie Myung-Ok Lee

Just Breathe by Cammie McGovern

Light Enough to Float by Lauren Seal

The Loudest Silence by Sydney Langford

Love Letters for Joy by Melissa See

No True Believers by Rabiah York Lumbard

On the Bright Side by Anna Sortino

Prom Theory by Ann LaBar

The Reckless Kind by Carly Heath

A Secret Princess by Margaret Stohl

The Storm Runner by JC Cervantes

Sunrise Nights by Jeff Zentner

The Theft of Sunlight by Intisar Khanani

This Is Not a Love Scene by SC Megale

Time and Time Again by Chatham Greenfield

We Are Inevitable by Gayle Forman

Where You See Yourself by Claire Forrest

The Whispering Dark by Kelly Andrew

Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas

Adult Fiction

The Color of Family by Jerry McGill

Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

Deer Season by Erin Flanagan

Godkiller by Hannah Kaner

Greek Lessons by Han Kang

How to Dance by Jason B Dutton

How Lucky by Will Leitch

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones

Hunchback by Saō Ichikawa

Kantika by Elizabeth Graver

The Lightkeeper’s Daughter by Jen Pendziwol

The Lost Girls of Willowbrook by Ellen Marie Wiseman

Murder Under Her Skin by Stephen Spotswood

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman

Adult Nonfiction

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew

All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship by Jennifer Natalya Fink

The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive World by Tiffany Yu

Autism & Education: The Way I See It: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know by Dr. Temple Grandin

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally by Emily Ladau

Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire edited by Alice Wong

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong 

The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom by Johanna Hedva

A Quick and Easy Guide to Sex and Disability by A. Andrews