Unbroken : : 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens

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Downtown Teen, 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Teen Fiction / Unbroken	4-week checkout	Due 05-23-2024

The long road / by Heidi Heilig -- Britt and the Bike God / by Kody Keplinger -- The leap and the fall / by Kayla Whaley -- Per aspera ad astra / by Katherine Locke -- Found objects / by William Alexander -- Plus One / by Karuna Riazi -- The day the dragon came / by Marieke Nijkamp -- Captain, my captain / by Francisco X. Stork -- Dear Norah James, you know nothing about love / by Dhonielle Clayton -- A play in many parts / by Fox Benwell -- Ballad of weary daughters / by Kristine Wyllys -- Mother Nature's youngest daughter / by Keah Brown -- A curse, a kindness / by Corinne Duyvis.
An anthology of stories in various genres, featuring disabled characters and written by disabled creators, ranging from established best selling authors to debut authors.
An anthology of stories in various genres, each featuring disabled characters and written by disabled creators. The collection includes stories of interstellar war, a journey to Persia, a dating debacle. The teenaged characters reflect diverse colors, genders, and orientations-- without obscuring the realities of their disabilities. -- adapted from jacket.

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Great variety of viewpoints and writing submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on July 27, 2023, 5:08am From the blurb: “Each author identifies as disabled along a physical, mental, or neurodiverse axis―and their characters reflect this diversity.” What I loved about this book is that yes, the stories reflect life with a disability, but in many of the stories, the disability wasn’t the point of the story. These were stories of teens living their lives (on a journey, with their families, in school, with friends, on a space station) and oh, yeah, they have a disability. It affected how they moved through the world, or how people saw them, or how they approached problems, but it wasn’t always the focus or the plot. And isn’t that life? But then other stories *were* about the disability, and how it was the central focus of their *right now,* because sometimes life is like that, too.

These were good stories, well written by good writers, giving interesting takes on so many creative ideas. I’m glad I spent the time with it.