Schneider Family Book Awards honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.

Book cover of Forever is now
2024

Forever is Now

by Lockington, Mariama
Call Number: YA
Book cover for The Words We Keep
2023

The Words We Keep

by Stewart, Erin
Call Number: YA
Book cover for The Words in My Hands
2022

The Words in My Hands

by Asphyxia
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Book cover for This is My Brain in Love
2021

This is My Brain in Love

by Gregorio, I. W.
Call Number: YA
Book cover for Cursed
2020

Cursed

by Silverstein, Karol Ruth
Call Number: YA
Book cover for Anger is a Gift
2019

Anger is a Gift

by Oshiro, Mark.
Call Number: YA
Book cover for You're Welcome, Universe
2018

You're Welcome, Universe

by Gardner, Whitney
Call Number: YA

When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a 'mainstream' school in the suburbs, where she’s treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art. Julia paints anywhere she can, eager to claim some turf of her own. But Julia soon learns that she might not be the only vandal in town. Someone is adding to her tags, making them better, showing off—and showing Julia up in the process. She expected her art might get painted over by cops. But she never imagined getting dragged into a full-blown graffiti war.

Book cover for When We Collided
2017

When We Collided

by Lord, Emery
Call Number: YA
Book cover for The unlikely hero of room 13B
2016

The unlikely hero of room 13B

by Toten, Teresa, 1955-
Call Number: YA
Book cover for Girls Like Us
2015

Girls Like Us

by Giles, Gail
Call Number: YA
Book cover for Rose Under Fire
2014

Rose Under Fire

by Wein, Elizabeth
Call Number: YA

In this companion book to Code Name Verity, we follow the story of Rose, an 18-year-old American poet and pilot, who decides to join the war effort by joining the British ATA. Things take a turn for the worse when she is captured by the Germans and imprisoned at Ravensbruck concentration camp. Once again, Wein manages to beautifully tell a World War II story from an unusual perspective. This book is highly recommended to young adults and adults alike.

Book cover for Somebody Please Tell Me Who I Am
2013

Somebody Please Tell Me Who I Am

by Mazer, Harry
Call Number: YA
Book cover for The Running Dream
2012

The Running Dream

by Van Draanen, Wendelin
Call Number: YA

When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.

Book cover for Five Flavors of Dumb
2011

Five Flavors of Dumb

by John, Antony
Call Number: YA
Book cover for Marcelo in the real world
2010

Marcelo in the real world

by Stork, Francisco X.
Call Number: YA
Book cover for Jerk, California
2009

Jerk, California

by Friesen, Jonathan
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Book cover for Hurt Go Happy
2008

Hurt Go Happy

by Rorby, Ginny
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Book cover for Small Steps
2007

Small Steps

by Sachar, Louis
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Book cover for Under the wolf, under the dog
2006

Under the wolf, under the dog

by Rapp, Adam.
Call Number: YA
Book cover for My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir
2005

My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir

by Abeel, Samantha
Call Number: 371.9 A138

In seventh grade, the author suffered anxiety attacks as she struggled to keep up in her classes, to remember two locker combinations, and to deal with new teachers, both before and after she was diagnosed with dyscalculia, a math-related learning disability.

Book cover for Things Not Seen
2004

Things Not Seen

by Clements, Andrew
Call Number: SF