Schneider Family Book Award
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The 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.
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Where You See Yourself
2024 - Honor(s) Where You See Yourself combines an unforgettable coming-of-age tale, a riveting romance, and much-needed disability representation in this story about Effie, a girl who's determined... |
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The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn
2024 - Winner(s) Maudie, a neurodivergent young woman, loves spending summers with her dad in California. When a wildfire forces an evacuation, they move to a trailer on... |
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Simon Sort of Says
2024 - Honor(s) Simon O’Keeffe’s biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a holy sacrament. But the story the whole world... |
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Tilly in Technicolor
2024 - Honor(s) Tilly Twomley is desperate for change. She feels like she's white-knuckling her way through high school as flawed executive functioning has left her burnt out. Things... |
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Forever is Now
2024 - Winner(s) Sadie is an Oakland, California activist who shares her passion for social justice online. After witnessing a violent incident of police brutality, her chronic anxiety... |
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Good Different
2024 - Honor(s) A extraordinary novel-in-verse about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate her difference. In this dynamic novel, Selah navigates the challenges of day-to-day... |
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Henry, Like Always
2024 - Winner(s) Share Time happens on Fridays in Ms. Tanaka’s class. When it is displaced by a special parade and moved to Thursday, Henry, who is autistic... |
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What Happened to You?
2024 - Honor(s) Every time Joe goes out the questions are the same . . . what happened to his leg? But is this even a question Joe... |
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Dancing Hands
2024 - Honor(s) This picture book about friendship and sign language, originally published in the Philippines in concert with nonprofit Room to Read, is revised for this global... |
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Hummingbird
2023 - Honor(s) a heartfelt story about a girl who -- armed with her trusty, snazzy wheelchair -- refuses to let her brittle bone disease stand in the... |
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Honestly Elliott
2023 - Honor(s) Gillian McDunn explores boyhood in a funny, big-hearted story about a kid trying to find the best way to be his best self. Elliott has been struggling since... |
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Breathe and Count Back From Ten
2023 - Honor(s) In this gorgeously written and authentic novel, Verónica, a Peruvian-American teen with hip dysplasia, auditions to become a mermaid at a Central Florida theme park... |
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Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion
2023 - Winner(s) As a child, Evelyn Glennie loved music. After the nerves in her ears began to degenerate, she became deaf. Defying doctors’ predictions, Evelyn persevered to... |
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In the Blue
2023 - Honor(s) An emotional and tender award-winning picture book that accessibly explores depression within a family, through the use of color. As one father embarks on... |
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WILDOAK
2023 - Winner(s) Maggie’s parents send her to her grandfather’s home in hopes that the Cornish countryside will improve her stuttering. There, she finds and saves an abandoned... |
2023 - Winner(s) |
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Words in my Hands
2022 - Winner(s) In this work of speculative fiction, Piper searches for her identity as a Deaf teenager through her art and activism in a futuristic Australia rife... |
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My City Speaks
2022 - Winner(s) Photographer Darren Lebeuf and paper artist Ashley Barron collaborate on the tale of a girl with a visual impairment and her father as they journey... |
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A Walk in the Words
2022 - Honor(s) An ode to persistence and determination, this inspiring autobiographical picture book recounts the author’s struggles and triumphs in learning to read. Drawing came easily to... |
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A Sky-Blue Bench
2022 - Honor(s) Set in Afghanistan, this brightly illustrated picture book shows readers the power of determination and cooperation. Living with war has impacted many aspects of Aria’s... |
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A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome
2022 - Winner(s) Ariel and her identical sister were born with a rare condition called Crouzon Syndrome, a disorder preventing the typical growth of the skull, affecting the... |
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A Kind of Spark
2022 - Honor(s) Addie is Autistic. She explains to people that it is who she is. Being neurodivergent, she often hears and feels things more deeply than most... |
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Stuntboy, in the Meantime
2022 - Honor(s) Portico Reeves is dealing with a lot in his life - his parents’ impending divorce, his own anxiety, and middle school friendships. But never fear... |
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A Bird Will Soar
2022 - Winner(s) Myers employs poetry and science to create a bird-loving autistic boy whose disability strongly shapes his identity. As Axel seeks to help heal his broken... |
2022 - Winner(s) |
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All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for American with Disabilities Changed Everything
2021 - Honor(s) Experience the true story of lifelong activist Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins and her participation in the Capitol Crawl in this inspiring autobiographical picture book. |
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Itzhak: A Boy Who Loved the Violin
2021 - Honor(s) This picture-book biography of violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman will inspire young readers to follow the melody within themselves |
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This is My Brain in Love
2021 - Winner(s) Told in dual narrative, I.W. Gregorio’s second YA novel is an own voices story exploring mental illness stigma, race and culture, and relationships. Jocelyn... |
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Get A Grip Vivy Cohen
2021 - Honor(s) In this perfectly pitched novel-in-letters, autistic eleven-year-old Vivy Cohen won't let anything stop her from playing baseball--not when she has a major-league star as... |
2021 - Honor(s) | |
When Stars are Scattered
2021 - Honor(s) Heartbreak, hope, and gentle humor exist together in this graphic novel about a childhood spent waiting, and a young man who is able to create... |
2021 - Honor(s) | |
Show Me A Sign
2021 - Winner(s) Ann Clare LeZotte, a Deaf librarian and author, tells the story of Mary Lambert, a young deaf girl growing up on the island of Martha’s... |
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I Talk Like A River
2021 - Winner(s) Jordan Scott, poet and debut picture book author, and award-winning illustrator Sydney Smith tell an own voices story of a young boy who feels isolated... |
2021 - Winner(s) |
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Each Tiny Spark
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The Silence Between Us
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A Friend for Henry
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Song For A Whale
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Cursed
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Just Ask
2020 - Winner(s) In Just Ask, United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor celebrates the different abilities kids (and people of all ages) have. Using her own experience as... |
2020 - Winner(s) |
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(Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health
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The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
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The Collectors
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Rescue & Jessica A Life-Changing Friendship
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The Remember Balloons
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Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess
2018 - Winner(s) This tender, free-verse novel welcomes readers into sixth-grader Macy’s world. Through an intergenerational relationship with her neighbor, Iris, Macy learns to navigate friendships, family changes... |
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Silent Days, Silent Dreams
2018 - Winner(s) Allen Say’s distinctive biographical picture book spotlights the work and life of James Castle, an outsider artist. Deaf and autistic, this artist used his untraditional... |
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You’re Welcome, Universe
2018 - Winner(s) Julia is an artist; her medium graffiti. She thrives on the thrill of creating and the risk of getting caught. When she is expelled from... |
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When We Collided
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as brave as you
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Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille
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Emmanuel
2016 - Winner(s) Against almost insurmountable odds, Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, born with only one strong leg, sets out to ride a bike 400 miles across Ghana to raise... |
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Fish
2016 - Winner(s) Ally moves through multiple elementary schools without learning to read by using her strengths in math and art along with some behavior distractions. When a... |
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War
2016 - Winner(s) Set during World War II, Ada is a resourceful character who slowly and believably makes accommodations for her untreated club foot. Her growth as a... |
2016 - Winner(s) | |
unlikely
2016 - Winner(s) Enter 13B, where the support group for young adults with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder meets each week. Here an unlikely band of “superheroes” led by their... |
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RAIN REIGN
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Girls Like Us
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A BOY AND A JAGUAR
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Handbook for Dragon Slayers
2014 - Winner(s) Reluctant Princess Tilda, sheltered due to her deformed foot, longs to escape her destiny. A thwarted kidnapping sends Tilda, Lord Parzifal and her handmaiden Judith... |
2014 - Winner(s) | |
Splash of Red
2014 - Winner(s) This picture book biography of self-taught African American folk artist Horace Pippin demonstrates the dogged determination of a wounded soldier to paint again. After a... |
2014 - Winner(s) | |
Rose under fire
2014 - Winner(s) After a daring flight maneuver, young pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women’s concentration camp. Assigned to a... |
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Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am
2013 - Winner(s) Ben surprises everyone by enlisting in the army after his high school graduation. When his convoy is caught in an IED explosion, Ben suffers a... |
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A Dog Called Homeless
2013 - Winner(s) A year after her mother’s death, Cally, a fifth grader, has stopped speaking when no one seems to care about what she has to say. ... |
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Back to Front and Upside Down!
2013 - Winner(s) Stan is excited about making a birthday card for his principal, Mr. Slippers, until he discovers that he has to write a message. For him... |
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close to famous
2012 - Winner(s) Twelve-year-old Foster dreams of growing up to become a famous celebrity chef despite her reading disability. Can the quirky townsfolk of tiny Culpepper help Foster... |
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Wonderstruck: A Novel in Words and Pictures
2012 - Winner(s) Rose and Ben are children who are deaf living 50 years and worlds apart, yet both marvel and connect with the world around them. The... |
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The Running Dream
2012 - Winner(s) When sixteen-year-old track star Jessica loses her leg in an accident, she is devastated believing she will never run again. Rehabilitation forces Jessica to... |
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The Pirate of Kindergarten
2011 - Winner(s) Ginny’s eyes play tricks and, in her world, there are two of everything. Reading, math, and kindergarten activities are a challenge. Wearing an eye patch... |
2011 - Winner(s) | |
After Ever After
2011 - Winner(s) Tells the story of Jeffrey who is free of cancer, but not the fallout from the treatment. Tad, his cancer survivor buddy and he swap... |
2011 - Winner(s) | |
Five Flavors of Dumb
2011 - Winner(s) Dumb is not the name Piper, a high school senior who is Deaf, would have chosen for a heavy metal band, yet she volunteers to... |
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Marcelo in the Real World
2010 - Winner(s) “Marcelo in the Real World” tells the story of Marcelo Sandoval who has Asperger Syndrome. Marcelo is pushed beyond his comfort zone when he is... |
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Django
2010 - Winner(s) “Django” is the biography of musician Django Reinhardt, who was in an accident that severely burned his hands and threatened to end his career. Through... |
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Anything but Typical
2010 - Winner(s) While Jason Blake who has autism, considers himself to be anything but typical, his life is that of a conventional 12-year-old boy. He wants a... |
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Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum
2009 - Winner(s) Jazz musician Art Tatum, who was born with limited vision and lost much of it as he grew, never felt sorry for himself. In this... |
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Waiting for Normal
2009 - Winner(s) Addie has spent most of her twelve years “waiting for normal,” a stable family and a real home. Connor’s resilient heroine uses humor, creativity and... |
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Jerk, California
2009 - Winner(s) After graduating from high school, Sam/Jack begins a cross country quest to learn the truth about his dead father and embraces his inherited Tourette Syndrome... |
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Kami and the Yaks
2008 - Winner(s) Kami, a young Sherpa boy who is deaf, rescues his family’s yaks and livelihood during a violent storm. Stunning, realistic watercolors add depth to a... |
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Reaching for Sun
2008 - Winner(s) Zimmer uses lyrical free verse to tell the story of one girl’s thirteenth year. Josie, a young teen with cerebral palsy, blossoms through her relationship... |
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Hurt Go Happy
2008 - Winner(s) Initially isolated by her mother’s refusal to let her learn American Sign Language (ASL), Joey grows from a lonely teen to a mature animal rights... |
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The Deaf Musicians
2007 - Winner(s) After losing his hearing, jazzman Lee learns to make music in a new way. The book’s upbeat narrative, along with its bright colors, teaches the... |
2007 - Winner(s) | |
Rules
2007 - Winner(s) A realistic depiction of 12-year-old Catherine’s quest to find her place in a family consumed by her autistic brother David’s needs. Catherine copes by developing... |
2007 - Winner(s) | |
Small Steps
2007 - Winner(s) Armpit’s humorous adventures portray the unexpected friendship between a recently released juvenile delinquent and 10-year-old Ginny, who has cerebral palsy, as they help each other... |
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Dad, Jackie, and Me
2006 - Winner(s) This exceptional portrayal of a young boy's affectionate relationship with his deaf father hits home when his dad identifies with baseball player Jackie Robinson and... |
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Tending to Grace
2006 - Winner(s) Cornelia “Corny” Thornhill, a self-described bookworm who stutters, is judged to be a poor student because of her reluctance to speak or read aloud. During... |
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Under the Wolf, Under the Dog
2006 - Winner(s) This compelling narrative of journal entries by a 16-year-old boy immerses the reader into his deteriorating mental state. Unable to cope with his mother's death... |
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Becoming Naomi León
2005 - Winner(s) Ryan uses imaginative language and great sensitivity in portraying an 11-year-old girl’s emergence from the timidity of an emotionally abusive relationship to becoming a lioness... |
2005 - Winner(s) | |
My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir
2005 - Winner(s) The book was chosen for its honest and sensitive portrayal of the author’s youth as she struggles with dyscalculia, a learning disability in mathematics. The... |
2005 - Winner(s) | |
My Pal Victor/Mi amigo, Victor
2005 - Winner(s) The bilingual text and bold, colorful illustrations weave the story of two Latino boys who share the joys of friendship—telling scary stories and outrageous riddles... |
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Looking Out For Sarah
2004 - Winner(s) In this outstanding picture book, the beautiful harmony between text and illustrations conveys the special bond between Perry, a black Labrador retriever guide dog, and... |
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Things Not Seen
2004 - Winner(s) In this thought-provoking novel, main character Bobby, 15, wakes up one morning invisible. He feels isolated until he meets Alicia, a teenager who has experienced... |
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A Mango Shaped Space
2004 - Winner(s) The main character Mia is a sensitive 13-year-old girl who comes to terms with a rare neurological condition called Synesthesia. The story is an introspective... |
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