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the-final-sentence · 9 months

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It isn't always easy, but being me is the best, and sometimes I need a little rest.

Keah Brown, from Sam's Super Seats

#Keah Brown #Sam's Super Seats

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bugonmywindow · 6 days

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- Take the Mic

#books #booklr #book quotes #book recommendations #inspiring quotes #take the mic #keah brown #rev

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displayheartcode · 1 year

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do you know how wonderful it is to now read books that feature your disability? for years, i've had such few examples of cerebral palsy in fiction. but look! an ambulatory high schooler navigating her senior year, a girl searching for a summer romance after a major surgery, a musician dealing with unwanted internet fame! i have representation!

#rachel in real life #this is one of the reasons why i'm so passionate about YA books #where you see yourself #the secret summer promise #you me and our heartstrings #claire forrest #keah brown #melissa see #melissa has another book that's coming out this summer called love letters for joy

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lgbtqreads · 11 months

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Authors in Conversation: Keah Brown and Sarah Moon

Today on the site, I’m delighted to welcome authors Keah Brown and Sarah Moon to talk about their books, The Secret Summer Promise and Middletown, both of which released on Tuesday from Levine Querido! (The former was a brand new release, while the latter was a paperback rerelease with a beautiful new cover.) They’ve written their own intro, so I’m just gonna step aside and let them take it away!…

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#featured #Keah Brown #Levine Querido #Middletown #Sarah Moon #The Secret Summer Promise #YA

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qbdatabase · 11 months

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Daily Book - The Secret Summer Promise

The Secret Summer Promise Keah Brown YA Fiction / Romance, 2023, 304 pg black bisexual female MC with cerebral palsy x Asian-American wlw female (possible) LI; male (possible) LI

THE BSE (Best Summer Ever) LIST!

Blueberries

Art show in ShoeHorn

Lizzo concert

Thrift shop pop-up

Skinny Dipping at the lake house

Amusement Park Day!

Drew Barrymarathon

Paintball day

Oh, and ….

Fall out of love with Hailee.

Andrea Williams has got this. The Best Summer Ever. Last summer, she spent all her time in bed, recovering from the latest surgery for her cerebral palsy. She’s waited too long for adventure and thrills to enter her life. Together with her crew of ride-or-die friends, and the best parents anyone could ask for (just don’t tell them that), she’s going to live it up.

There’s just one thing that could ruin it: Her best friend, Hailee, finding out Andrea’s true feelings. So Andrea WILL fall out of love with Hailee – even if it means dating the cute boy George who keeps showing up everywhere with a smile.

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#the secret summer promise #keah brown #2020s #300 pg #female protagonist #fiction #lgbtqia #queer books #romance #YA books #bisexual #bi rep #wlw #wlw rep #disabled rep #daily book

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leotanaka · 2 years

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#important #disability tag #cerebral palsy #keah brown

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cupofteajones · 2 years

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Quote of the Day - July 20, 2022

Quote of the Day – July 20, 2022

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#Disability #Disability Awareness #Disability Awareness Month #Disability Rights #Inspirational Quotes #Keah Brown #Nonfiction #Privilege #Quote of the Day #Quotes #Quotes from Books #Strength #The Pretty One

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first--lines · 11 months

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Millie hadn’t created her first storm yet, but she knew when one was brewing. She shut her locker door just as she heard gum pop. Millie pressed her books to her chest and sighed. She could tell who it was without looking: Kacey Donovan and the Miserables, her band of flunkies who had been tormenting Millie since elementary school. Millie’s mother had taught her that hate took up too much room in the heart to be considered anything but useless. However, Millie felt like she had just enough room for Kacey.

— Mother Nature’s Youngest Daughter (Keah Brown) from Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens

#book quotes #ya fiction #fantasy fiction #short stories #keah brown #unbroken: 13 stories starring disabled teens #mother nature's youngest daughter

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thatwritererinoriordan · 2 years

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Out now

#sam's super seats #keah brown #sharee miller #picture books #disability awareness

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the-bi-library · 9 months

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Happy Disability Pride Month!

Here are some books with disabled bi MCs to celebrate the occasion 💖

Books listed

💕 The Faithless by C.L. Clark 💕 Icebreaker by A.L. Graziadei 💕 The Immeasurable Depth of You by Maria Ingrande Mora 💕 The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonora Reyes 💕 Forever Is Now by Mariama J. Lockington 💕 Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert 💕 Stars in Their Eyes: A Graphic Novel by Jessica Walton 💕 The Disasters by M.K. England 💕 The Secret Summer Promise by Keah Brown 💕 Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao 💕 Scoring a Spouse by Liz Lincoln 💕 Other bound by Corinne Duyvis 💕 Play It Again by Aidan Wayne 💕 Dark Pines by Will Dean 💕 Izzy at the End of the World by K.A. Reynolds 💕 In The Ring by Sierra Isley 💕 Dearly Departed by Heather Novak 💕 Monstersona by Chloe Spencer

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the-final-sentence · 2 years

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But for now, I'm happy to slide into a few more DMs, flirt with a few more people, live my life, and fall deeper in love with myself while I wait for them.

Keah Brown, from “Loved Out Loud”

#Keah Brown #Loved Out Loud

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hellyeahscarleteen · 4 months

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Support from the Start: How to Talk About Disability With A Disabled Partner When You're a Nondisabled Person

New relationships - whether romantic, sexual, or both - are almost always exciting, no matter who you are. But for people with disabilities in relationships with neurotypical, nondisabled partners, new relationships can be filled with anxiety, including anxiety about the serious conversations that need to be held. Is there a best way to tell your partner you’re disabled? As an autistic person, I’ve learned there is no “best way,” so much as being vulnerable and honest within my comfort level and making sure whoever my partner is capable of being supportive of my identity and understanding the various needs associated with my neurodivergence.

Disability covers a wide range of conditions, such as cognitive and learning differences, intellectual disabilities, visual or hearing impairments, or physical disabilities. Each person’s experience and exact disability traits are different. Like anybody else, people with disabilities generally want intimacy, to love and be loved. We are worthy of companionship, love, and sex. Spend any time on the accounts of disabled social media creators like Alex Dacy, Keah Brown, or Andrew Gurza, and the message is clear: just like anybody else, disabled people can perceived as desirable, we see ourselves as cute, and we crave the same range of human desires as nondisabled people. But what exactly does all of that mean for our partners, who are often new to this whole disability thing?

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displayheartcode · 23 days

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hello! what are your top 5 (or 10, if you can't choose) wlw books? doesn't have to be in the romance genre!

ONE LAST STOP by Casey McQuiston - a time slip romance between a jaded former detective and a woman from the 1970s thanks to the Q train.

THE LOCKED TOMB by Tamsyn Muir - several elite necromancers and their sworn swordsmen are invited to compete for sainthood.

A SCATTER OF LIGHT by Malinda Lo - a YA coming-of-age story about a teenager exploring the queer art scene – also related to LAST NIGHT AT THE TELEGRAPH CLUB.

AFTERWORLDS by Scott Westerfeld - after her manuscript is picked up, recent high school graduate learns the most painful truths of being an author – the self-imposed misery of finishing the book

A LESSON IN VENGEANCE by Victoria Lee - a book that's very much for meeeeeeeeeeeeee!

HONEY GIRL by Morgan Rogers - done with completing her PhD, Grace is adrift after an accidental marriage causes her to confront what she wants in her future.

THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - rival assassins fight each other across space and time, leaving letters behind.

Anything by Alexandria Bellefleur!

EVEN THOUGH I KNEW THE END by CL Polk - a private detective's life is on the line in Chicago as angels and monsters play their own games.

THE SECRET SUMMER PROMISE by Keah Brown - Andrea's summer bucket list implodes after a fight with her best friend.

BONUS

FROM DUST, A FLAME by Rebecca Podos - Hannah's mother vanishes after a curse awakens. Now determined to understand her complicated family legacy, Hannah learns that her past is littered with golems, dybbukim, and the demonic deals our loved ones will make to save us.

#anyone else need recs?#otterandterrier

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disabled-dragoon · 8 months

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Disability Picture Books #2

[ID: A poster reading "Disability Picture Books" in black writing in the centre. A small, circular logo is in the top right corner. It is red with an open book in the middle, white leaves around the book, and the word "The Disability Archive" across the bottom. In the lower left corner, cartoonish clipart of children climbing a colourful stack of books. All of this is overlayed onto the disability pride flag. /end]

[ID: The same poster, edited. The writing has been removed and replaced by four book covers, and the images in both corners have been shrunken slightly. The book covers, from top to bottom, are: "Jubilee", "The You Kind of Kind", "The World Needs More Purple People", and "My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay." /end]

[ID: The same poster, with different book covers. The four books, from top to bottom, are: "You Are Loved", "A Day With No Words", "You Are Enough", and "Sam's Super Seats". /end]

[ID: The same poster, with different book covers. The four books, from top to bottom, are: "All Are Welcome", "We Move Together", "Kami and the Yaks", and "Zoom!" /end]

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A collection of picture books featuring disabled characters and/or discussions of disability!

Once again, thank you to @creativiteaa for providing the majority of the list, and thank you to @moonflowero1 for your contribution to!

Book List:

'Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream' by K. T. Johnsons, Illustrated by Anabella Ortiz- Paralysis, Therapy Animal

'The You Kind of Kind' by Nina West, Illustrated by Hayden Evans- Wheelchair User

'The World Needs More Purple People' by Kristen Bell and Benjamin Hart, Illustrated by Daniel Wiseman- Wheelchair User

'My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay' by Cari Best, Illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton- Blind

'You Are Loved: A Book About Families' by Margaret O'Hair and Sofia Sanchez, Illustrated by Sofia Cardoso

'You Are Enough: A Book About Inclusion' by Margaret O'Hair and Sofia Sanchez, Illustrated by Sofia Cardoso

'A Day With No Words' by Tiffany Hammond, Illustrated by Kate Cosgrove- Autism, Non-Verbal

'Sam's Super Seats' by Keah Brown, Illustrated by Sharee Miller- Cerebral Palsy

'All Are Welcome' by Alexandra Penfold, Illustrated by Suzanne Kaufman

'Kami and the Yaks' by Andrea Stenn Stryer, Illustrated by Bert Dodson- Deaf

'We Move Together' by Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire, Illustrated by Eduardo Trejos

'Zoom!' by Robert Munsch, Illustrated by Michael Martchenko- Wheelchair User

#disability #books #disability books #picture books #book list #disability literature #disability representation #disabled characters #resources #disability resources #images #image descriptions #image description in alt #alt text #long post #part 2 #picture books part 2 #queue

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richincolor · 9 months

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[The six images above are the covers of the books that are featured in the post and are described below after each of the titles.]

Disability Pride Month

For Disability Pride Month we gathered a few titles that we have enjoyed and/or hope to read in the near future. If you know of others that shouldn't be missed, please let us know.

The Secret Summer Promise by Keah Brown Levine Querido [Cover is painted and shows three young people sitting near water with a bright sun up above. They're wearing shorts and have long dark hair.]

THE BSE (Best Summer Ever) LIST!

1. Blueberries 2. Art show in ShoeHorn 3. Lizzo concert 4. Thrift shop pop-up 5. Skinny Dipping at the lake house 6. Amusement Park Day! 7. Drew Barrymarathon 8. Paintball day

Oh, and ….

9. Fall out of love with Hailee

Andrea Williams has got this. The Best Summer Ever. Two summers ago, she spent all her time in bed, recovering from the latest surgery for her cerebral palsy. She’s waited too long for adventure and thrills to enter her life. Together with her crew of ride-or-die friends, and the best parents anyone could ask for (just don’t tell them that), she’s going to live it up.

There’s just one thing that could ruin it: Her best friend, Hailee, finding out Andrea’s true feelings. So Andrea WILL fall out of love with Hailee – even if it means dating the cute boy George who keeps showing up everywhere with a smile.

Do we want Andrea to succeed? No! Does she? We’re not telling!

Breathe and Count Back from Ten by Natalia Sylvester Clarion Books [Cover has a young woman swimming in water. She is wearing a bikini and there are scars visible on her back.]

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 in the summer before her senior year, all while figuring out her first real boyfriend and how to feel safe in her own body.

Verónica has had many surgeries to manage her disability. The best form of rehabilitation is swimming, so she spends hours in the pool, but not just to strengthen her body.

Her Florida town is home to Mermaid Cove, a kitschy underwater attraction where professional mermaids perform in giant tanks . . . and Verónica wants to audition. But her conservative Peruvian parents would never go for it. And they definitely would never let her be with Alex, her cute new neighbor.

She decides it’s time to seize control of her life, but her plans come crashing down when she learns her parents have been hiding the truth from her—the truth about her own body.

The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonora Reyes Balzer + Bray [Cover shows four brightly dressed young people in a narrow passageway or hallway. They are leaning in towards each other to pose together for the picture.]

Ariana Ruiz wants to be noticed. But as an autistic girl who never talks, she goes largely ignored by her peers, despite her bold fashion choices. So when cute, popular Luis starts to pay attention to her, Ari finally feels seen.

Luis’s attention soon turns to something more, and they have sex at a party—while Ari didn’t say no, she definitely didn’t say yes. Before she has a chance to process what happened and decide if she even has the right to be mad at Luis, the rumor mill begins churning—thanks, she’s sure, to Luis’s ex-girlfriend, Shawni. Boys at school now see Ari as an easy target, someone who won’t say no.

Then Ari finds a mysterious note in her locker that eventually leads her to a group of students determined to expose Luis for the predator he is. To her surprise, she finds genuine friendship among the group, including her growing feelings for the very last girl she expected to fall for. But in order to take Luis down, she’ll have to come to terms with the truth of what he did to her that night—and risk everything to see justice done.

Disability Visibility Adapted for Young People edited by Alice Wong Delacorte Press [Our review] [The cover has several geometric shapes and bright colors on it along with the title.]

The seventeen eye-opening essays in Disability Visibility , all written by disabled people, offer keen insight into the complex and rich disability experience, examining life's ableism and inequality, its challenges and losses, and celebrating its wisdom, passion, and joy.

The accounts in this collection ask readers to think about disabled people not as individuals who need to be “fixed,” but as members of a community with its own history, culture, and movements. They offer diverse perspectives that speak to past, present, and future generations. It is essential reading for all.

Something More by Jackie Khalileh Tundra [The cover shows three students in uniform near a school sign. One is standing in front and the other two people are sitting on top of the sign.]

Fifteen-year-old Jessie, a quirky loner obsessed with the nineties, is diagnosed as autistic just weeks before starting high school. Determined to make a fresh start and keep her diagnosis a secret, Jessie creates a list of goals that range from acquiring two distinct eyebrows to getting a magical first kiss and landing a spot in the school play. Within the halls of Holy Trinity High, she finds a world where things are no longer black and white and quickly learns that living in color is much more fun. But Jessie gets more than she bargained for when two very different boys steal her heart, forcing her to go off-script.

Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens edited by Marieke Nijkamp Farrar, Straus and Giroux [This cover features two people hugging with their eyes closed on the cover. One has long hair and the other has very closely cut hair on one side with longer hair on the top. The one with short hair has a cane in one hand.]

This anthology explores disability in fictional tales told from the viewpoint of disabled characters, written by disabled creators. With stories in various genres about first loves, friendship, war, travel, and more, Unbroken will offer today's teen readers a glimpse into the lives of disabled people in the past, present, and future.

The contributing authors are awardwinners, bestsellers, and newcomers including Kody Keplinger, Kristine Wyllys, Francisco X. Stork, William Alexander, Corinne Duyvis, Marieke Nijkamp, Dhonielle Clayton, Heidi Heilig, Katherine Locke, Karuna Riazi, Kayla Whaley, Keah Brown, and Fox Benwell. Each author identifies as disabled along a physical, mental, or neurodiverse axis―and their characters reflect this diversity.

#young adult lit #disability pride month

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bookaddict24-7 · 11 months

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