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Welcome to the list of Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024!

I am so sorry that this post has been even more delayed than last month. A massive thank you to Cherri, Dani Finn, Eryn McConnell and Marianne Ratcliffe for being generous with their time and helping with the alt text descriptions for the book covers, helping me to get this post finished quicker <3

Each month I will be taking the books from the main list of 2024 Disabled and Neurodivergent Book and Comic Releases and sharing them with more details. The main list is so long that I can’t add in covers and plot summaries without making it a loading nightmare. Now I get to show these amazing titles in full every month.

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March 2024 Releases

Without further ado, here are the Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024!

In the Society of Women (Ladies Occult Society #3)Krista D. Ball
Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024 - In the Society of Women (Ladies Occult Society #3) - An illustrated book cover showing a regency manor house set against a hilly backdrop with two figures standing in the gardens. One is a white-skinned man with tousled blonde hair. He is wearing a regency style brown coat over a light shirt, black waistcoat, light pants and brown boots. He is standing in the distance, walking towards a white-skinned woman. She is standing among wild grass and is turned away, facing towards him and the manor. She is wearing a long-sleeved blue regency style dress with a white ruffled collar. Her brown hair is pulled back in a bun. In a sunset coloured sky filled with clouds, the title, In the Society of Women, is printed in black text with 'the' and 'of' printed in calligraphy. The series name, Ladies Occult Society, is printed in smaller calligraphy beneath it. The author's name, Krista D. Bell, is printed in pale yellow font at the bottom of the cover. Three thousand pounds. It had become Miss Elizabeth Knight’s mantra as of late. For good reason, too. Another sibling on the way, assuming she doesn’t lose another stepmother in the process. Charles is about to move back home. G is out in society. And an illness has turned her father erratic. Disaster strikes twice amongst her occult family, and so Elizabeth defies her father for the first time in her life and packs her trunks and heads to London. There, she offers comfort and support, in between working on healing magic and summoning The Twins, under Mrs. Egerton’s ghostly gaze. But when Mr. Sidney Sinclair shows up at Aunt Cass’s house in the middle of the night, Elizabeth knows her life will never be the same. And she will need those three thousand pounds soon enough.
1st MarchHistorical fantasy, adult, author has chronic pain and a character has an unnamed illness.
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A Deadly EndeavorJenny Adams
Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024 - A Deadly Endeavor by Jenny Adams - The cover is misty blue with a golden frame in the Art Nouveau style around the edges, with small skulls on either side. A woman drawn in line art, dark blue to black, is behind the golden words of the title, A Deadly Endeavor, wearing a dress and a pearl necklace and looking pensive. The author's name, Jenny Adams, is printed in gold font in the bottom panel of the frame.Philadelphia, 1921. When Edie Shippen returns home after spending years in California recovering from Influenza, she’s shocked to discover her childhood sweetheart is engaged to her twin sister. Heartbroken and adrift, Edie vows to begin living her life as a modern woman—and to hell with anyone who gets in her way. But as young women start to disappear from the city,  her newfound independence begins to feel dangerous.

Gilbert Lawless returned home from the Great War a shell of his former self. He hides away in the office of Philadelphia’s Coroner, content to keep to himself until a gruesome series of corpses come into the morgue. And when his sister, Lizzie, goes missing, he risks his career to beg help from the one person Lizzie seemed to trust: her employer, Edie Shippen. 

Fearing the worst, Edie and Gilbert desperately search for clues. It soon becomes clear that Lizzie’s disappearance is connected to the deaths rocking the City of Brotherly Love… and it’s only a matter of time until the killer strikes again.
5th MarchHistorical mystery, adult, MCs with chronic migraines, anxiety/depression, and PTSD.
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Aftermarket AfterlifeSeanan McGuire
Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024 - Aftermarket Afterlife by Seanan McGuire - An illustrated book cover with a blurred smokey grey background. In the centre is a pale woman with white hair, pale blue eyes and a serious expression. She is wearing a long white sleeved top, a brown waistcoat and brown skirt. She is holding a young child on her hip. The girl has her head in the woman's shoulder, and has dark brown hair cut in a bob. She is wearing a green and yellow striped dress. Glowing embers of fire are dotted around the smoke around them and in the background. At the top of the cover, a small yellow font reads 'New York Times Bestselling Author' with the author's name, Seanan McGuire, printed below it in a large white font. On the left below the title is the series name, 'An InCryptid Novel' in a small yellow font. The title, Aftermarket Afterlife, is printed in a large white font with a red outline at the bottom of the cover.Seanan McGuire’s New York Times -bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated urban fantasy InCryptid series continues with the thirteenth book following the Price family, cryptozoologists who study and protect the creatures living in secret all around usMary Dunlavy didn’t intend to become a professional babysitter. Of course, she didn’t intend to die, either, or to become a crossroads ghost. As a babysitting ghost, she’s been caring for the Price family for four generations, and she’s planning to keep doing the job for the better part of forever. With her first charge finally back from her decades-long cross-dimensional field trip, with a long-lost husband and adopted daughter in tow, it’s time for Mary to oversee the world’s most chaotic family reunion. And that’s before the Covenant of St. George launches a full scale strike against the cryptids of Manhattan, followed quickly by an attack on the Campbell Family Carnival. It’s going to take every advantage and every ally they have for the Prices to survive what’s coming—and for Mary, to avoid finding out the answer to a question she’s never wanted to where does a babysitting ghost go when she runs out of people to take care of?
5th MarchUrban fantasy, adult, disabled author.
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Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About DisabilityMelissa Blake
Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024 - Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability by Melissa Blake - A grey book cover that is covered in circles of various sizes. There are small circles of block colours, white, yellow, green and blue dotted around larger ones containing photographs of the author, Melissa Blake. She is a white woman with a round face and short red hair cut in a bob, and she’s smiling in all the photos. One photo shows her with a book, another only her eyes in glasses, one with what looks like a canister of frosting, one with a black cat, one with a plushie. The title, Beautiful People, and the author's name, Melissa Blake, are printed in a thin white font in the centre of the cover. Sandwiched in between these are the words of the subtitle, 'My Thirteen Truths about Disability', with 'my' printed in blue, 'thirteen truths' in green, 'about' in yellow and 'disability' in red.Well-known disability activist and social media influencer, Melissa Blake, offers a frank, illuminating memoir and a call to action for disabled people and allies.

In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa Blake penned an op-ed for CNN Opinion. A conservative pundit caught wind of it, mentioning Blake’s work in a YouTube video. What happened next is equal parts a searing view into society, how we collectively view and treat disabled people, and the making of an advocate. After a troll said that Blake should be banned from posting pictures of herself, she took to Twitter and defiantly posted three smiling selfies, all taken during a lovely vacation in the Big

I wanted desperately to clap back at these vile trolls in a way that would make a statement, not only about how our society views disabilities, but also about the toxicity of our strict and unrealistic beauty standards. Of course I knew that posting those selfies wasn’t going to erase the nasty names I’d been called and, the chances were, they would never even see my tweet, but that didn’t matter. I wasn’t doing it for them; I was doing it for me and every single disabled person who has been bullied before, online and in real life. When people mock how I look, they’re not just insulting me. They’re insulting all disabled people. We’re constantly told that we’re repulsive and ugly and not good enough to be seen. This was me pushing back against that toxic, ableist narrative.

For the first time, I felt like I was doing something empowering, taking back my power and changing the story.

Her tweet went viral, attracting worldwide media attention and interviews with the BBC, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, PEOPLE magazine, Good Morning America and E! News.

Now, in her manifesto,  Beautiful People, Blake shares her truths about disability, writing about (among other things): Blake also tells the stories of some of the heroes of the disability rights movement in America, in doing so rescuing their incredible achievements from near total obscurity. Highlighting other disabled activists and influencers, Blake’s work is the calling card of a powerful voice—one that has sparked new, different, better conversations about disability.
5th MarchMemoir, author has Freeman-Sheldon Syndrome, book talks about disabilities and ableism.
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Breathing UnderwaterAbbey Lee Nash
Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024 - Breathing Underwater by Abbey Nash - The cover shows a blonde young white woman’s face and neck underwater, with bubbles surrounding her flowing hair. Her facial expression is maybe a little sad, but not concerned about drowning. The title, “Breathing Underwater” frames her face, above and below, in curving plain lettering, purple and white. The author's name, “Abbey Lee Nash” is in plain white text in the bottom right corner of the cover.In this slice-of-life, sensitively written novel, a teen girl grapples with a sudden epilepsy diagnosis, all while figuring out a new crush and an uncertain future. Seventeen-year-old Tess Cooper lives by three train hard, study hard, work hard. Swimming is her best chance at a college scholarship. It’s what her parents, her coaches, and even her best friend expect from her—and Tess can always deliver. Until tragedy strikes. Tess has a seizure, and her world suddenly becomes one of doctor visits, missed practices, and a summer job stuck behind a counter—not sitting high in the lifeguard chair like every year before. Instead, her spot goes to new guy Charlie. Sure, his messy hair and laid-back demeanor sends Tess’ heart racing, but this isn’t really the time. She’s got to focus on getting back in the pool—regardless of what her doctor or anyone else says.
5th MarchContemporary fiction, young adult, MC has epilepsy.
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Gut ReactionKirby Larson and Quinn Wyatt
Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024 - Gut Reaction by Kirby Larson and Quinn Wyatt - A book cover with a gradient background of lavender down to light blue. On the background are white outline illustrations of food items containing gluten, such as pies, cakes and cookies. There is a light yellow intestine design that doubles as a path down the centre of the cover. A young white woman walks down the path, looking backwards over her shoulder at the porcupine following her with a shocked look on her face. She has shoulder-length dark hair with two blue slides on the left side. She is wearing jeans, multicoloured hiking boots, and a purple hoodie with black patches sewed on the left sleeve and an orange backpack. Her hands are clutching at the straps of her backpack. At the top of the cover, printed in small dark blue text, is a quote from Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of Refugee and Two Degrees; "A powerful story about living with a disease and not letting it define who you are". The title, Gut Reaction, is printed in a large dark purple font, each word in a coil of the path. Further down the curve in the path, printed in smaller purple text, are the authors' names, Kirby Larson & Quinn Wyatt.Author Kirby Larson, and her daughter, debut author, Quinn Wyatt, pen this story that explores what living with a chronic illness is like.

Tess Medina is still dealing with the loss of her father when she starts at a new school. One way she is still able to feel close to him is by doing what she does — baking. He taught her everything she knows. But when tasting her creations causes a deep stabbing pain in her abdomen, she tries to power through and be strong in the same way she powers through her emotional pain. She doesn’t mind too much–she’s okay with sharing her baked goods at school in the hopes of making new friends.

Lucky for Tess, her baking skills attract the right kind of attention, and she assembles a ragtag team to help her taste her new and classic creations in preparation for the Jubilee Flour Junior Baker West Coast competition. This is a chance to redeem herself and prove that she’s a star baker. Above all, Tess is desperate to win first place and make her dad proud.

But leading up to the competition, Tess’s pain gets worse and worse, and, soon, she finds that she’s avoiding so many foods that she’s barely eating. When the physical pain becomes too great, Tess will be forced to confront everything she has been trying so desperately to hide.
5th MarchContemporary fiction, middle grade, author and MC have Crohn’s disease.
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The Color of SoundEmily Barth Isler
Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024 - The Color of Sound by Emily Barth Isler - An illustrated book cover showing a white-skinned young girl in profile on the right side, looking to the left. She has long wavy black hair, brown eyes and fine features, and is wearing a light blue and lavender chequered sweater over a white collared shirt. Behind her head, white clouds fill the top section of the cover. Wavy orange lines flow across the clouds, with a violin and a notebook floating in them. Similar bright multicoloured wavy lines fill the bottom left corner, and a cream clock face with Roman numerals is partially visible in the lines. White musical notes float around the lines at the top and bottom. The title, The Color of Sound, is interwoven in between the top orange lines and is printed in a red and green ombre font. The author’s name, Emily Barth Isler, is printed in smaller teal font below the title.Twelve-year-old Rosie is a musical prodigy whose synesthesia allows her to see music in colors. Her mom has always pushed her to become a concert violinist, but this summer Rosie refuses to play, wanting a “normal” life. Forced to spend the summer with her grandparents, Rosie is excited to meet another girl her age hanging out on their property. The girl is familiar, and Rosie quickly pieces it together: somehow, this girl is her mother, when her mother was twelve. With help from this glitch in time―plus her grandparents, an improv group, and a new instrument―Rosie comes to understand her mother, herself, and her love of music in new ways.
5th MarchContemporary Fiction, middle grade, author has synesthesia and OCD, and MC has synesthesia.
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The No-Girlfriend RuleChristen Randall
Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024 - The No-Girlfriend Rule by Christen Randall - An illustrated book cover with a light orange and yellow background, showing two figures walking and smiling at each other in front of a comic book store window. The figure in the foreground is a plus-sized white woman with long red hair, a short-sleeved blue top, and blue pants. She carries a purple bag with several pins on it over her shoulder, and wears black flats on her feet. A slender brown skinned woman walks by her side. She has short brown hair that is dyed bright orange on top and is wearing an orange t-shirt and blue jeans with tennis shoes in white, light blue, and pink, similar to the transgender flag. The author's name, Christen Randall, is printed at the top in dark purple font. The title, The No-Girlfriend Rule is in large purple font, except for the word 'No', which is slightly larger and superimposed, in a paintbrush font. At the bottom right, the tag line is printed in small purple font; “Sometimes romance is right in character.”Julie Murphy meets Casey McQuiston in this unforgettable queer romance about a teen girl whose foray into fantasy tabletop roleplaying brings her new confidence, true friends, and a shot at real, swoon-worthy love.

Hollis Beckwith isn’t trying to get a girl—she’s just trying to get by. For a fat, broke girl with anxiety, the start of senior year brings enough to worry about. And besides, she already has a Chris. Their relationship isn’t particularly exciting, but it’s comfortable and familiar, and Hollis wants it to survive beyond senior year. To prove she’s a girlfriend worth keeping, Hollis decides to learn Chris’s favorite tabletop roleplaying game, Secrets & Sorcery—but his unfortunate “No Girlfriends at the Table” rule means she’ll need to find her own group if she wants in.

Gloria Castañeda and her all-girls game of S&S! Crowded at the table in Gloria’s cozy Ohio apartment, the six girls battle twisted magic in-game and become fast friends outside it. With her character as armor, Hollis starts to believe that maybe she can be more than just fat, anxious, and a little lost.

But then an in-game crush develops between Hollis’s character and the bard played by charismatic Aini Amin-Shaw, whose wide, cocky grin makes Hollis’s stomach flutter. As their gentle flirting sparks into something deeper, Hollis is no longer sure what she wants…or if she’s content to just play pretend.
5th MarchQueer Romance, young adult, author is neurodivergent, MC has anxiety.
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The Reluctant Heartthrob (Chu’s Restaurant #2)Jackie Lau
Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024 - The Reluctant Heartthrob (Chu's Restaurant #2) by Jackie Lau - A book cover featuring artwork of a young East Asian man and East Asian woman about to kiss, with the man’s arms around the woman’s back and hers pressed against his chest and shoulder. The woman has brown hair pulled back into a bun, wears glasses and a white t-shirt. The man has curly hair and wears a blue collared shirt. Their eyes are both closed. Printed in small words at the top is 'a CHU’S RESTAURANT BOOK' and beneath it surrounded by white dots like a movie marquee is the title, The Reluctant Heartthrob, in lavender font. The word 'Reluctant' is styled in a cursive font. The author’s name, Jackie Lau, is at the bottom in light peach.Data scientist Robyn Au keeps seeing a cute guy at her neighborhood coffee shop. When she encounters him at a bar, she talks to him on a dare, and they enjoy a hot night together.But the next morning, she’s shocked to find his picture in a listicle. Did she just sleep with Ethan Park, an actor on Chu’s Restaurant? She panics and leaves without saying goodbye. Convinced she’ll die of embarrassment if she meets him again, she starts avoiding the coffee shop. Besides, what has dating gotten her in the past? Just lots of men saying she isn’t who they want her to be, and she’s too awesome to subject herself to that.Unfortunately, she left her favorite bra at his place, and soon decides she can’t live without it. When she comes to collect it, Ethan asks her on a date, and she hesitantly agrees.But she won’t sleep with Canada’s newest heartthrob again until they’ve been dating more than a month, which is longer than she’s ever dated anyone before. She’s convinced this can’t last, but grumpy Ethan, who’s completely unlike his himbo character, might end up changing her mind above love after all…
5th MarchContemporary romance, adult, MC is neurodivergent.
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The Scooter TwinsDorothy Ellen Palmer and Maria Sweeney (illustrator)
Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024 - The Scooter Twins by Dorothy Ellen Palmer and Maria Sweeney (illustrator) - An illustrated book cover of a white-skinned boy and a white-skinned girl facing each other, shown from the chest up, with two motorized mobility scooters on the road behind them, one black, one green. The boy on the right has curly dark hair and green glasses and wears a striped turquoise and white t-shirt. The girl on the left has sandy brown hair styled in a braid that hangs down on the left side. It is tied at the end with a red apple hair tie. She wears a light purple dress with little flowers and a green border on the neckline and sleeves. The title, The Scooter Twins, is near the top, in a rounded, child-friendly font in white letters, with Scooter outlined in the purple of the girl’s dress and Twins in the turquoise of the boy’s shirt.Melanie and Melvin may be twins, but they couldn’t be more different. Melanie is LOUD and Melvin is quiet. Melvin likes frogs and Melanie loves MOTORCYCLES! When the twins learn that they will get their very own mobility scooters, Melanie is excited to race to school, but Melvin is worried he’ll fall ― and that people will stare. And there’s a Grandma can’t afford the scooters without selling one of Mom’s treasured paintings, one of the only things the twins have left to remember their parents. In the process of getting their scooters, Melanie and Melvin have to navigate challenges that people with disabilities face on a daily rudeness from a store clerk and products that aren’t made with kids in mind. But in the end, Melanie and Melvin choose scooters that are just right for them and make moving through their neighborhood a new adventure. Written by disability advocate and mobility scooter user Dorothy Ellen Palmer, and illustrated by Maria Sweeney, The Scooter Twins is an #ownvoices story that shares the joys and challenges of disabled childhood, and offers many kids who get new wheels the opportunity to find themselves in the pages of a book.
5th MarchPicture book, children’s, disabled author and illustrator, MCs are disabled and use mobility scooters.
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Butterfly on the WindAdam Pottle and Ziyue Chen (illustrator)
Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024 - Butterfly on the Wind by Adam Pottle and Ziyue Chen - A blue illustrated book cover featuring a young light-skinned girl with long straight brown hair wearing a white t-shirt and a pleated purple skirt. She is looking up in the air and smiling as she makes the American sign language (ASL) sign of a butterfly with her hands by crossing them at the wrists, her palms facing inwards. Next to the girl in the left corner are a group of dandelions, some heads still showing yellow flowers and others showing white fluffy seeds. White and pink lines swirl around the girl and in the air, and pink butterflies with white stripes are flying in the air around the girl. The title, Butterfly on the Wind, is printed in a large navy blue font at the top of the cover above the girl's head. In the bottom left corner in a smaller black font text reads 'written by Adam Pottle illustrated by Ziyue Chen'.A magical picture book about a Deaf girl who creates a butterfly with Sign Language and sends it on a journey around the world.

On the day of the talent show, Aurora’s hands tremble. No matter how hard she tries to sign, her fingers stumble over one another and the words just won’t come. But as she’s about to give up, she spots a butterfly.

Using her hands to sign the ASL word for “butterfly,” Aurora sends a magical butterfly of her own into the world, inspiring Deaf people across the globe to add their own. The butterflies grow in numbers and strength as they circle back to Aurora, bolstering her with the love and support of her worldwide Deaf community.

Deaf picture book creators author Adam Pottle and artist Ziyue Chen combine powerful text and sweeping art into a moving story of resilience and self-belief.
12th MarchPicture book, children’s, Deaf author, Deaf MC.
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I Am ExtraordinaryStephen Curry and Geneva Bowers (illustrator)
Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024 - I Am Extraordinary by Stephen Curry (Author) Geneva Bowers (Illustrator) - An illustrated book cover featuring a soccer/football field. The field is green, with blue skies and a skyline of buildings and trees. A dark-skinned girl is up front in centre, playing with a soccer/football black and white ball. White lines swirl around her and the ball, signifying movement. She is wearing a soccer/football yellow top with a soccer ball/football emblem printed on the breast, pink shorts with two yellow stripes down the side and white and pink sports shoes. She has brown eyes, curly dark hair with a pink bow pinned in front, and she is wearing a pink and white hearing aid in her left ear. Bright lines and sparkles highlight the hearing aid, suggesting sound waves. She is smiling, and a white speech bubble coming from her mouth reads "Anything is possible when you believe in yourself!" in black text. Behind her to the left are a trio of three older girls standing watching her play. The first girl is dark skinned, has her long dark hair tied back in a side ponytail to the left. She is wearing a short-sleeved orange top with a white 07 on it, black pants and orange shoes. Her hands are resting on her hips. Next to her is an Asian girl with brown eyes and dark hair in two braids. She is wearing a white t-shirt knotted in the bottom left corner and camouflage pants. The third girl is white-skinned with short red hair and is wearing purple glasses, a purple short-sleeved t-shirt with a green border and green shorts with two orange stripes at the sides. She has red socks and orange shoes and is cheering at the girl playing. On the opposite side of the girl with the ball, there are two boys standing next to a netted goal. One is dark-skinned and is standing with his arms crossed, smiling as he watches the girl play. He is wearing a blue sleeveless sweater over a white short-sleeved top and blue shorts. A second boy is peeking out from behind him, with only part of his body visible. He is brown skinned and is wearing a white shirt and pale blue shorts. The author’s name, Stephen Curry, is printed in yellow at the top. There is a cartoon style portrait of the author, a man with short dark hair and a beard, in a circle in between his two names. Below the author's name, the title, 'I am Extraordinary', is printed in large green font with a white outline. Below the trio of girls on the left, small purple text reads 'illustrated by Geneva Bowlers'.In his sophomore picture book, NBA superstar Stephen Curry encourages kids to embrace the differences that make them extraordinary! It’s the first day of school for Zoe, a young girl with hearing loss who dreams of playing on her school’s soccer team. But, self-conscious of her hearing aids, Zoe is too nervous to try out. With the help of and perspectives from new friends, what begins as a bumpy, anxiety-filled start for Zoe, soon transitions into an eye-opening experience about what it means to be different—and what it means to be extraordinary. I Am Extraordinary teaches kids how to look inside themselves to find self-acceptance and the confidence to achieve any goal.
12th MarchPicture book, children’s, author has keratoconus.
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The Lumbering Giants of Windy PinesMo Netz
Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024 - The Lumbering Giants of Windy Pines By Mo Netz - An illustrated book cover showing a spooky trail in the woods with the shadows of goblins falling on a dirt path in the foreground. On the path are two young people, a white-skinned girl sitting in a wheelchair and a dark-skinned girl standing next to him. The girl in the wheelchair has short dark hair, and is wearing blue jeans with a hole in the left knee, blue shoes and a camouflage jacket over a brown top. There is a pair of headphones around her neck and a small silver dragon perched on her left shoulder. Her left hand is holding the rim of her wheelchair, and she is looking out into the dark woods in fear. The girl standing behind her is wearing glasses, purple overalls over a white shirt, and there is a rainbow on the front of her overalls. Her blue shoes have purple laces and soles. Her shoulder-length black hair is styled in braids that are tied with blue hair bobbles. Her right hand is closed in a tight fist and held at chest height, while her other arm holds a cell phone out towards the woods, using it as a flashlight. Like her companion, she also has a scared look on her face. The title, The Lumbering Giants of Windy Pines, is printed in the top of the cover and uses different colours and fonts. 'The' is in a small white with a dark green background. 'Lumbering' is in orange in a large cartoon style font with yellow outline. 'Giants' is printed in pale green in a large bubble font with a black outline. 'Of' is printed in a small white font and encircled in a navy blue circle. 'Windy Pines' is printed in white with a black outline in a script, with the last letters ('y' and 's') having a long winding tail. The whole title is then highlighted by a teal outline and navy shadow effect.In this debut spooky adventure, Jerry and her trusty wheelchair move into a creepy motel at the edge of the woods where nothing is as it seems. When her mom disappears, it’s up to Jerry to brave the forest and its demons so she can save what’s left of her family.

Ever since her dad died, 11-year-old Jerry Blum and her mom have bounced around dead-end towns, staying in a series of rundown motels where her mother picks up housekeeping work and Jerry can get around in her wheelchair. 

But the Slumbering Giant motel is different. Lights blink on and off in the surrounding trees, a mysterious radio station plays only at midnight, and people disappear into the woods, never to been seen again. Not to mention that Jerry’s mom keeps vanishing to do “special work” that she refuses to discuss. When her mother doesn’t come home one morning, Jerry springs into action.

Luckily, she’s not alone. Paul, a pocket-size imaginary dragon, and Chapel, a new friend with a penchant for the supernatural, join Jerry’s search for her missing mom. But along the way Jerry discovers her mother’s terrible she’s not a housekeeper at all; in fact, she’s been defending the town from demons that have been haunting it for generations.

Armed with nothing but a Ren Faire sword and a backpack, Jerry and her friends venture into the forbidden woods to save Jerry’s mother. But the “demons” hiding there aren’t what they seem, and Jerry must unravel the truth behind the town’s legend, or risk losing what’s left of her family.
12th MarchParanormal, middle grade, disabled author and MC is a wheelchair user.
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Truly HomeJ.J. Hale
Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024 - Truly Home by J.J. Hale - A book cover featuring a photograph of two white skinned women sitting close together in a room with white walls and a wood floor. One woman sits with her back to a wall, her head leaning forward towards the other woman who is lying in her lap. Her dark shoulder-length hair is falling forward. She is wearing a dark jacket over a light top. The other woman is lying with her head propped up in her companion's lap, her legs bent upwards at the knees. She has dark hair, and is wearing a white and black patterned long-sleeved top over a dark top and bright yellow pants. She is looking up at the other woman. Both of them are smiling at each other. Behind them, a pile of cardboard boxes can be seen, some open and others taped shut. The title, Truly Home, is printed in purple text at the top of the cover. The author's name is printed at the bottom in a white font. The bottom right corner has a red triangle logo of the publisher.The residents of Ruth Miller’s small rural village took it upon themselves to guide her after her parents died. But she’s an adult now and determined to find her own path, starting with learning more about the parents she lost too soon. Maybe if she understands who they were and how they shaped her, she’ll be able to share her life with someone special without the cold fingers of anxiety locking her into the comfort of familiar surroundings.Olivia Bell’s chaotic childhood has left her lonely. Her independence has served her well in everything except relationships, and she’s desperately searching for connection. She never had a happy home and left the minute she was old enough. The only person she can rely on is her little sister Grace, but Grace needs her help caring for their father—the last thing Olivia wants to do.When Ruth and Olivia meet, they become the one bright spot in each other’s days. But Ruth wishes more than anything for the family she lost, and Olivia would do almost anything to escape hers. Could home ever be more than a four-letter word?
12th MarchSapphic romance, adult, author is neurodivergent, and MC has anxiety.
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Henry and the Something NewJenn Bailey and Mika Song (illustrator)
Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024 - Henry and the Something New by Jenn Bailey and Mika Song (illustrator) - An illustrated book cover featuring an image of a young white-skinned boy standing in a museum. The boy has spiky, dark brown hair, and is wearing a plain white T-shirt and is carrying a folded map. He is smiling happily. Behind him in the museum are three dinosaur skeleton displays behind glass. On the left, a dark-skinned girl stands at an information point at the Tyrannosaurus rex display. Directly behind the boy, there is a Brontosaurus skeleton on display and on the right a young white skinned girl with long blonde hair and a white skinned boy with red hair stand looking at the skeleton of a Triceratops. The top section of the cover is covered by a blue background and the title, Henery and the Something New, is printed in a teal font. There is an orange strip at the bottom of the cover, and in printed in smaller teal text are the words 'By Jenn Bailey. Illustrated by Mika Song'.From the creators of A Friend for Henry and Henry, Like Always comes a delightful beginning chapter book about embracing new experiences, starring a sweet and sensitive child on the autism spectrum.
It’s Field Trip Day! Henry’s class is excited to visit the museum, but Henry is not so sure. The museum means maybe seeing dinosaurs, Henry’s favourite. But it also means a lot of things that are a noisy school bus ride, a building full of echoes and hallways, and plenty of chances to get lost! Will he find something that makes all of this new worth the trip? Come along with Henry in this funny, bighearted tale about trying new things, exploring new places, and finding the courage to make yourself heard.
JUST RIGHT FOR BEGINNING With short chapters and simple text, this book is perfect for newly independent readers who are just moving on to longer books.
FIRST FIELD This story will encourage and reassure any child beginning school or preparing to embark on their first field trip as Henry navigates the excitement (and potential anxiety) that comes with doing new things for the first time.
GREAT BACK-TO-SCHOOL Perfect for any reader starting a new school year, the Henry series explores common school experiences in a gentle, funny, and encouraging way. 
DIVERSE Centering neurodivergent kids is vital to expanding diverse representation across books for all ages. The Henry series provides a mirror and a window for kids on the autism spectrum and their friends to see themselves in the stories they read.
AN AWARD-WINNING Jenn Bailey and Mika Song received a Schneider Family Book Honor Award for their picture book A Friend for Henry. See how the story continues in this classic-feeling early reader series based on the same character!
19th MarchPicture book, children’s, MC is autistic.
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Saving Face: A MemoirEffy Redman
Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024 - Saving Face: A Memoir by Effy Redman - A book cover with a back background featuring a computer rendition of a female face that is glitching, like a faulty TV screen. The eyes are lost in black shadow. The colours of the face are metallic and comprise the entire rainbow spectrum, pale purples, pinks, blues and greens predominating. Horizontal lines of varying width pass in front of the face, containing the same metallic colours, blending into each other in a spectrum. At the top of the cover in a small white font a quote from Catherine Filloux, award-winning playwright, is printed; “This author goes where no other might dare”. The words 'Catherine Filloux, award-winning playwright' are highlighted in yellow. The title, Saving Face, is printed over the face in large white font. 'Saving' is printed across two lines, 'SAV' followed by 'ING'. Underneath the title on the left the subtitle, “A Memoir” is printed in small yellow italic capitals. The author's name, 'Effy Redman' is printed in white font at the bottom of the cover.What’s in a smile? Or the absent smile? Saving Face is Effy Redman’s thought-provoking answer.

Born with a rare condition of facial paralysis called Moebius Syndrome, Redman’s grit and eye for beauty help her survive childhood bullying and adolescent doldrums. Her physical transformation at age thirteen via plastic surgery eviscerates her concept of image, just in time for her and her family to immigrate from hardscrabble Manchester, England to America’s disorientingly scenic upstate New York. Not until diagnosis in young adulthood with bipolar disorder does Redman come out of the closet as a lesbian, finally claiming her most inherent identity.

Saving Face is a searing personal tribute to anybody who has ever felt like an outsider. This memoir honors the grace of a face that stands out in a crowd, defying societal beauty norms. Disability meets transcendence, suffering becomes hope, and the individual expands into community. The inability to smile, in Redman’s book, lights a window onto the human capacity for redemption.
19th MarchMemoir, adult, author has a condition called Moebius Syndrome that causes facial paralysis.
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But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My LifePaige Layle
Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024 - But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life by Paige Layle - A book cover featuring a close-up photograph of a white skinned woman's face and neck. She has blue eyes and blonde hair which is tucked behind her ear. She is wearing small gold earrings, black mascara and red lipstick, and is looking thoughtful. The lower half of the photograph below her face is blurred. The title, But Everyone Feels This Way, is printed in large white font in the centre of the cover. The subtitle, How an Autism diagnosis saved my life, is printed beneath it in a smaller gray font. The author's name, Paige Lyle, is printed in the same large white font as the title at the bottom of the cover.Autism acceptance activist and TikTok influencer Paige Layle shares her deeply personal journey to diagnosis and living life autistically. 

“For far too long, I was told I was just like everyone else. But as much as everyone tried to convince me, I knew it couldn’t be true. Living just seemed so much harder for me. Whilst the people around me seemed to have no problem being calm and happy, I had panic attacks multiple times a day, where my hyperventilating made my legs numb and sometimes I lost consciousness. This wasn’t okay. This wasn’t normal. This wasn’t functioning. And it certainly wasn’t fine.”

Paige Layle was normal. She lived in the countryside with her mom, dad, and brother Graham. She went to school, hung out with friends, and all the while everything seemed so much harder than it needed to be. A break in routine threw off the whole day. If her teacher couldn’t answer “why” in class, she dissolved into tears, unable to articulate her own confusion or explain her lack of control. 

But Paige was normal. She smiled in photos, picked her feet up when her mom needed to vacuum instead of fleeing the room, and received high grades. She was popular and well-liked. And until she had a full mental breakdown, no one believed her when she claimed that she was not okay.

In  But Everyone Feels This Way  Paige Layle shares her story as an autistic woman diagnosed late. Armed with the phrase “Autism Spectrum Disorder” (ASD), Paige challenges stigmas, taboos, and stereotypes while learning how to live her authentic, autistic life.
26th MarchMemoir, adult, author is autistic.
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Flap Your Hands: A Celebration of StimmingSteve Asbell
Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024 -This fascinating, groundbreaking picture book by an autistic creator celebrates stims–the repetitive movements that provide focused stimulation to people on the autistic spectrum.
When you’re feeling overwhelmed
And the world’s too much to bear…
If your feelings bubble over
But they have no place to go…
Maybe it would help to move!
Want to try a stim?
When four neurodivergent kids face some stressful moments, they use body movements called stims to self-regulate their emotions. One boy tickles the space next to his face; a girl flutters her fingers by her ears; another boy kicks his feet like splashy flippers; another girl directs her hands like a conductor! As the children say fun words, flap their hands, and engage in other stims, their actions build in energy and joyousness until their inner calm is restored.
Delightful text and color-drenched illustrations by debut author-illustrator Steve Asbell invites other neurodivergent readers to join in on the action. Flap Your Hands is a wonderful celebration and reminder that stimming is a natural and healthy thing to do!
26th MarchPicture book, children’s, author and characters are autistic.
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IcarusK. Ancrum
Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024 - Icarus By K. Ancrum - A blue book cover featuring a black sketched of a statue's head. The top of the head is missing, a diagonal slice going across the face from the middle of the left ear to the top of the right ear. Various neon coloured symbols fill the space around the head, and some are superimposed over the head. Across the mouth is a pale blue X shape. Above the broken head on the right side, there is a pink symbol of an eye with lines spreading out from it. Three orange tears drop from it, one positioned as if dropping from the statue's missing eye. A yellow star is over the statue's left ear, and a red star is on its neck. On the left of the neck there are two leaves, one blue and one yellow, and on the right is an image of a pink hand and wrist. It is a right hand and the thumb and index finger are touching at the fingertips. The author name, K. Ancrum, is printed in white font at the top of the cover. Below it, in a smaller font, text reads 'Author of the Wicker King'. Between this text and statue, there is a white silhouette of a figure falling downwards away from a yellow sun. On the left of the falling figure is a red crescent moon, and on the right is a large star. Beneath the crescent moon and next to the falling figure is an orange bird, which is accompanied by the tag line printed in white calligraphy; 'there is nothing a clever thief cannot steal'. The title, Icarus, is printed at the bottom in large white font.Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this suspenseful queer YA romance from critically acclaimed author K. Ancrum reimagines the tale of Icarus as a star-crossed love story between a young art thief and the son of the man he’s been stealing from.

Icarus Gallagher is a thief.

He steals priceless art and replaces it with his father’s impeccable forgeries. For years, one man—the wealthy Mr. Black—has been their target, revenge for his role in the death of Icarus’s mother. To keep their secret, Icarus adheres to his own strict rules to keep people, and feelings, at bay: Don’t let anyone close. Don’t let anyone touch you. And, above all, don’t get caught.

Until one night, he does. Not by Mr. Black, but by his mysterious son, Helios, now living under house arrest in the Black mansion. Instead of turning Icarus in, Helios bargains for something even more dangerous—a friendship that breaks every single one of Icarus’s rules.

As reluctance and distrust become closeness and something more, they uncover the bars of the gilded cage that has trapped both of their families for years. One Icarus is determined to escape. But his father’s thirst for revenge shows no sign of fading, and soon it may force Icarus to choose: the escape he’s dreamed of, or the boy he’s come to love. Reaching for both could be his greatest triumph—or it could be his downfall.
26th MarchQueer mythology, young adult, MC has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
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Girl Unmasked: How Uncovering My Autism Saved My LifeEmily Katy
Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024 - Girl Unmasked: How Uncovering My Autism Saved My Life by Emily Katy - A white book cover that has a design of purple, red and yellow paint brushstrokes that blurs across the cover from top right corner down towards the bottom left corner. At the top of the cover printed in small black font is a quote from Fern Brady; "Moving and powerful - essential reading". The title, Girl Unmasked, is printed in the centre of the cover with 'Girl' in white font and 'Unmasked' in black script. Beneath the title in smaller text is the subtitle, How Uncovering Autism Saved My Life. At the bottom of the cover is the author's name, Emily Katy.‘Emily’s moving book is a powerful testimony that shines a light on the continued failure of health services to provide any kind of meaningful improvement for autistic people. Should be essential reading for mental health professionals and anyone with autism in their lives’ – FERN BRADY, author of Strong Female Character ‘
This book will bring so many readers self-recognition and comfort.’ – DEVON PRICE, author of Unmasking Autism
To the outside world, Emily looks like a typical girl, with a normal family, living an ordinary life. But inside, Emily does not feel typical, and the older she gets, the more she realises that she is different. As she finally discovers when she is 16, Emily is autistic. Girl Unmasked is the extraordinary story of how she got there – and how she very nearly didn’t.
Still only 21, Emily writes with startling candour about the years leading up to her diagnosis. How books and imagination became her refuge as she sought to escape the increasing anxiety and unbearable stresses of school life; how her OCD almost destroyed her; how a system which did not understand autism let her down; and how she came so close to the edge that she and her family thought she would never survive.
In this simple but powerful memoir, we see how family and friends became her lifeline and how, post-diagnosis, Emily came to understand her authentic self and begin to turn her life around, eventually becoming a mental health nurse with a desire to help others where she herself had once been failed.
Ultimately uplifting, Girl Unmasked is a remarkable insight into what it can be like to be autistic – and shows us that through understanding and embracing difference we can all find ways to thrive.
28th MarchMemoir, young adult, author is autistic.
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The Ha-Ha: A feel-good comedy of friends reunitedTom Shakespeare
Disabled and Neurodivergent Books out in March 2024 - The Ha-Ha: A feel-good comedy of friends reunited by Tom Shakespeare - An illustrated book cover of a country house with gardens and trees, and a blue sky. The house is white with a gray roof and dark green doors and shutters. There is a porch on the front, a ramp for access and small bushes. There are two large trees on the left. In the foreground, there is a pale skinned, dark-haired man sitting in a wheelchair. He wears blue pants and a long-sleeved orange top. His shoes are black, and his socks are orange. Both hands are holding the wheels of the chair. In front of him is a large gray pig which is chewing a piece of paper. There are eight pieces of paper with writing on flying around the pig, some are in the air, and some near the ground. The title, The Ha-Ha, is printed in a large red handwriting font in the sky above the house. In the top left corner there is a tag line; A country house gathering, a stolen manuscript, and a piggy in the middle… In the bottom right corner, there is a quote from Lissa Evans: “A blissful social comedy”. The author name, Tom Shakespeare, is printed at the bottom in black type.Fred Twistleton is about to turn forty. Gathering with his friends to celebrate at a rented stately home, he finally hopes to get together with his college crush, the woman of his dreams, Heather. But Fred is also keen to publish his memoirs, and Heather realises the revelations they contain could threaten her career as a high-flying foreign correspondent.

When the treasured manuscript goes missing under mysterious circumstances, Fred’s at a loss. Could someone have stolen it? Where has the resident pig gone? And will all the group remain friends by the end of the weekend? With burst pipes, sunken kayaks, and suspicious puddings, thank goodness Fred is only going to have one fortieth birthday.
28th MarchDisability Fiction, adult, author is disabled, disabled MC who uses a wheelchair.
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