Honor's Staff Picks
Ryan O'Connell is a gay man with cerebral palsy. These days, he is an LGBTQ+ rights and disability rights activist, but he wasn't always out and proud. Read his fantastically humorous, wonderfully touching autobiography, before catching his autobigraphical Netflix series Special.
The first in a series by Brigid Kemmerer, this young adult novel follows Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall who has been cursed to repeat the fall of his eighteenth year over and over again unless he can make a girl fall in love with him. Harper, a girl with cerebral palsy who lives in Washington, DC, becomes involved in Rhen's curse when she attempts to save a stranger on the streets.
Eleven-year-old Melody has cerebral palsy, and because of this, can't walk, talk, or write. Everyone around her is determined to dismiss her as mentally challenged, but she refuses to let them define her any longer.
In the wake of the loss of his family, Ben becomes a caregiver for nineteen-year-old Trevor, who has Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Throughout this fiercely honest and touching novel, their relationship grows from one of distance and resentment to compassion and understanding. Check out the novel based on the movie starring Paul Rudd.
