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Disability visibility : 17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults / edited by Alice Wong.

Wong, Alice, 1974- (editor.).

Summary:

"A young adult adaptation of Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593381670
  • ISBN: 059338167X
  • ISBN: 9780593381687
  • ISBN: 0593381688
  • Physical Description: xviii, 139 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, 2021.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"This work is based on Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, introduction and compilation copyright © 2020 by Alice Wong, published in paperback by Vintage Books, an division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction by Alice Wong -- Part 1: Being -- If you can't fast, give / by Maysoon Zayid -- There's a mathematical equation that proves I'm ugly - or so I learned in my seventh-grade art class / by Ariel Henley -- When you are waiting to be healed / by June Eric-Udorie -- Isolation of being deaf in prison / by Jeremy Woody, as told to Christie Thompson -- Part 2 : Becoming -- We can't go back / by Ricardo T. Thornton Sr. -- Guide dogs don't lead blind people. We wander as one / by Haben Girma -- Canfei to Canji: The freedom of being loud / by Sandy Ho -- Nurturing Black disabled joy / by Keah Brown -- Selma Blair became a disabled icon overnight / by Zipporah Arielle -- Part 3 : Doing -- So. Not. Broken. / by Alice Sheppard -- Incontinence is a public health issue - and we need to talk about it / by Mari Ramsawakh -- Falling/burning: Being a bipolar creator / by Shoshana Kessock -- Gaining power through communication access / by Lateef McLeod -- Part 4 : Connecting -- Fearless Benjamin Lay: Activist, abolitionist, dwarf person / by Eugene Grant -- Love means never having to say...anything / by Jamison Hill -- On the ancestral plane: Crip hand-me-downs and the legacy of our movements / by Stacey Milbern -- Beauty of spaces created for and by disabled people / by S. E. Smith.
Target Audience Note:
Ages 12 up Delacorte Press.
1050L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.6 4 516089.
Subject:
People with disabilities > United States > Biography.
People with disabilities > United States > Social conditions.
Genre:
Essays.
Biographies.
Young adult literature.

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  • 41 of 41 copies available at NC Cardinal.
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