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Disability in Kidlit discusses the portrayal of disability in MG and YA fiction. We review books featuring major disabled characters, discuss tropes, and offer advice to authors wanting to include...

"You're really pretty for someone in a wheel chair." As hard as it is for some to believe, YA novels are not all supernatural romance books about sparkly vampires or good vs evil, save-the-world-by-finding-the-chosen-one-and-watching-him/her/it uncover-special-powers-intended-to-overcome-the-forces-of-darkness novels. Okay, maybe lots of them fall into these categories, and, if we're honest, we all have our favorites among them....

Writer Carly Okyle was born with cerebral palsy-a movement disorder-in 1985. She writes of how growing up, she wasn't exposed to disabled characters in books and television and how the media landscape has changed over time, with disability hitting the mainstream, including some worthy book titles.

Today we welcome Sarah Heacox, an aspiring MG and YA author from Los Angeles. If she's not skiing or writing or running, she might be baking cupcakes or sending query letters. She's currently polishing a MG novel about an action-adventure boy in a wheelchair and his high speed antics at summer camp, on the basketball court, and out on the slopes.