Diverse and inclusive books

The true story of one girl's journey growing up autistic - and the challenges she faced in the 'normal' world.

A little boy with autism loses his favourite teddy bear.

A picture book which looks at life through the eyes of a four-year-old girl with autism.

A young girl campaigns for historic wrongs to be righted, whilst also dealing with her autism.

A young boy struggles to help his autistic brother when their mother becomes ill

Cora, a young autistic girl befriends Adrien, a boy with ADHD, and they begin to uncover dark secrets at his father's high-tech business, the Pomegranate Institute.

A boy on the autism spectrum searches for a classmate that he can be friends with.

A picture book which looks at life through the eyes of two little girls with autism and the way that the two friends are both similar and unique in their own ways.

A young autistic boy called Leo finds it hard to understand the world, until he connects with an octopus called Maya and begins to learn about friendship.

A boy forms an unusual friendship with a polar bear who helps him deal with his feelings about his younger brother who is autistic.

Frankie is different from her peers but she's not sure why, so she sets off in search of her dad in the hope that he has the answers.

A picture book story which explains how a young boy with Asperger's thinks and feels.

Inspired by E. Nesbit's classic 'The Railway Children', a young girl gets involved with the local steam railway near her new home but can't can't help worrying that her missing father isn't OK.

A young autistic girl is helped to find a way of expressing herself through singing by her music teacher.

A guide to understanding and coping with the pressures of growing up through scientific principles.

Explains in simple terms what autism is and how it affects people who have this condition.

A ten-year-old girl gets a life-changing diagnosis just as she's about to begin her last year in primary school.

Children with a variety of differences tell us about their conditions, how it affects them, and how others can help them on a day-to-day basis.

Elle sets out to retrieve the stolen Infinity-Glass and clear the name of her friend MC2, who's been arrested for stealing it.

A young autistic girl discovers that sorting people in the way she sorts other things is really hard but not necessarily a bad thing.

A young boy with a stammer dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian.

A girl has fantastic adventure when her best friends pimps up her wheelchair to be a supercar.

In a near future, a boy coming to terms with losing his hand in an accident discovers a robot in lost property at the airport and rescues him from destruction

When sponsorship money collected for Ade's new sports wheelchair is stolen, Cyborg Cat and the parsons Road gang set about catching the thief.

Introduces young children to skin, how it protects our bodies, and the wide variety of shades it comes in.

A nine-year-old girl comes to terms with the fact that her failing eyesight means that she will eventually go blind.

A trained hearing dog is separated from his young owner and embarks upon a long journey to be reunited with him.

A look at the full life that Susan leads, a little girl who just happens to be disabled.

Katy's life changes in dramatic and unexpected ways after a serious accident.

A one-legged little boy tired of being asked the same question repeatedly and his angry outburst makes his new friends realise that he's so much more than the number of limbs he has.

A young wheelchair user tells all the fun things that he and his pet dragon get up to and like to do together.

A young girl deals with problems in her new life when her mum, who has achondroplasia, moves to a new home with her and her teenage sister.

A black bird inviting other animals to his birthday party doesn't understand the signs they use to respond

Toby and Clemmie never let illness and disability get in the way of fun even when Clemmie has to go into hospital

The autistic sister in this sibling pair is non-verbal, but she finds plenty of ways to communicate and have fun with her brother.

Dylan feels excluded when his hearing deteriorates but slowly learns to cope with his disability, and becomes a hero after a near tragedy at the fair

A boy has fun taking part in his school sports day as he dreams that he and his friends are competing in world class sporting events.

A little girl who has trouble making connections with other children decides to try making friends out of craft materials.

Three short stories about Mia and her Uncle Robbie, who is in a wheelchair and can perform a range of magic tricks

Two sisters play their favourite unicorn game but their fun is ruined by their bossy neighbour who wants to join in

Two very different teenagers, one with ADHD, the other with the need to be perfect, learn to appreciate each other when their families blend.

Three teenagers are bought together on a suicide-pact website, but their growing friendship gives them the strength to see that there are other ways out of their personal issues.

A boy discovers a terrorist plot while flying his drone around the Lake District countryside.

A boy with Tourette's makes a wish list of things that he must do when he thinks he hears a doctor telling his mother he will die by March.

A teen girl unable to communicate due to cerebral palsy is the only witness to a murder

An unlikely friendship blossoms between a school bully and a Downs Syndrome boy who wants to find his estranged father.

A blind 16 year old girl takes her younger brother to New York to find their missing father.

A 12-year-old Downs Syndrome girl experiences upheaval as her parents' strawberry farm goes into financial difficulty and her sister comes out as being a lesbian.

Set in a mythological Scotland, three young people find themselves the only survivors when their clan is attacked by warriors and they are forced to leave their home island of Skye

A young tech-savvy deaf girl, frustrated with her peers, sets about finding a way to help a whale who cannot communicate with other whales.

A 12 year old genius comes to terms with the sudden death of her adoptive parents.

Two teenagers fall in love under unusual circumstances.

A modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast.

A girl with cerebral palsy deals with starting secondary school and starring in the school play.

A blind girl finds her world rocked when her ex-boyfriend who broke her heart starts at her school.

A graphic novel memoir about a girl growing up with a hearing impairment and how she copes with the trials of family life, friendship, and middle school.

Two teen boys with life-threatening health problems strike up a friendship via letters and eventually one learns from the other how they are connected by their past.

In Nazi Germany, a seventeen-year-old girl with a stutter becomes part of the test pilot program and realises she can use her skills to spy for the Allies.

A girl experiencing independence for the first time is reluctant to start a relationship with a boy at her college.

Two music students are placed together to play a duet for their school concert and bond over their nerves about applying for the prestigious Juilliard School.

A boy must make a radical medical decision.

Anna and her family take a trip to the village where her grandparents were born

A youth football team need to work together to improve their results

A little girl carrying fruit in a basket on her head gradually loses the fruits during her walk as different animals take them

A group of friends wanders out into the meadow to play a game of hide-and-seek on a beautiful summer's afternoon.

When Zoe gets a letter on her 12th birthday from the prisoner father she's never met, she begins to investigate his case further but getting to the truth proves harder than she thought.

Three stories about Tola, a young girl Nigerian who, though small, is very determined.

When his family emigrate from China to Australia, 11-year-old Jingwen struggles to adjust to his new home, an alien language, and coping with his grief over the death of his father who died in a car crash just before his 10th birthday.

A young girl makes a new friend and regains her confidence as she tries to come to terms with a traumatic event

Two sisters take it upon themselves to investigate the murder of one of the fellow residents of their housing estate

A young girl celebrates the beauty and significance of her older sister's decision to wear the hijab.

A little girl has to think fast to save her animal friends when a monster in the woods tries to make them into soup.

A girl has to save her school when the new robot vending machines go awry.

A little girl who has trouble making connections with other children decides to try making friends out of craft materials.

The true story of one girl's journey growing up autistic - and the challenges she faced in the 'normal' world.

A young Chinese girl now living in America works hard to help her parents make enough money to live but harbours dreams to become a writer.

Follow a young girl in a garden as she plants seeds and shares the produce with her friends

When Aunty Bindi's husband-to-be is kidnapped the day before the wedding, it's up to niece and bridesmaid Anisha to solve the mystery and save the day.

When Leo sees his name inscribed in a cathedral, he vows to discover who his namesake is; in doing so, he illuminates a lost history of war heroes overlooked because of their race.

A little boy living in Birmingham shares his day in the city.

Helen moves to London to live with her dad and the rest of her family, who just happen to be the Greek gods living incognito on Earth.

A Muslim boy and white girl bond over their love of drawing comic book art, but the leader of his gang of friends threatens to spoil this happiness.

Five friends, sold into prostitution as children go on the run for their freedom after one accidentally kills a man.

An Indonesian boy wonders if he has special powers like his hero, Spider-Man, after he survives an undersea mining accident similar to that which killed his dad.

A teenage girl finds herself falling apart following the disappearance of her older brother

A sixteen-year-old girl is offered a choice between being executed for being a demon or leaving everything she knows to being a new life as a secret warrior.

A love story about not only a romantic relationship but how a girl finds herself and falls in love with who she really is.

Things get very chaotic very quickly for a young teenager the day when his 'phone breaks one morning before school.

A seventeen-year-old drug dealer discovers that he's a father and all his priorities change, bringing a whole new set of challenges.

A boy is visited by ghosts of family and friends he knew as he takes the lift down from his family's flat to exact revenge on the person who shot his brother dead in a gangland attack.

A young boy who finds himself caught up with a local gang finds himself imprisoned on a murder charge when a policeman is fatally shot. Companion volume to Dear Martin

After a sixteen-year-old American boy is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison, he struggles to find a way to keep true to himself.

Boy, Everywhere chronicles the harrowing journey taken by Sami and his family from privilege to poverty, across countries and continents, from a comfortable life in Damascus, via a smuggler's den in Turkey, to a prison in Manchester.

Two children must risk everything to escape their fate and find the impossible...

Hello, Niveus High. It's me. Who am I? That's not important. All you need to know is... I'm here to divide and conquer. - Aces

An anthology of stories and poetry by LGBTQ+ YA authors and illustrators.

A girl tries to escape the opressively strict and abusive family life she experiences dominated by her alcoholic father.

A young African American questions her family's and her own values during the Los Angeles riots of 1992 after the beating of Rodney King at the hands of LAPD officers.

A boy travels with his drug-addicted mother and his younger sister to the deep South to see his convict father.

A teenage girl in foster care struggles with her issues with trust and rejection as her current foster family and a boy at school try to break through her self-defences.