Abstract
11-year-old Melody Brooks has cerebral palsy, which “limits her body, but not her mind”. Cece Bell has been deaf since the age of 4, when she contracted meningitis. Jamal is 13, and has to survive not only his epileptic fits, but also the war-torn country in which he lives. 16-year-old Laureth Peak is trying to find her missing father—and she's blind. The protagonists of these four very different young adult novels—Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper, El Deafo by Cece Bell, The Ghosts & Jamal by Bridget Blankley, and She is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgwick, respectively—are trying to navigate an array of challenges. Importantly, what they share is a refusal to be defined by what can be considered disabilities. Indeed, in many of these books, each character's supposed limitation is also what saves the day.
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