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2021 Schneider Family Book Award

January 27, 2021 | Boydl
Boys and girls holding hands encircling a small world with braille at bottom describing image

Schneider Family Book Awards honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.
Click here for the Schneider Family Book Award Manual (PDF)
Bibliography of Children's Books about the Disability Experience (pdf)

Younger Children Winner

I talk like a river by 1978- Jordan Scott

Younger Children Honor Books

All the way to the top : how one girl's fight for Americans with disabilities changed everything by Annette Bay Pimentel
Itzhak [electronic resource] : A boy who loved the violin. by Tracy Newman

Middle Grade Winner

Show me a sign by Ann Clare LeZotte

Middle Grade Honor Books

Get a grip, Vivy Cohen! by Sarah Kapit
When stars are scattered by artist Victoria Jamieson
Also available in: e-book | audiobook

Teen Winner

This is my brain in love by 1976- I. W. Gregorio
Also available in: e-book