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.
![Book cover of Forever is now](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2024/0ad5b2f49513f475285a681ac1d2ed59.jpg?itok=HsBh_G0v)
![Book cover for The Words We Keep](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2023/3115aa6b5d7abbfc286ca56f18179e67.jpg?itok=HQvfuX2n)
![Book cover for The Words in My Hands](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2023/33af6e9ce84fea3452f6ed6adfc4ae40.jpg?itok=JyLiArAB)
![Book cover for This is My Brain in Love](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2021/d1295d6f7669a0878d8b00ae926b9ee4.jpg?itok=dZYzcG1B)
![Book cover for Cursed](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/fcc4a49cda0725bb5a7043614d91ec06_1.jpg?itok=Qcl41vnN)
![Book cover for Anger is a Gift](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/bd01e191f7436787ec10698ad62e5a9e.jpg?itok=K4YkEhpU)
![Book cover for You're Welcome, Universe](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/b8e30c1a888978dfbce93c1e40e90a8c.jpg?itok=Y3KhBTe1)
You're Welcome, Universe
When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a 'mainstream' school in the suburbs, where she’s treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art. Julia paints anywhere she can, eager to claim some turf of her own. But Julia soon learns that she might not be the only vandal in town. Someone is adding to her tags, making them better, showing off—and showing Julia up in the process. She expected her art might get painted over by cops. But she never imagined getting dragged into a full-blown graffiti war.
![Book cover for When We Collided](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/5cf9ae8c2218ddc897af54c0e8abea47.jpg?itok=7KF9_Aqz)
![Book cover for The unlikely hero of room 13B](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/054091c2a639555e1bef8776dc714984.jpg?itok=l-C6wbvY)
![Book cover for Girls Like Us](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/ab6f4c30fc49e7ac64b8222a9dfdf25e.jpg?itok=uU_55iqU)
![Book cover for Rose Under Fire](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/rose-under-fire.jpg?itok=IF3WkYsc)
Rose Under Fire
In this companion book to Code Name Verity, we follow the story of Rose, an 18-year-old American poet and pilot, who decides to join the war effort by joining the British ATA. Things take a turn for the worse when she is captured by the Germans and imprisoned at Ravensbruck concentration camp. Once again, Wein manages to beautifully tell a World War II story from an unusual perspective. This book is highly recommended to young adults and adults alike.
![Book cover for Somebody Please Tell Me Who I Am](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/0b93fc8db90510cd9a76489d127cc39c.jpg?itok=Iv7zxTY4)
![Book cover for The Running Dream](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2022/running-dream.jpg?itok=0CgOoXTP)
The Running Dream
When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.
![Book cover for Five Flavors of Dumb](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/1cee5d5c4069605673e7bbe7c6f1eb05.jpg?itok=Bl2F3bZb)
![Book cover for Marcelo in the real world](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/5886350c02e4042a58335d6db783813a.jpg?itok=JSTF-Hhy)
![Book cover for Jerk, California](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/d0c75ec71d0ff7a0bf365d26efdb1df1.jpg?itok=GKKKI6ME)
![Book cover for Hurt Go Happy](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/119c3252139c049a0e3dc731b3a182bf.jpg?itok=WQoZavCJ)
![Book cover for Small Steps](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/f29f072ba360f0e335233382d9a9fa5b.jpg?itok=cOkJxXUC)
![Book cover for Under the wolf, under the dog](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/16e332323e4fa067d2878258375dfc76.jpg?itok=ymP5rh3I)
![Book cover for My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/4380f3fba7a63614f3fa0b7d1b95b329.jpg?itok=HJ7qBLRA)
My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir
In seventh grade, the author suffered anxiety attacks as she struggled to keep up in her classes, to remember two locker combinations, and to deal with new teachers, both before and after she was diagnosed with dyscalculia, a math-related learning disability.
![Book cover for Things Not Seen](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/0c21d193f11892d64baf76c971e2d580.jpg?itok=D6dPBjEI)