CP/WP Needed for YA Historical Fiction on the Disability Rights Movement (1977)

[Chelsey Blair Kendig]

Eighteen-year-old Darcy uses a wheelchair, sure, but she goes to a regular—well, private—school, and it’s not a big deal. When her brilliant journalism teacher gives her a flyer for an upcoming protest, she only goes because it’ll be a good piece to have in her profile when she starts J-school next year. But as she gets swept up in a month-long sit-in, she discovers that not only does she have more in common with the people around her than she thought, if this action doesn’t succeed, the prestigious university that accepted her will have no incentive to make sure she can get in the door.

This is book I finished around 2020. Then, 2020 happened, and I couldn’t imagine itrying to put it out in that world, when it felt like rights were going backward. It still feels that way, but I realized that’s why I want to work on it again. This also ties into my most recent read, The Lilac People by Milo Todd, about the strives trans rights had made in Weimar, Germany.