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Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today by Alice Wong

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im_thehbic's review against another edition

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5.0

Quick read with powerful stories from the disabled community.

suspiciouspinecone's review against another edition

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emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

This is a great way to get a little insight into what it means to be disabled. Very informative, with a few really well written essays. However, it wasn't an overall fantastically written book.

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naomi_hyde's review against another edition

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informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

Really fantastic collection of essays and stories from people with a wide range of disabilities. Naturally, some chapters were more engaging and better written than others, but each story was insightful and opened my eyes to experiences I hadn't considered or thought very deeply about before.

I do wish the essays had been longer - I accidentally picked up the 'adapted for young adults' version from the library without realising, so I assume some essays may have been cut down, but I did feel this caused some stories to lack the depth and detail that I expected.

Overall, a great collection of stories that was quick to read but very enlightening and thought-provoking.

libraryjen's review against another edition

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emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

Thought-provoking and powerful, these seventeen essays will make you think about a perspective that you might not have considered before. A quick read that will stay with you. Definitely recommended.

embe94's review against another edition

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5.0

This is a great nonfiction text I can share with my students to see more stories of disabled people. As any disabled person knows (and hopefully the ablebodied people do too) there’s not a lot of options for texts with a disabled perspective, nonfiction especially. I enjoyed reading the different perspectives of people with different disabilities from my own and I enjoyed that some focused on sharing the discrimination and some focused on living their lives as an act of joyful protest.