El Deafo

We are moving to narratives that highlight how young protagonists navigate internal and external pressures.

And we start with an absolute classic in the making, El Deafo by Cece Bell, which won the Judy Lopez Memorial Award in 2015.

A phenomenal book.

It's an autobiographical book that follows her childhood and her illness-acquired deafness.

Oh, that's a great pairing.

It is.

Exploring sensory alteration through a visual medium like El Deafo is incredibly effective for young minds.

Now moving from physical challenges to the heavy weight of history and isolation, we have Pemmican Wars, which is volume one of the A Girl Called Echo series.