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The First Thing About You
Chaz Hayden, 2022
CALL NO...: 12-BOO
TYPE......: Book
ACCESS....: SEE BELOW
A YA novel whose narrator, Harris, has spinal muscular atrophy and uses a powered wheelchair as he navigates a new school, a first crush, and a complicated new nurse. Author Chaz Hayden has SMA and uses a powered wheelchair, and writes Harris with unsentimental honesty.
Disabled VoiceFictionYoung Adult
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Available at many public libraries and from Candlewick Press. Ebook and audiobook available.