Perspectives on Disability audiobooks

I Fight, You Fight

By: Alex Noble

Narrated by: Alex Noble

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiring story from 2025 NSW Young Australian of the Year Nominee, Alex Noble, whose wisdom and strength can teach us all how to live life to the fullest, no matter what it throws at us.

Sixteen-year-old Alex Noble was a high school rugby star with a promising sporting career ahead of him when an on-field injury left him fighting for his... Read more

Farther Than the Moon

By: Lindsay Lackey

Narrated by: Josh Wichard

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From award-winning author Lindsay Lackey comes Farther Than the Moon, a heartfelt story about a boy who wants to become an astronaut, but wonders if his dreams can include his brother with disabilities, perfect for fans of We Dream of Space and Song for a Whale.

All thirteen-year-old Houston Stewart has ever wanted is to become an astronaut. His... Read more

Planet Earth Is Blue

By: Nicole Panteleakos

Narrated by: Dylan Moore

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Tender and illuminating. A beautiful debut." --Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal-winning author of When You Reach Me

A heartrending and hopeful debut novel about a nonverbal girl and her passion for space exploration, for fans of See You in the Cosmos, Mockingbird, and The Thing About Jellyfish.

Twelve-year-old Nova is eagerly awaiting the launch of... Read more

Hank Zipzer #1: Niagara Falls, Or Does It?

By: Henry Winkler & Lin Oliver

Narrated by: Henry Winkler

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the true life experiences of Henry Winkler, whose undiagnosed dyslexia made him a classic childhood underachiever, the Hank Zipzer series is about the high-spirited and funny adventures of a boy with learning differences. 

It's science project time in Ms. Adolf's class. This is good news and bad news for Hank-he loves science, but he... Read more

Hank Zipzer #4: The Zippity Zinger

By: Henry Winkler & Lin Oliver

Narrated by: Henry Winkler

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Hank LOVES baseball. L-O-V-E-S it! Unfortunately, though, he's not very good at the game. So everyone is surprised--including Hank himself--when Hank throws a zinger pitch at a practice for P.S. 87's annual School Olympiad baseball game. Hank knows how he pitched the "Zippity Zinger"--it must have happened because he accidentally wore his... Read more

Colin Fischer

By: Ashley Edward Miller & Zack Stentz

Narrated by: Jesse Eisenberg

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Encyclopedia Brown from the screenwriting duo behind X-Men: First Class and Thor!

Colin Fischer cannot stand to be touched. He does not like the color blue. He needs index cards to recognize facial expressions. But Colin is Wayne Connelly's best--and only--hope of proving his innocence after Wayne is accused of blowing up a birthday cake in the... Read more

Fish in a Tree

By: Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the beloved One for the Murphys gives listeners an emotionally-charged, uplifting novel that will speak to anyone who’s ever thought there was something wrong with them because they didn’t fit in.
 
“Everybody is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing it is... Read more

Blind

By: Rachel DeWoskin

Narrated by: Annalie Gernert

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

When Emma Sasha Silver loses her eyesight in a nightmare accident, she must relearn everything from walking across the street to recognizing her own sisters to imagining colors. One of seven children, Emma used to be the invisible kid, but now it seems everyone is watching her. And just as she’s about to start high school and try to recover her... Read more

Crashing Through

By: Robert Kurson

Narrated by: Doug Ordunio

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Blinded at age three, Mike May defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision.

Then, in 1999, a chance encounter brought startling news: a revolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore May’s... Read more

Look Me in the Eye

By: John Elder Robison

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits–an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes–had earned him the label “social deviant.” No guidance came from his mother or his father. It was no wonder he... Read more

We've Got Issues

By: Judith Warner

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Are parents and physicians too quick to prescribe medication to control our children’s behavior? Are we using drugs to excuse inept parents who can’t raise their children properly?

Judith Warner sparked a national debate on how women and society view motherhood with her previous book Perfect Madness.We’ve Got Issues will generate the same kind of... Read more

Man From the Sky

By: Avi

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Spending the summer with his grandparents in the Pennsylvania countryside is pure joy for young Jamie. There, he fills his days with looking up at the sky, watching the clouds make dragons and knights. There, it doesn't matter that he can't read. The special school he attends is far away. But one afternoon, when Jamie sees a man parachute down... Read more

The Reason I Jump

By: Naoki Higashida

Narrated by: Tom Picasso

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

You' ve never read a book like The Reason I Jump. Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought... Read more

Absolutely Almost

By: Lisa Graff

Narrated by: Noah Galvin

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Albie has never been the smartest kid in his class. He has never been the tallest. Or the best at gym. Or the greatest artist. Or the most musical. In fact, Albie has a long list of the things he's not very good at. And his parents keep reminding him of those things all the time. . . even when it's just by accident. But then Albie gets a new... Read more

The Still Point of the Turning World

By: Emily Rapp

Narrated by: Ali Ahn

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Like all mothers, Emily Rapp had ambitious plans for her first and only child, Ronan. He would be smart, loyal, physically fearless, and level-headed, but fun. He would be good at crossword puzzles like his father. He would be an avid skier like his mother. Rapp would speak to him in foreign languages and give him the best education. But all of... Read more

Life, Animated

By: Ron Suskind

Narrated by: Ron Suskind & Owen Suskind

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. "A fantasy? A nightmare?" This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen... Read more

Bite Me

By: Ally Hilfiger

Narrated by: Ally Hilfiger

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Ally was at a breaking point when she woke up in a psych ward at the age of eighteen. She couldn't put a sentence together, let alone take a shower, eat a meal, or pick up a phone. What had gone wrong? In recent years, she had produced a feature film, a popular reality show for a major network, and had acted in an off-Broadway play. But now,... Read more

Late-Talking Children

By: Stephen M. Camarata

Narrated by: Dana Hickox

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

When children are late in hitting developmental milestones, parents worry. And no delay causes more parental anxiety than late talking, which is associated in many parents' minds with such serious conditions as autism and severe intellectual disability. In fact, as children's speech expert Stephen Camarata points out in this enlightening book,... Read more

NeuroTribes

By: Steve Silberman

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 18 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This New York Times bestseller upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently.What is autism: a lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is both... Read more

Just My Luck

By: Cammie McGovern

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Critically acclaimed author Cammie McGovern's powerful and heartwarming middle grade novel will appeal to readers who loved R. J. Palacio's Wonder, Holly Sloan's Counting by 7s, and Lynda Mullaly Hunt's Fish in a Tree. ""This brave story, told with wry humor, is inspirational,"" raved Ann M. Martin, New York Times bestselling author of Rain... Read more

Raising Your Spirited Child, Third Edition

By: Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Including real life stories, this newly revised third edition of the award-winning bestseller—voted one of the top twenty parenting books—provides parents with the most up-to-date research, effective discipline tips, and practical strategies for raising spirited children.Do you ever wonder why your child acts the way he or she does? Are you at a... Read more

The Nest

By: Kenneth Oppel

Narrated by: Gibson Frazier

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Nest leaves a lasting mark on the memory.” —The New York Times Book Review

Steve just wants to save his baby brother—but what will he lose in the bargain? Kenneth Oppel’s (Silverwing, The Boundless) haunting gothic tale for fans of Coraline, is one of the most acclaimed books of the year, receiving six starred reviews. Illustrations from... Read more

Silence

By: Deborah Lytton

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel & Charlie Thurston

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Stella was born to sing. Someday Broadway. But everything changes when a tragic accident renders her deaf; she cannot hear, much less sing. Trapped in a strange new world of total silence, she must face not only the loss of her friends, her hopes, and her voice but also the loss of her identity and her life’s purpose. Who is she if she’s not a... Read more

The Underdogs

By: Melissa Fay Greene

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene comes a profound and surprising account of dogs on the front lines of rescuing both children and adults from the trenches of grief, emotional, physical, and cognitive disability, and post-traumatic stress disorder.The Underdogs tells the story of Karen Shirk, felled at age twenty-four... Read more