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Each spring, at the start of baseball season, fourth-graders at my school connect with Shorty, a character from Ken Mochizuki’s book Baseball Saved Us. Shorty’s a Japanese-American child who plays baseball on a makeshift field in an internment camp during World War II. Mochizuki’s consummate read-aloud story encourages a fired-up discussion in the library. Students talk about the inequities and intolerances foisted on kids and adults alike. It’s the kind of lesson that I thoroughly enjoy teaching, year after year.

In fiction, children with disabilities are often still segregated, labeled, lonely and lost. These titles will help bring your school’s library into the age of inclusion.

Jackie Brown prided herself on teaching her students about disabilities. But could she confront her own feelings about her mother and polio?

Do children's books distort the truth of Helen Keller's life?

A school for the deaf celebrates Dia de los Muertos.

A Louisiana Children's Museum exhibit takes the "dis" out of disability.

Booming Las Vegas schools struggle to make a place for everyone.