KARUNA RIAZI’s debut middle grade novel, The Gauntlet, was published to great acclaim. She was raised in New York, the eldest of her siblings in a large family. In addition to pursuing a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Hofstra University, she is also an active online diversity spokesperson, blogger, and publishing intern. Karuna enjoys baking, tea, K-dramas, and writing.
FRANCISCO X. STORK was born in Mexico. He moved to El Paso, Texas, with his adoptive father and mother when he was nine. He attended Spring Hill College, Harvard University, and Columbia Law School. He worked as an attorney for thirty-three years before retiring in 2015. He is married and has two grown children and one beautiful granddaughter. His favorite books are those where the author’s soul touches his. He’s the author of six books for young adults, including the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award–winning The Last Summer of the Death Warriors and the Schneider Family Book Award–winning Marcelo in the Real World, The Way of the Jaguar, Behind the Eyes, Irises, The Memory of Light, and Disappeared, a 2018 Walter Dean Myers Honor Book.
KAYLA WHALEY lives outside Atlanta, Georgia, where she buys way too many books and even more crafting supplies. She is currently pursuing an MFA in creative nonfiction at the University of Tampa, and is a graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop. Whether she’s writing fiction or nonfiction, she tends to focus on disability, sexuality, and the body. Her work has appeared on Catapult, The Toast, The Establishment, and Book Riot; and in Michigan Quarterly Review and Uncanny Magazine, among others venues. She is also a senior editor at Disability in Kidlit.
KRISTINE WYLLYS was born in the north and spent the first half of her life in a city full of college kids and dying automotive plants outside Detroit. These days, she writes and dances around a dusty kitchen in the south with a kid on each hip and the boy she fell in love with at fifteen and calls Betty. Loud, brownish, feminist, geeky, and introverted, Kristine writes gritty contemporary romances featuring girls who like drinking and won’t sit down and shut up and the boys who love them for it.
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Contents
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
DEDICATION
THE LONG ROAD
by Heidi Heilig
BRITT AND THE BIKE GOD
by Kody Keplinger
THE LEAP AND THE FALL
by Kayla Whaley
PER ASPERA AD ASTRA
by Katherine Locke
FOUND OBJECTS
by William Alexander
PLUS ONE
by Karuna Riazi
THE DAY THE DRAGON CAME
by Marieke Nijkamp
CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN
by Francisco X. Stork
DEAR NORA JAMES, YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT LOVE
by Dhonielle Clayton
A PLAY IN MANY PARTS
by Fox Benwell
BALLAD OF WEARY DAUGHTERS
by Kristine Wyllys
MOTHER NATURE’S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER
A CURSE, A KINDNESS
by Corinne Duyvis
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
COPYRIGHT
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
An imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010
“The Long Road” copyright © 2018 by Heidi Heilig
“Britt and the Bike God” copyright © 2018 by Kody Keplinger
“The Leap and the Fall” copyright © 2018 by Kayla Whaley
“Per Aspera Ad Astra” copyright © 2018 by Katherine Locke
“Found Objects” copyright © 2018 by William Alexander
“Plus One” copyright © 2018 by Karuna Riazi
“The Day the Dragon Came” copyright © 2018 by Marieke Nijkamp
“Captain, My Captain” copyright © 2018 by Francisco X. Stork
“Dear Nora James, You Know Nothing About Love” copyright © 2018 by Dhonielle Clayton
“A Play in Many Parts” copyright © 2018 by Fox Benwell
“Ballad of Weary Daughters” copyright © 2018 by Kristine Wyllys
“Mother Nature’s Youngest Daughter” copyright © 2018 by Keah Brown
“A Curse, A Kindness” copyright © 2018 by Corinne Duyvis
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First hardcover edition, 2018
eBook edition, September 2018
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Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Nijkamp, Marieke, author.
Title: Unbroken: 13 stories starring disabled teens / Marieke Nijkamp, [and twelve others].
Description: First edition. | New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018. | Summary: An anthology of stories in various genres, featuring disabled characters and written by disabled creators, ranging from established best selling authors to debut authors.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018003352 | ISBN 9780374306502 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Children’s stories, American. | People with disabilities—Fiction. | CYAC: Short stories. | People with disabilities—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ5.N478 Unb 2018 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018003352
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