Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
by Alice Wong
Nonfiction · ages 10–14 · grades 5–9 · 820L · 2022
Why we'd hand it over
A rare, unsentimental disability memoir for older middle-graders—Wong writes as a peer rather than a sage, and the specificity about medical trauma and community care feels both honest and age-appropriate for kids who need to see themselves reflected.