2008 Winner – Picture Book Award

Title: Kami and the Yaks
Author: Andrea Stenn Strye
Illustrator: Bert Dodson
Publisher: Bay Otter Press

Kami, a young, deaf Sherpa boy, sets off on his own to find his family's missing yaks and finds one of them caught between the rocks; but when he runs home to get help from his family, he has trouble at first being understood.

2008 Winner – Middle School Award

Title: Reaching for Sun
Author: Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books

Josie, who lives with her mother and grandmother and has cerebral palsy, befriends a boy who moves into one of the rich houses behind her old farmhouse.

2008 Winner – Teen Book Award

Title: Hurt Go Happy
Author: Ginny Rorby
Publisher: Starscape

Thirteen-year-old Joey Willis has been deaf since age six, but her mother has refused to let her learn sign language, leaving Joey struggling to connect with those around her until she meets Dr. Charles Mansell and his baby chimpanzee, who secretly teach Joey how to sign.

The Schneider Family Book Awards

The Schneider Family Book Awards honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.