We Want to Go to School!: The Fight for Disability Rights

We Want to Go to School!: The Fight for Disability Rights

A Junior Library Guild Selection February 2022

The true story of the people who helped make every public school a more inclusive place. There was a time in the United States when millions of children w…

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