We Want to go to School! by Maryann Cocca-Leffler and Janine Leffler - ADVISABLE

 We Want to go to School! The fight for disability rights by Maryann Cocca-Leffler and Janine Leffler. NON-FICTION PICTURE BOOK. Albert Whitman, 2021. $17. 9780807535189 

BUYING ADVISORY: EL, MS, HS - ADVISABLE 

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE 

As recently as the 1970’s, children in the United States with disabilities were rarely allowed inside schools, or in regular classrooms. Then a group of families in in the District of Columbia filed a class action law suit against their school district, demanding the right for their disabled children to attend school. 

Cocca-Leffler and her daughter Janine, born with cerebral palsy, give us an excellent, easy to understand look at one of the two landmark cases that changed the lives of children in the U.S. forever. I didn’t know that the seven families that started the original court case were all Black, the parents having been affected by Brown vs Board of Education. Any easy purchase for any school that covers the topic. 

Cindy, Library Teacher, MLS