If you've seen the movie, you may still want to check out this heart-wrenching novel about a man with quadriplegia, the companion his parents hired, and the importance of choosing the life you want. The ending is the same, but there's much they didn't include in the movie. 

Like its author, the heroine of this darkly romantic novel, Shea, is deaf. Sometimes, when Shea has batteries, she uses hearing aids. At other times, she takes them out to avoid the lure of the voices in the Gravewood. Sinister and lovely, the antagonist/love interest is more than he first appears. This is the first book in a duology.

Hard of hearing and deaf representation can be found in this back and forth prose and pictures book by the author and illustrator of "The Invention of Hugo Cabret." 

If you could go from blind to seeing, what would you expect? How would your life change? 

Scientists give a young man who is developmentally disabled the opportunity to shed his hinderances and become "smart." The consequences are painful, isolating, and thought-provoking. 

Two teenagers with cystic fibrosis—one careful with her health and waiting for new lungs, the other more devil-may-care and also battling C. diff—become friends, then something more. As much more as a couple of kids can be when what they have most in common means they can’t touch. A love story, but not a romance.