Several books are gaining accolades for their portrayal of the disability experience as part of a special set of awards handed out alongside the venerable Newbery and Caldecott Medals.

The American Library Association announced three winners and six honorees of its Schneider Family Book Awards this week.

The awards, given annually, recognize authors and illustrators for books that embody an “artistic expression of the disability experience.” Books are chosen in three categories aimed at different age groups — younger children ages 4 to 8, middle grade students ages 9 to 13 and young adults, considered to be ages 14 to 18.

The winner in the younger children’s category is “A Little Like Magic,” the story of a girl who uses a wheelchair who’s nervous to attend an ice festival. She loses her horse figurine at the event and discovers magic in the cold when she returns to search for the lost item.

Honor books in the young children’s category include “Monster Hands” about best friends who use rhyming ASL to deal with their fear of a monster under the bed, and “You’re SO Amazing!” about a child with limb differences who’s sick of people telling him how great he is for doing ordinary things.

The library association gave the middle grade award to “Popcorn,” which follows the ups and downs of a boy with anxiety and OCD as he navigates picture day at school. The honor books in this category are “Louder Than Hunger” about a young teen with an eating disorder and “Shark Teeth,” about a girl with an unstable home life.

In the young adult division, the winner is “Chronically Dolores,” the story of a girl with a chronic bladder condition who strikes a plan with a new friend with autism to win back her former best friend. Honor books for young adults include “Light Enough to Float” about a teenager dealing with an eating disorder and “On the Bright Side,” which finds a high school student who’s deaf adjusting to a mainstream school with the help of a boy who’s learning about a life-changing diagnosis.

The Schneider Family Book Awards were announced at the American Library Association’s LibLearnX conference in Phoenix. Winners will receive $5,000 and a commemorative plaque at the organization’s annual conference in June.