More Than the Chair

Ethan Cole is eighteen, a senior in high school, and done with being unseen.

Top marks. A dry sense of humour. A plan: graduate, study architecture, and design buildings where nobody is an afterthought. Ethan also uses a wheelchair — and at his school, that's the only thing some people see. For years he's swallowed the comments, the group chat, the shoves in the hallway. "I'm fine," he says. Until the day he isn't.

More Than the Chair is the story of the day Ethan finally said it out loud — and what happened next: an assembly that went silent, a school that started to change, and a door that finally opened for everyone.

A young adult novel about bullying, friendship, and hope — from Cody.R.L., creator of the short film and podcast of the same name.