Today, as a teacher, educator, and researcher, the call for diverse and inclusive books, especially those with thoughtful, intelligent, and genuine representations of disability, is even more important to me. Readers must engage in conversations around depictions of disability, challenging stereotypes or misunderstandings they have about people with disabilities. Students should, and can, be empowered to consider questions around representation, problematizing any perceptions and misconceptions they have around depictions of disability. Ultimately, as readers they can create with their teachers a more complex understanding that is separate from and challenges the societal tendency to objectify people with disabilities. The purpose of this article is to present a single case study based on a literature circle comprised of fifth graders and consider the representations of deafness the students experience while reading the graphic novel memoir "El Deafo" by Cece Bell.