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Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Charlie, twelve, who has autism and obsessive compulsive disorder, must endure a cross-country trip with his siblings and a strange babysitter to visit their father, who will undergo brain surgery.
Author
Publisher
Kar-Ben Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Although Jacob finds his autistic brother, Nathan, annoying, he gets angry at a new neighbor who calls Nathan weird, but their mothers help the boys get along with a special Hanukkah observance.
Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Lizzie explains what it's like to have Asperger's Syndrome, including how she has a special talent for blending in with her friends, how she gets really tired after being at school all day, how she worries about making mistakes, and how she finds it hard to understand how she is feeling"--
Author
Publisher
Astra Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
An autistic nonbinary eighteen-year-old moves to a new town and school with the support of their loving father and finds friends in an LGBTQ-plus club, but they all must come together to solve the decades-old murder of a teenage boy and confront the demons lurking in Sam's past.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
A heartrending and hopeful debut novel about a nonverbal girl and her passion for space exploration, for fans of See You in the Cosmos, Mockingbird, and The Thing About Jellyfish.Twelve-year-old Nova is eagerly awaiting the launch of the space shuttle Challenger--it's the first time a teacher is going into space, and kids across America will watch the event on live TV in their classrooms. Nova and her big sister, Bridget, share a love of astronomy...
8) Julia
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Meet your favorite Sesame Street friends in this board book starring Julia, a muppet with autism!"--
"Meet your favorite Sesame Street friends in this adorable photographic board book starring Julia, a muppet with autism! Elmo's friend Julia is the star of this colorful, photographic board book. Babies and toddlers will love turning the sturdy pages to find out what Julia--a muppet with autism--likes to do with her family, her puppy, and her Sesame...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Return to Al Capone's Alcatraz with Newbery Honor-winning author Gennifer Choldenko in this charming addition to the beloved series about the son of a prison guard. Moose Flanagan lives on a famous island in California: Alcatraz, home to some of the most dangerous prisoners in the United States in the 1930s. It's the summer before he starts high school, and Moose is going to play a lot of baseball and win a spot on the high school team. But he still...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Green loves his devoted older brother, Cedar, a popular basketball star, but that doesn't mean he wants to follow in his footsteps. He doesn't really care about sports or making friends. Still, eventually Green caves to pressure to try out for the basketball team. He may be tall like Cedar, but he's nowhere near as skilled. And when a confrontation with the coach spurs Green to flee the court, his flight coincides with a priceless...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A nerdy high schooler learns to embrace his main-character energy in this witty and heart-healing ode to movie tropes, meet-cutes, and LGBTQ+ love. Photographer and film buff Daniel Sanchez learned a long time ago that the only way to get by in an allistic world is to mask his autism and follow the script. Which means he knows that boisterous, buff, and beautiful soccer superstars like his best friend, Mona Sinclair, shouldn't be wasting time hanging...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
The award-winning team who brought us MY BROTHER CHARLIE present a companion book that celebrates the power of water for those who have autism. Like many kids on the autism spectrum, Charlie finds solace and empowerment in pools, ponds, sprinklers, visiting the aquarium, and swimming in the ocean. Through his adventures and discoveries, he shows the world that even though he has autism, autism doesn’t have him. In this beautiful ode to the love...
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