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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
In Classroom Six, second left down the hall, Henry has been on the lookout for a friend. A friend who shares. A friend who listens. Maybe even a friend who likes things to stay the same and all in order, as Henry does. But on a day full of too close and too loud, when nothing seems to go right, will Henry ever find a friendor will a friend find him? With insight and warmth, this heartfelt story from the perspective of a boy on the autism spectrum...
Author
Series
Boy called BAT volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Bixby Alexander Tam (better known as Bat) has only one month to prove that he can take care of Thor, an orphaned baby skunk. Bat has autism, which sometimes makes it frustrating for him to get along with people -- but not with animals. So how can he make his mom see that he and Thor are meant to be together?"-- Libraryaware.
When his veterinarian mom brings home a stray baby skunk that needs rehabilitation before it can be placed in a wild animal...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.
5) Rules
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A girl tells what it is like living with her twin brother who has autism and sometimes finds it hard to communicate with words, but who, in most ways, is just like any other boy. Includes authors' note about autism.
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.
13) M is for autism
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After struggling daily with anxiety, a thirteen-year-old English girl learns she has autism.
14) Rogue: a novel
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
An eighth-grade girl with Asperger's syndrome tries to befriend her new neighbor, facing many challenges along the way.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Baseball Books for Kids
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
One World, Many Stories, 3rd - 5th
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
One World, Many Stories, 3rd - 5th
Description
Eleven-year-old knuckleball pitcher Vivy Cohen, who has autism, becomes pen pals with her favorite Major League baseball player after writing a letter to him as an assignment for her social skills class.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fourth-graders Maisie and Hank, who has autism, become friends as they devise schemes to save a neighbor's dog, Booler, from being tied to a tree because of his epilepsy.
19) Piggy
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Lizzie struggles to overcome the closed, internal world of autism when a new girl moves into her neighborhood, befriends her, then insists that Lizzie join her in seeking revenge on the boys who tease them.
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