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2) Real
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harity may have mad math skills and a near-perfect memory, but with a mouth that can't speak and a body that jumps, rocks, and howls unpredictably, most people incorrectly assume she cannot learn. Charity's brain works differently from most people's because of her autism, but she's still funny, determined, and kind. So why do people treat her like a disease or ignore her like she's invisible? When Charity's parents enroll her in a public junior high...
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2024 Autism Acceptance Month Booklist
Autism Acceptance Month
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Autism Acceptance Month
K&T - Autism Acceptance Month
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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.
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2023 ALA Children's Award Winners and Nominees
2023 Caudill List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
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2023 ALA Children's Award Winners and Nominees
2023 Caudill List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
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"Ellen, an autistic thirteen-year-old, navigates a new city, shifting friendships, a growing crush, and her queer and Jewish identities while on a class trip to Barcelona, Spain"--
5) Moonwalking
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In 1980s Brooklyn, new student JJ Pankowski, an autistic, punk-rock-lover, befriends Pie Velez, an Afro-Latinx math geek and graffiti artist.
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Al Capone at Alcatraz volume 3
Tale from Alcatraz volume 3
Tales from Alcatraz
Tale from Alcatraz volume 03
Tale from Alcatraz volume 3
Tales from Alcatraz
Tale from Alcatraz volume 03
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Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, faces new challenges when his father is promoted to Associate Warden. The Flanagan's apartment catches fire and Moose and his friends need to find out who started the fire.
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Sixteen-year-old Rain strives to maintain a calm environment for her autistic twin brother Ethan, but her role as his reliable anchor faces uncertainty when Ethan seeks to become more independent and Rain ventures out of her comfort zone and starts dating her school crush, Liam.
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2024 FPPL Disability Pride YA Reads
Autism Awareness (WPL-ADULT)
Disability Pride (kids and teens)
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Autism Awareness (WPL-ADULT)
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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.
10) Watchdog
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Orphaned and homeless, fourteen-year-old twins Vick and Tara, who is autistic, go up against a crime lord and her four-legged robotic army, with help from their robotic dog, Daisy.--Provided by Publisher.
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2024 Autism Acceptance Month Booklist
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Autistic and nearly nonverbal, twelve-year-old Nova is happy in her new foster home and school, but eagerly anticipates the 1986 Challenger launch, for which her sister, Bridget, promised to return.
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Seventh-grader Lauren begins stealing to help children who, like her brother, are on the autism spectrum, and Sierra, in foster care in Lauren's neighborhood, fears she will enable Lauren's lawbreaking. Told half in prose, half in verse.
Lauren begins stealing to help children who, like her brother Ryan, are on the autism spectrum. When Lauren recruits Sierra, in foster care in Lauren's neighborhood, Sienna knows she has more to lose than her friend....
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Tilly Twomley white-knuckled her way through high school with flawed executive functioning. It has left her burnt out and ready to start fresh. Working as an intern for her perfect older sister's start up requries her to travel around Europe, offering a much-needed change of scenery as she plans for her future. Oliver Clark's autism often makes it hard for him to form relationships, but his love of color theory and design allows him to feel deeply...
16) Slider
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"David can eat an entire sixteen-inch pepperoni pizza in four minutes and thirty-six seconds. Not bad. But he knows he can do better. In fact, he'll have to do better. He's going to compete in the Super Pigorino Bowl pizza-eating contest, and he has to win it because he borrowed his mom's credit card and accidentally put two thousand dollars on it. So he really needs that pizza money. Like, yesterday. And as if training to be a competitive eater weren't...
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Fourteen-year-old Livvie Owen, who has autism, and her family have been forced to move frequently because of her outbursts, but when they face eviction again, Livvie is convinced she has a way to get back to a house where they were all happy, once.
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Sixteen-year-old Leo Coughlin's life is increasingly stressful because his autistic older brother Caleb's behavior is becoming more bizarre and even violent, and their parents' marriage is falling apart--but Leo finds an escape in long distance running, and in two new friends: Curtis, himself a potential state champion who teaches him the strategy of running, and Mary, his would-be girlfriend.
19) On the spectrum
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After a social media disaster, Clara leaves New York to spend the summer with her estranged father in Paris, where she is charged with the care of her autistic six-year-old brother, Alastair.
Growing up in New York City with her mother, a prima ballerina, Clara has never felt good about her body. After a social media disaster, she leaves to spend the summer with her estranged father in Paris. There she is charged with the care of her autistic six-year-old...
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"A heartwarming middle-grade debut with autism representation and a musical flair. Maya lives and breathes musicals. When her chance to finally be a part of the summer musical program at the community theater comes up, Maya is convinced she will get the lead. After all, who knows The Drowsy Chaperone better than she does? However, things don't turn out exactly the way Maya's planned, and the summer turns out to be jam-packed with problems: dealing...
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