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3) Slider
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Hoping to win a cash prize in a pizza eating contest after racking up a tab on his mother's credit card, David must juggle his competitive eating training with the responsibility of looking after his autistic younger brother.
Author
Series
Publisher
Looking Glass Library
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
470L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
My Special Needs Family is the story of a normal day in Roxy's life. When classmate Lenny visits her home, he discovers Roxy has autism. Who taught her how to bowl? Dad. Who gets her snack? Roxy. Who makes her dinner? Mom. Lenny realizes love makes a family. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
Author
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Language
English
Description
Henry would like to find a friend at school, but for a boy on the autism spectrum, making friends can be difficult, as his efforts are sometimes misinterpreted or things just go wrong--but Henry keeps trying, and in the end he finds a friend he can play with.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Lexile measure
AD 620L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy describes his friendship with Matt, whose autism spectrum disorder causes him to behave strangely at times, and how he make things easier for Matt at school and in their neighborhood.
Author
Publisher
Boys Town Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Zak has autism, so he sometimes responds to the world around him in unconventional ways. As he describes his point of view, young readers gain a better understanding of his behaviors and learn valuable lessons about patience, tolerance, and understanding.
9) Team players
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A girl with Asperger's joins Cassie's softball team but not everyone on the team welcomes her, creating a rift between Cassie and her teammates" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 500L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Sammy is having a very bad day at school and at home until his autistic brother, Benji, finds a way to make him feel better.
11) A bird will soar
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After a tornado, Axel, who loves birds, finds an injured eaglet, and helps to rescue it--and also helps to resolve the problems in his broken family, including drawing his father back home.
12) Can you see me?
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Tally is starting sixth grade at Kingswood Academy and she really wants to fit in, which means somehow hiding her autism, hypersensitivity to touch, and true self, and trying to act "normal" like her former best friend, Layla, who is distancing herself from Tally and her fourteen-year-old sister, Nell, who is always angry with Tally for being different; but as she records her thoughts and anxieties in her coping diary, Tally begins...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
540L
Physical Desc
226 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Moose has his hands full during the summer of 1936 watching his autistic sister, Natalie, and the warden's daughter, Piper, and trying to get on a baseball team by proving he knows Al Capone.
14) Ginny Moon
Author
Language
English
Description
Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager--she plays flute in the high school band, has weekly basketball practice, and reads Robert Frost poems in English class. But Ginny is autistic. And so what's important to her might seem a bit... different: starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast, Michael Jackson, her baby doll, and crafting a secret plan of escape. After being traumatically taken from her abusive birth mother and...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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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
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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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
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Charlie, a boy with autism, describes what his life is like with his twin sister Callie, who does not have autism, and explains how water--whether in a pool, a tub, or in the aquarium--is like a warm hug, which settles him down and calms his mind, allowing him to focus and cope.
19) A boy called Bat
Author
Series
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
For Bixby Alexander Tam (nicknamed Bat), life tends to be full of surprises some of them good, some not so good. Today, though, is a good-surprise day. Bat's mom, a veterinarian, has brought home a stray baby skunk, which she needs to take care of until she can hand him over to a wild-animal shelter. But the minute Bat meets the kit, he knows they belong together. And he s got one month to show his mom that a baby skunk might just make a pretty terrific...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Thirteen-year-old Ellen Katz feels most comfortable when her life is well planned out and people fit neatly into her predefined categories. She attends temple with Abba and Mom every Friday and Saturday. Ellen only gets crushes on girls, never boys, and she knows she can...