While it never discounts the difficulties of living with autism, this book offers inspiring stories and practical advice drawn from Dr. Prizant's four-decade career. It offers a compassionate perspective that family members and...
Autism
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Author:Fields-Meyer, Thomas, Prizant, Barry M.Summary: -
Author:Rastelli, Linda G., Grandin, Temple, Shore, Stephen M.Summary:Autism affects more than one million children and adults in the United States, and parents may be confused by the behavior of autistic children. This book provides help and hope by explaining the differences between various types of...
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Author:Higashida, NaokiSummary:Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us...
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Author:HADDON, MarkSummary:Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother...
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Author:Grandin, TempleSummary:Temple Grandin reports from the forefront of autism science, bringing her singular perspective to a thrilling journey into the heart of the autism revolution. Weaving her own experience with remarkable new discoveries, Grandin...
- Author:Higashida, NaokiSummary:
Pour la première fois, un enfant atteint d’autisme sévère raconte sa vie intérieure. Âgé de 13 ans au moment de la publication de l’édition japonaise du livre, Naoki Higashida répond avec sensibilité, intelligence et honnêteté à une...
- Author:Lord, CynthiaSummary:
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.
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Author:Geus, MireilleSummary: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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Author:Gold, JenniferSummary:Growing up in the shadow of a famous mother, Clara has never felt good about her body. Now, at sixteen, she has an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating. After a social media disaster, she decides to escape for the summer to Paris to...
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Author:Stork, Francisco XSummary: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:Ellis, DeborahSummary:
Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award In this urban adventure story, Khyber, a smart, bold, eleven-year-old girl from a poor neighborhood, sets out to find her friend X, a mysterious homeless woman who has gone missing. The...
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Author:Dooley, SarahSummary: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...
- Author:Saint-Jean, MathildeSummary:
Après une fusillade qui a failli lui coûter la vie, notre héroïne se réveille chez Nayden, en Haute République, où l’opulence et l’excès règnent en maître. En compagnie de son nouveau protecteur, elle prend connaissance de ce qui lui...
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Author:Shaw, LianeSummary:Sixteen-year-old Frederick has a lot of rules for himself. Like if someone calls him Freddy he doesn’t have to respond; he only wears shirts with buttons and he hates getting dirty. His odd behavior makes him an easy target for the “...
- Author:Mitchell, Sharon A.Summary:
We're thrilled to announce that this Amazon bestseller is also a B.R.A.G. Medallion winner!After suddenly receiving custody of his five year old son, Ben must learn how to be a dad. The fact that he'd even fathered a child was news to...
- Author:Choldenko, GenniferSummary:
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...
- Author:Choldenko, GenniferSummary:
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:Choldenko, GenniferSummary:
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.
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Author:Duane, DianeSummary:When Nita and Kit, two teenage wizards, lose a young friend, Kit goes searching for him. Meanwhile, Nita is grappling with mysterious dreams and disturbing messages. Soon she fears that the Dark Power, source of all death, is...
