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1) House rules
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Unable to express himself socially, but possessing a savant-like knack for investigating crimes, a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome is wrongly accused of killing his tutor when the police mistake his autistic tics for guilty behavior.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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 mail room of a corporate law firm.
4) Unlocked
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Popular high school student Ella Reynolds starts a friendship with autistic classmate Holden Harris, and, after realizing he is bullied for being different, she decides to take a stand against his tormentors with the hope she can help him come out of his shell and achieve his true potential.
6) Team players
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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"--
Author
Series
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic—both poignant and funny—about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor's dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the world.
“Disorienting and reorienting the reader to devastating effect.... Suspenseful and harrowing.” —The New York Times Book Review
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries...
“Disorienting and reorienting the reader to devastating effect.... Suspenseful and harrowing.” —The New York Times Book Review
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his veterinarian mom brings home a stray baby skunk that needs rehabilitation before it can be placed in a wild animal shelter, Bat, who has austim, resolves to prove that he is up to the challenge of caring for the skunk permanently.
Author
Series
Tales from Alcatraz volume 2
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
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.
Author
Series
Tales from Alcatraz volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Told from an older brother's point of view, describes how people with autism may react when faced with unexpected changes in their routine, and explains possible origins of the condition, its symptoms, and how people with autism can succeed.
13) The bride test
Author
Series
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but he doesn't experience big, important emotions like love and grief. Rather than believing he processes emotions differently due to being autistic, he concludes that he's defective and decides to avoid romantic relationships. So his mother, driven to desperation, takes matters into her own hands and returns to...
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