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5) Slider
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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, the world's greatest pizza-eating contest, and he has to win it, because he borrowed his mom's credit card and accidentally put $2,000 on it. So he really needs that prize money. Like, yesterday. As if training to be a competitive eater...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2034, a comet is due to hit the Earth within the hour. Denise, who's sixteen years old and autistic, must try to find her missing sister and also help her neglectful, undependable mother safely aboard a spaceship"--
10) 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.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Autistic seventh-grader Maggie is ecstatic to work with her crush, eighth-grader Tatum, for an engineering contest, but both girls must confront their complicated family dynamics and expectations before acknowledging their feelings for each other.
12) Rogue
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An eighth-grade girl with Asperger's syndrome tries to befriend her new neighbor, facing many challenges along the way.
14) A wizard alone
Author
Series
Young wizards volume 6
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
While Nita mourns her mother's death, teenage wizard Kit and his dog Ponch set out to find a young autistic boy who vanished in the middle of his Ordeal, pursued by the Lone Power.
Author
Language
English
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Sam Sylvester has long collected stories of half-lived lives—of kids who died before they turned nineteen. Sam was almost one of those kids. Now, as Sam’s own nineteenth birthday approaches, their recent near-death experience haunts them. They’re certain they don’t have much time left. . . . But Sam's life seems to be on the upswing after meeting several new friends and a potential love interest in Shep, their next-door neighbor. Yet the past...
17) Me and my sister
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
A boy relates how he and his autistic sister are alike and different, and some of the ways in which they show their love for each other.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
With help from her family and teacher, Holly overcomes her dislike of having sticky hands to participate in a science experiment. Includes author's note about living with autism and sensory issues and a recipe for making slime.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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 war-journalist father, who will undergo brain surgery after being injured in Afghanistan.
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