Books With Disabled Representation


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Book cover for "All my stripes"
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5 stars
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Zane rushes home to tell his mother about problems he faced during his school day, and she reminds him that while others may only see his "autism stripe," he has stripes for honesty, caring, and much more.

2. Autism

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3.7 stars
Book cover for "Bat and the end of everything"
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Boy called BAT volume 3.
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Bat grows anxious as his third-grade year comes to an end and the time to release his pet skunk, Thor, out into the wild approaches in the finale to the funny, heartfelt, and acclaimed series starring an unforgettable young boy on the autism spectrum from National Book Award finalist Arnold. Illustrations.
Book cover for "Bat and the waiting game"
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Series:
Boy called BAT volume 2.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
When Bat's older sister Janie gets a part in the school play, and can't watch him after school, it means some pretty big changes. For one, someone else will have to take care of the skunk kit in the afternoons.
Book cover for "A boy called Bat"
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Boy called BAT volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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...
Book cover for "Can you see me?"
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4.3 stars
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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...
Book cover for "Chester and Gus"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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Chester, an aspiring service dog who fails his certification test is adopted into a family where he becomes a companion to Gus, a 10-year-old boy with autism, who initially challenges the dog by requiring a different kind of friendship.
Book cover for "The curious incident of the dog in the night-time"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
Book cover for "Forever Neverland"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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Told in two voices, Clover, twelve, and her autistic brother Fergus, eleven, discover they are descended from Wendy Darling and set off with Peter Pan for adventures in Neverland.
Book cover for "A friend for Henry"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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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.
Book cover for "Get a grip, Vivy Cohen!"
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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.
Book cover for "How to build a hug"
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As a young girl, Temple Grandin loved folding paper kites, making obstacle courses, and building lean-tos. But she really didn't like hugs. Temple wanted to be held--but to her, hugs felt like being stuffed inside the scratchiest sock in the world; like a tidal wave of dentist drills, sandpaper, and awful cologne, coming at her all at once. Would she ever get to enjoy the comfort of a hug? Then one day, Temple had an idea. If she couldn't receive...
Book cover for "I am an Aspie Girl"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Lizzie explains what it's like to have Asperger's Syndrome, including how she has a special talent for blending in with her friends, how she gets really tired after being at school all day, how she worries about making mistakes, and how she finds it hard to understand how she is feeling"--
Book cover for "Kids like us"
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A tender, smart, and romantic YA novel about a teenage boy on the autism spectrum who learns he is capable of love.
Book cover for "Marcelo in the real world"
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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.
Book cover for "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.
Book cover for "Planet Earth is blue"
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Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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.

18. Rules

Book cover for "Rules"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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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 a young paraplegic.
Book cover for "Since we're friends"
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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.
Book cover for "Slug days"
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Seeing the world very differently because of her Asperger syndrome, young Lauren struggles to navigate the challenges of school life and masters tricks to stay calm, understand others' feelings, and let her personality shine.