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24) Watchdog
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Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Orphaned and homeless, fourteen-year-old twins Vick and Tara, who is autistic, go up against a crime lord and her four-legged robotic army, with help from their robotic dog Daisy.
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English
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Since her mother died, twelve-year-old Lily has struggled to care for her severely autistic half-brother, Adam, in their Miami home, but she is frustrated and angry because her oncologist step-father, Don, expects her to devote her time to Adam, and is unwilling to admit that Adam needs professional help--but when Adam bonds with a young dolphin with cancer Lily is confronted with another dilemma: her family or the dolphin's freedom.
27) Team players
Author
Series
Home team novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"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"--
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Series
Boy called BAT volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"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"--
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Told from alternating perspectives, two very different brothers, eleven-year-old Green who is on the autism spectrum and his athletic older brother Cedar, search for the basketball coach's stolen ring after Green is accused of stealing it.
31) It's me, Henry!
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English
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"This picture book about a young boy on the autism spectrum highlights the way he functions differently than his classmates. His way of being in the world has both its challenges and its strengths."--
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Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Sam, a young boy with Asperger's syndrome, has trouble at school and is moody at home, but then his condition is diagnosed and everyone begins to work together to help him stay on a more even keel. Also provides tips for those who have friends with Asperger's syndrome.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2023 - Children
Autism Acceptance Month - Tweens
Disability Pride Month - Tweens
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Autism Acceptance Month - Tweens
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"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."--
34) Can you see me?
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Tally (Libby Scott) volume 1
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English
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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...
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Autism Acceptance Month - Children
Disability Pride Month - Children
Dog Helpers - Young Children and Tweens
Storytime @ Home: Weather
Disability Pride Month - Children
Dog Helpers - Young Children and Tweens
Storytime @ Home: Weather
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"Laila's birthday party, perfectly planned with her autism in mind, goes awry due to a change in weather and an accident with her cake, but with the help of her mom and her service dog, Laila knows she can handle this"--
38) Moonwalking
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English
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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.
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Language
English
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Autism Acceptance Month - Tweens
Disability Pride Month - Tweens
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
Disability Pride Month - Tweens
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
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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.
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Series
When in Rome volume 2
Language
English
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"As caregiver for her autistic brother, Beckett Hayes knows how meaningful a little extra help cn be when life happens. Which is why she runs Consider It Done, a personal concierge serice in her small town. Her job also gives her the flexibility to follow her passion, being Rome, Rhode Island's unofficial special needs advocate training emotional support companions in her spare time. There is not much of that, though, and certainly not enough for...
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