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21) Team players
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Series
Home team novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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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"--
23) Slider
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"David can eat an entire sixteen-inch pepperoni pizza in four minutes and thirty-six seconds. But 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 charged $2,000 to it. So he really needs that prize money. And David's also got to keep an eye on his little brother, Mal (who, if the family believed in...
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English
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For the parents, families, and friends of the 1 in 250 autistic children born annually in the United States, George and Sam provides a unique look into the life of the autistic child.
Charlotte Moore has three children, George, Sam, and Jake. George and Sam are autistic. George and Sam takes the reader from the births of each of the two boys, along the painstaking path to diagnosis, interventions, schooling and more. She writes powerfully about her...
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Series
Boy called BAT volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
In My Friend Has Autism, beginning readers are introduced to different characters who have autism, how autism may affect their actions, and how we can be good friends to people who have autism. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they discover how to be empathetic and include all kinds of friends.
A diagram shows different tools that help children with autism, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Zak has autism, so he sometimes responds to the world around him in unconventional ways. As he describes his point of view, young readers gain a better understanding of his behaviors and learn valuable lessons about patience, tolerance, and understanding.
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English
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The inspiring story of Rex, a boy who is not only blind and autistic, but who also happens to be a musical savant. How can an 11-year old boy hear a Mozart fantasy for the first time and play it back note-for-note perfectly-but struggle to navigate the familiar surroundings of his own home? Cathleen Lewis says her son Rex's laugh of total abandon is the single most joyous sound anyone could hear, but his tortured aversion to touch and sound breaks...
30) Duck days
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Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Third-grader Lauren, who has Autism Spectrum Disorder, is practising the skill of 'going with the flow,' but finds that difficult when she learns that her best friend Irma has made another friend, Jonas. Meanwhile, Lauren is dreading a looming mountain bike day at school. Her classmate Ravi teases anyone with training wheels like hers. Lauren feels better about Jonas when he tells her how important she is to Irma, and he helps her face the mountain...
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English
Description
No matter how high functioning children with autism or Asperger's may be, they are going to have trouble with their sensory systems. Enter Jennifer McIlwee Myers, Aspie at Large! Author of How to Teach Life Skills to Kids with Autism or Asperger's and co-author of the groundbreaking book Asperger's and Girls, Jennifer's personal experience with autism and Sensory Processing Disorder makes her perspective doubly insightful.
Jennifer's straightforward...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"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"--
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English
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"Ellen's personal experiences as a parent of children with autism and ADHD, a celebrated autism author, and a contributor to numerous publications, classrooms, conferences, and websites around the world coalesce to create a guide for all who come in contact with a child on the autism spectrum. This updated edition delves into expanded thought and deeper discussion of communication issues, social processing skills, and the critical roles adult perspectives...
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English
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"A groundbreaking book that upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently. What is autism: a devastating developmental disorder, a lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more--and the future of our society depends on our...
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Language
English
Description
I told autism in my family these vitamins and juice and muffins will help my son's brain get on the right channel it is supposed to be on. I told autism that you will not win in my family. I told autism that my son will make it. He will graduate high school and go to college. I told autism in my family my son will play sports, he will talk, and he will be on the same level as his peers. I told autism in my family I said "Bye, Felicia."
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
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Description
With Asperger's syndrome, teenager Jacob Hunt is unable to have the same kind of social life other boys his age have. However, like other kids with AS, he has homed in on one particular interest: forensic analysis. He normally shows up to crime scenes and helps solve the case, but this time he is the prime suspect. When a murder leads police to question Jacob, they interpret his AS symptoms as a sign of guilt and cast a very public spotlight on Jacob...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A young girl realizes how much she cares for her autistic brother Ian when he gets lost at the park. When her autistic little brother, Ian, wanders off while on a walk to the park, Julie must try to see the world through his eyes in order to find him.
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English
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"In this young adult novel, a teenage girl sets out by foot to find her autistic brother in the aftermath of a catastrophic power outage"--
The blackout has been going on for three weeks, but to Alex it feels like a year. Her brother, who has autism, was removed from the house, something Alex blames herself for. So when her best friend, Anthony, asks her to trek to another town to figure out the truth about the blackout, Alex says yes. On a journey...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Alcatraz Island in the 1930s isn't the most normal place to grow up, but it's home for Moose Flanagan, his autistic sister, Natalie, and all the families of the guards. When Moose's dad gets promoted to Associate Warden, despite being an unlikely candidate, it's a big deal. But the cons have a point system for targeting prison employees, and his dad is now in serious danger. After a fire starts in the Flanagan's apartment, Natalie is blamed, and Moose...
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