Fiction
Song for a whale
Lynne Kelly
jFICTION Kelly Lynne
Fiction
Twelve-year-old Iris and her grandmother, both deaf, drive from Texas to Alaska armed with Iris's plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with other whales.
The year we fell from space
A. S. (Amy Sarig) King
jFICTION King A. S.
Fiction
Middle schooler Liberty likes to make her own maps of the stars, in fact she is obsessed with them, especially since her family is falling apart; her parents are getting divorced, her nine-year-old sister will barely leave the house and carries a stuffed tiger at all times, her father is suffering from depression, but will not talk about it, and the brothers down the street, once friends, have turned into bullies--so when a tiny meteorite literally falls in her lap it is like a sign, but a sign of what?
Added by Anne W
Each tiny spark
Pablo Cartaya
jFICTION Cartaya Pablo
Fiction
Sixth-grader Emilia Torres struggles with ADHD, her controlling abuela, her mother's work commitments, her father's distance after returning from deployment, evolving friendships, and a conflict over school redistricting.
Added by Anne W
Get a grip, Vivy Cohen
Sarah Kapit
jFICTION Kapit Sarah
Fiction
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.
Added by Anne W
Can you see me?
Libby Scott
jFICTION Scott Libby
Fiction
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 to wonder--what is "normal" anyway?
Added by Anne W
Team players
Mike Lupica
jFICTION Lupica Mike
Fiction
"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"--
Added by Anne W
Small as an elephant
Jennifer Jacobson
jFICTION Jacobson, Jennifer
Fiction
Abandoned by his mother in an Acadia National Park campground, Jack tries to make his way back to Boston before anyone figures out what is going on, with only a small toy elephant for company.
Added by Anne W
Running on empty
S. E. Durrant
jFICTION Durrant S. E.
Fiction
After his grandfather dies, eleven-year-old JJ, a talented runner, assumes new responsibilities including taking care of his intellectually-challenged parents and figuring out how bills get paid.
Added by Anne W
Added by Anne W