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Summary: An autistic thirteen-year-old runs away from home and discovers a new world on the NYC subway. His mother Mariana, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, starts a panicked search of their neighborhood in Rockaway Beach with the help of a local shopkeeper. But as days pass with no sign of her son, and with Hurricane Sandy bearing down, the divisions the family has tried to ignore are brought to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STA

Bailey, Jenn

Summary: Henry, a first grader on the autism spectrum, attempts to navigate friendships, and sudden changes in classroom routines--like a parade on Friday instead of share time.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2023

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Hammond, Tiffany

Summary: Young children will learn what life can look like for an autistic child who uses nonverbal communication by following a mother and child on a day where they use a tablet to communicate with others.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheat Penny Press 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAM

Knipper, Stephanie

Summary: "In the spirit of Vanessa Diffenbaugh's The Language of Flowers--and with a touch of the magical--comes a spellbinding debut about a wondrously gifted child. Sisters Rose and Lily Martin were inseparable when they were kids. As adults, they've been estranged for years, until circumstances force them to come together to protect Rose's daughter. Ten-year-old Antoinette has a severe form of autism...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KNI

Lucas, Chad

Summary: When things in their town keep getting stranger and stranger, Bones Malone and Kyle Specks team up to solve this mystery, which forces them to face their worst nightmares as they search for the truth.--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LUC

Lucas, Chad

Summary: Bones Malone feels like he can't do anything right in his new small town, and things are getting weird. His mom is acting like a zombie, and he and his brothers have started to have the exact same dreams. Kyle Specks feels like he never knows what to say to people. He thinks he might be neurodivergent, but he hasn't gotten an official diagnosis yet. Even though he's scared, he can't just stand...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC LUC

Genova, Lisa.

Summary: Two women in Nantucket, dealing with their own separate issues of death and heartbreak, find solace in each other's friendship.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEN

Rosenfeld-Kass, Amy

Summary: "Daniel has a new friend at school! His name is Max, and he loves buses. Max is autistic, so sometimes he needs different things. Max and Daniel might be different in some ways, but they always have fun playing together!"--Back cover

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2021

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2 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE DAN

Foster, Kate

Summary: Eleven-year-old Alex knows that starting middle school will be a big change, and for an autistic person, change can be terrifying. Alex devises a plan to impress the kids at school by winning a trophy at the PAWS Dog Show with his trusty sidekick, Kevin the cockapoo. It turns out that finding a friend is harder than Alex thought, unless friendship is about something more than popularity.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC FOS

Stuart, Keith

Summary: "Alex loves his family, and yet he struggles to connect with his eight-year-old autistic son, Sam. The strain has pushed his marriage to the breaking point. So Alex moves in with his merrily irresponsible best friend on the world's most uncomfortable blow-up bed. As Alex navigates single life, long-buried family secrets, and part-time fatherhood, his son begins playing Minecraft. Sam's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STU

Foster, Kate

Summary: "Eleven-year-old Alex knows that starting middle school will be a big change, and for an autistic person, change can be terrifying. He is sure that having a friend by his side will help. But how can he make one? Alex devises a plan to impress the kids at school by winning a trophy at the PAWS Dog Show with his trusty sidekick, Kevin the cockapoo. This should be a walk in the park, right? If...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FOS

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FOS

Simsion, Graeme C.

Summary: Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back in Australia after a decade in New York, and they're about to face their most important challenge. Their son, Hudson, is struggling at school: he's socially awkward and not fitting in. Don's spent a lifetime trying to fit in, so who better to teach Hudson the skills he needs? The Hudson Project will require the help of friends old and new, force Don to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Text Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIM

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIM

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIM

Greenfeld, Karl Taro

Summary: True has a singular path: to be the greatest soccer player of her generation. But to realize her dream, she’ll need to make the Under-17 National Team, then the Residency Program, and the ultimate: the US Women’s National Team. Otherwise she can say goodbye to the Women’s World Cup. And True will do whatever it takes to be the top girl on the field. True has to stay focused because her family...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

Heugten, Antoinette van.

Summary: "Max Parkman, autistic and whip-smart, emotionally fragile and aggressive, is perfect in his mother's eyes. Until he's accused of murder. Attorney Danielle Parkman knows her teenage son Max's behavior has been getting worse-- using drugs and lashing out. But she can't accept the diagnosis she receives at a top-notch adolescent psychiatric facility that her son is deeply disturbed. Dangerous....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA Books 2010

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction van Heugten 2010

Sears, Michael

Summary: Struggling to rebuild his life after a two-year prison term for unscrupulous choices, former Wall Street hotshot Jason Stafford is tapped by an investment firm to investigate the suspicious death of a junior trader.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEA

Peete, Holly Robinson

Summary: Charlie, a boy with autism, describes what his life is like with his twin sister Callie, who does not have autism, and explains how water--whether in a pool, a tub, or in the aquarium--is like a warm hug, which settles him down and calms his mind, allowing him to focus and cope.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PEE

Connor, Leslie

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Noga, Cari.

Summary: "January 15, 2009. Hudson River, New York City. Robby Palmer, a 12-year-old boy with autism, witnesses the 'Miracle on the Hudson' from a sightseeing ferry and becomes obsessed with the birds that caused the plane crash. Passengers Deborah and Christopher are trying to escape their infertility struggle when Flight 1549 plunges them into the icy river. Preacher's wife Brett Stevens has hidden a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOG

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Noga 2013

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: P NOG

Simsion, Graeme C.

Summary: Don and Rosie are back in Melbourne after a decade in New York, and they're about to face their most important project. Their son, Hudson, is having trouble at school: his teachers say he isn't fitting in with the other kids. Meanwhile, Rosie is battling Judas at work, and Don is in hot water after the Genetics Lecture Outrage. The life-contentment graph, recently at its highest point, is...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SIM

Yejide, Morowa.

Summary: " . . . A novel about an autistic boy whose drawings represent something much deeper than even the doctors who study can grasp; his father, serving 25 to life for murder; his mother, trying to hold herself together and fix her broken child. It's a supernatural journey of crime and punishment, retribution and redemption that ultimately leads to a father saving his son, a mother connecting with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YEJ

Brown, Rebecca L. (Rebecca Lynn)

Summary: "An emotionally charged novel about family -- the slow accumulation of wrongs that drive us apart and the unlikely paths that lead us home again. Piper Hart has poured all her energy into raising her son, Fred, while her often-absent husband, Isaac, has poured all his energy into a career defending the wrongly accused. She's always told herself her son is perfectly normal, but somewhere deep...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

Ansloos, Jeffrey Paul

Summary: "When the world gets too loud and chaotic, a young boy's grandfather helps him listen with wonder instead. Kids laughing, sneakers squeaking, balls bouncing--for Thunder, the sounds of the school day often brew into overwhelming noise storms. But when Thunder's mosom asks him what he hears on an urban nature walk, Thunder starts to understand how sounds like bird wings flapping and rushing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANS

Borg, Todd.

Summary: Detective Owen McKenna and his Great Dane Spot race against time to find the kidnappers of Sal Anne "Silence" Ramirez, a seventeen-year-old mute autistic girl believed to have been abducted by a notorious biker gang and its charismatic leader who receives commands from Aztec gods.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thriller Press 2007

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS BOR

May, Peter

Summary: There are two men on their way to Brussels from the UK: Neil Bannerman, an iconoclastic journalist for Scotland's Daily Standard whose irate editor wants him out of the way, and Kale--a professional assassin. Expecting to find only a difficult, dreary political investigation in Belgium, Bannerman has barely settled in when tragedy strikes. His host, a fellow journalist, along with a British...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAY

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