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Series
Al Capone at Alcatraz volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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.
4) Real
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by a true story.
My name is Charity. I am thirteen years old. I love sour gummies and pepperoni pizza. That last part no one knows because I have not spoken a sentence since I was born. Each dawning day, I live in terror of my unpredictable body movements which no one understands.
Even with incredible math skills and a memory for perfect details, Charity is a person with disabilities. She can't speak and struggles to control her body but...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A girl tells what it is like living with her twin brother who has autism and sometimes finds it hard to communicate with words, but who, in most ways, is just like any other boy. Includes authors' note about autism.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic, fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Charlie, twelve, who has autism and obsessive compulsive disorder, must endure a cross-country trip with his siblings and a strange babysitter to visit their father, who will undergo brain surgery.
Author
Series
Boy called BAT volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
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"--
12) Me and Mister P
Author
Series
Me and Mister P adventure volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An autistic younger brother, a frustrated older brother, and a friendly, fun polar bear who helps both of them!"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventh-grader Lauren begins stealing to help children who, like her brother, are on the autism spectrum, and Sierra, in foster care in Lauren's neighborhood, fears she will enable Lauren's lawbreaking. Told half in prose, half in verse.
Author
Series
Rip and Red volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rip and Red find that fifth grade continues to challenge them in brand-new ways and discover that sometimes radical change is nothing to be afraid of"--
16) Janine
Author
Series
Janine (Maryann Cocca-Leffler) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 490L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Celebrates the differences of children with Autism through the character of Janine, a one-of-a-kind kid who talks to imaginary friends, reads the dictionary forfun, and remembers almost everything.
17) Rules
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
18) Watchdog
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Boy called BAT volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
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.
20) Chester and Gus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chester has always wanted to become a service dog. When he fails his certification test, though, it seems like that dream might never come true -- until a family adopts him to be a companion for their ten-year-old son, Gus, who has autism. But Gus acts so differently than anyone Chester has ever met. He never wants to pet Chester, and sometimes he doesn't even want him in the room. Chester's not sure how to help Gus since this isn't exactly the job...
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