Please Don't Hug Me
By: Kay Kerr
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A funny-serious own-voices story about what happens when you stop trying to be the person other peo…
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1. Heretics Anonymous
By: Katie Henry
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
The Breakfast Clubmeets Saved!in this hilarious and heartfelt YA debut by author Katie Henry about … read more
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2. Tilly in Technicolor
By: Mazey Eddings
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Tilly Twomley is desperate for change. White-knuckling her way through high school with flawed exec… read more
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- autistic spectrum disorder
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- disability
"Couples that stim together stay together."-Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor
"...feeling empowered for existing just as they are."-Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor
"I love you without conditions. Without expectations."-Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor
"ADHD hasn't changed me...It is me. It's an undeniable and simple fact of who I am." - Tilly"-Mazey Eddings, Tilly in Technicolor
3. Good Different
By: Meg Eden Kuyatt
4.52
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A extraordinary novel-in-verse about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate he… read more
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- realistic fiction
- autistic spectrum disorder
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- disability
"Fight for words, even if it's hard."-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different
"You may have different needs than some folks in your class, but that doesn't make you the «wrong» version and other people the «normal» version. You are Selah. And you are not the only one feeling t…"-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different
4. Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it
By: Pete Wharmby
4.35
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
It’s time to remake the world – the ground-breaking book on what steps we should all be taking for … read more
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- autistic spectrum disorder
- disability
- mental health
"By the time I entered education in the late 1980s, schools were about as well adapted for my neurotype as a set of stairs is adapted for the use by a Dalek."-Pete Wharmby, Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it
5. One of Those Mothers
By: Megan Nicol Reed
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
The residents of Point Heed keep nice houses and sign up as parent help at the local school. Occasi… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
6. Something Terrible Happened Last Night
By: Sam Blake
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
It’s Katie’s 17th birthday – the dancefloor is packed, the drink is flowing and Rave-fess, the Rave… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
7. Sadie Starr’s Guide to Starting Over
By: Miranda Luby
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Unknown Binding
Sadie Starr is obsessed with starting over. A new year, a new diet, a new social media identity. An… read more
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- contemporary
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
8. A Kind of Spark
By: Elle McNicoll
4.52
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
A neurodivergent girl campaigns for a memorial when she learns that her small Scottish town used to… read more
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- realistic fiction
- autistic spectrum disorder
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- disability
"No horrible, awful, rubbish day is worth damaging a library book."-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark
"Autistic people have probably done so much for hundreds of years without any credit."-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark
"While you are neurotypical and I am autistic, I promise we are more alike than we are different."-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark
"Books are not medicine, they are food. You won't remember every bite but you will remember the taste."-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark
9. Ready When You Are
By: Gary Lonesborough
4.20
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable YA love story between two Aboriginal boys -- one who doesn’t want to accept he’s gay, … read more
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- coming of age
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"Go to your elders. You should ask them about your country and your totem. Because that is your identity. A blackfella with no identity is a lost blackfella. He don't know where he belongs."-Gary Lonesborough, Ready When You Are
10. Keedie
By: Elle McNicoll
4.69
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Set in Juniper five years before A Kind of Spark, Keedie is a powerful coming-of-age story that tho… read more
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- coming of age
- autistic spectrum disorder
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- disability
"I can't stand people who say they're good when they're not."-Elle McNicoll, Keedie
"I may be forced to mask, but they choose to wear numerous faces."-Elle McNicoll, Keedie
"You have to be the cartographer of your own heart. Make it into a map."-Elle McNicoll, Keedie
"She's like the sunflower. She'll find the sun no matter how much darkness other people try to put her in."-Elle McNicoll, Keedie
11. Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
By: Chloé Hayden
4.34
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
An empowering lived-experience guide to celebrating and supporting neurodivergence from 24-year-old… read more
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- autistic spectrum disorder
- disability
- mental health
"Our identities make us who we are, and all aspects of our identities are important, including (maybe even specifically) our disabilities."-Chloé Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
12. UNMASKED
By: Ellie Middleton
4.24
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
Brought to you by Penguin. Whether you are neurodivergent, suspect you might be, or want to be a… read more
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- autistic spectrum disorder
- disability
- mental health
13. Something More
By: Jackie Khalilieh
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A contemporary teen romance novel featuring a Palestinian-Canadian girl trying to hide her autism d… read more
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- young adult contemporary
- autistic spectrum disorder
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- disability
"No matter how far I've come and no matter how hard I try, beneath the mask will always be a girl who's afraid of being left behind."-Jackie Khalilieh, Something More
"Maybe if people can get past the things that make me different on the outside, then they might try to get to know the real me. And maybe I’ll let them."-Jackie Khalilieh, Something More
14. Show Us Who You Are
By: Elle McNicoll
4.41
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
The second book from the author of A Kind Of Spark, with Neurodivergent characters you'll root for … read more
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- autistic spectrum disorder
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- disability
"There are no useless facts, Cora."-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are
"Grief is just love asking for more time."-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are
"As soon as I gave up caring, everything got easier."-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are
"People's minds are all so different. All capable of different things."-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are
15. Road Tripping with Pearl Nash
By: Poppy Nwosu
4.24
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
The summer is finally here, and Pearl Nash is on a mission to save her slowly disintegrating friend… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
16. How You Ruined My Life
By: Jeff Strand
3.43
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Rod and his cousin take family rivalry to a new level in this rollicking comedy from Jeff Strand. … read more
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- humor
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I’m not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I’m not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I’m not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I’m not…"-Jeff Strand, How You Ruined My Life
17. After the Rain
By: Natália Gomes
3.67
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
'We’re alive. So let’s start living.' Two strangers Jack was sporty and outgoing. Alice was b… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
18. Elsewhere Girls
By: Emily Gale
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
It’s midnight and I’m alone in the kitchen eating a cold potato scallop. Coach O'Call would say som… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
19. Please Don't Hug Me
By: Kay Kerr
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A funny-serious own-voices story about what happens when you stop trying to be the person other peo… read more
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- young adult contemporary
- coming of age
- autistic spectrum disorder
- humor
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- disability
20. Fin & Rye & Fireflies
By: Harry Cook
3.95
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
“It started with a kiss…as love stories often do. Jesse Andrews had the arms of a Greek god and he … read more
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- fiction
- young adult contemporary
- young adult
- contemporary
21. Riptides
By: Kirsten Alexander
3.40
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
In 1974, in country Queensland, Charlie Campbell forces a car off an unlit and rarely travelled dir… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
