Girls Growing Up on the Autism Spectrum: What Parents and Professionals Should Know About the Pre-Teen and Teenage Years
By: Shana Nichols
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Growing up isn't easy, and the trials and tribulations of being a teenager can be particularly conf…
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1. Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder
By: Sarah Hendrickx
4.21
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
The difference that being female makes to the diagnosis, life and experiences of a person with an A… read more
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- disability
- autistic spectrum disorder
- nonfiction
- psychology
"All the qualifications in the world dont mean a thing if you can't hold a conversation."-Sarah Hendrickx, Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder
"I don't have the ability to process my feelings and articulate them; I just feel a whirl of emotions and physical sensations: dizziness, nausea, tight chest and overwhelming emotional pain..."-Sarah Hendrickx, Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder
"Mental health conditions are the outcome of this refusal to admit limitations. Admission of limitations equates to failure for many women with autism. Admitting vulnerability and asking for concessio…"-Sarah Hendrickx, Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder
"Real me only leaks out when the rote-learning system I have devised has insufficient data to maintain the facade. Real me is also allowed out in times of complete comfort and acceptance (it takes a r…"-Sarah Hendrickx, Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder
2. Skin
By: Adrienne Maria Vrettos
3.89
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
I'M TELLING YOU THIS BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T ASK. I'VE GOT IT ALL HERE, GROWING LIKE A TUMOR IN MY THROA… read more
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"The way to get people to love you is to show them that you love them."-Adrienne Maria Vrettos, Skin
3. Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz, #1)
By: Brandon Sanderson
3.91
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians is the first adventure in a fantasy series for young readers by… read more
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"Wasing not of wasing is", Quentin added."-Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz, #1)
"You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny."-Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz, #1)
"Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people."-Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz, #1)
"And so, untold millions screamed out in pain, and then were suddenly silenced. I hope you're happy."-Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz, #1)
4. I Am Aspienwoman: The Unique Characteristics and Gifts of Adult Females on the Autism Spectrum
By: Tania Marshall
3.73
Format: 238 pages,
I Am Aspienwoman: The unique characteristics and traits of adults, on the Autism Spectrum is a book… read more
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- aspergers
- autistic spectrum disorder
- nonfiction
- psychology
5. Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood
By: Lisa Damour
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Lisa Damour, Ph.D., director of the internationally renowned Laurel Sch… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- psychology
6. Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1)
By: Margaret Weis , Tracy Hickman
4.01
Format: 444 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This Dungeons & Dragons-inspired fantasy adventure is the first installment in the beloved Dragonla… read more
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"There comes a time, Laurana, when you've got to risk your life for something you believe in -- something that means more than life itself."-Margaret Weis, Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1)
"And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time-as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis," the mage whispered, "I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see…"-Margaret Weis, Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1)
"Tas had been teasing Flint unmercifully all morning, calling him "Seamaster" and "Shipmate" asking him the price of fish, and how much he would charge to Ferry them back across the lake. Flint finall…"-Margaret Weis, Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1)
"He remembered a dog—the only living thing they found in the entire village—curled around the body of a dead child. Caramon stopped to pet the small dog. The animal cringed, then licked the big man’s …"-Margaret Weis, Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1)
7. The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive
By: Daniel J. Siegel , Tina Payne Bryson
4.44
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Your toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store. Your preschooler refuses to get dressed. Yo… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- psychology
Similar categories in Ross W. Greene's The Explosive Child book and Shana Nichols's Girls Growing Up on the Autism Spectrum: What Parents and Professionals Should Know About the Pre-Teen and Teenage Years
- nonfiction
- autistic spectrum disorder
- parenting
- psychology
9. The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
By: David Mitchell , Naoki Higashida , K.A. Yoshida
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy … read more
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10. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
By: C.S. Lewis
3.93
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more
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"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
11. I Am AspienGirl®: The Unique Characteristics, Traits and Gifts of Females on the Autism Spectrum
By: Tania Marshall
4.09
Format: 256 pages, ebook
I Am AspienGirl(r): The Unique Characteristics, Traits and Gifts of Females on the Autism Spectrum … read more
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12. How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
By: Adele Faber , Julie Adair King , Joanna Faber
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction by Adele F… read more
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13. Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
By: Dan Koeppel
4.33
Format: None pages,
A gripping biological detective story that uncovers the myth, mystery, and endangered fate of the w… read more
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14. Dead Eleven
By: Jimmy Juliano
3.72
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, h… read more
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15. Attack of the Black Rectangles
By: Amy Sarig King
4.21
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic and finds some words… read more
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"Why do they treat kids like we don't mean anything?"-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
"If you're comfortable learning history, it's the wrong history."-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
"I love banned books. I used to read as many to you as I could when you were little, Mac."-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
"But if we want to change the world so it's good for everyone, it's important to talk about the truth."-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
16. If I Survive You
By: Jonathan Escoffery
3.69
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more
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"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
17. Cat + Gamer, Volume 1
By: Wataru Nadatani
4.18
Format: 200 pages, None
Riko, a twenty-nine-year-old office worker with an obsession for video games, finds her quiet life … read more
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18. A Spell of Good Things
By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of Stay With Me unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria a… read more
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"Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered."-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
"He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better. He took good fortune for granted. As th…"-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
19. How to Build a Boat
By: Elaine Feeney
3.78
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more
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"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
20. Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
By: Alan Rickman
3.58
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
Madly Deeply is a rare invitation into the mind of Alan Rickman—one of the most magnetic, beloved … read more
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- nonfiction
"The trouble with death is that there is no next."-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
"Why was I dreaming about having got myself a Saturday job at Woolworth's??"-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
"The walls we are surrounded by, the objects we fill the spaces with, the lives they all describe."-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
"Savoy Grill with Emma[Thompson]. A very easy, enjoyable meal with an easy enjoyable person. She says 'fuck' a lot. Much laughter."-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
21. Basil and Oregano
By: Melissa Capriglione
3.86
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Mix two parts The Great British Bake Off with one-part magical boarding school plus a generous dash… read more
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22. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
By: Devon Price
4.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more
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- disability
- autistic spectrum disorder
- nonfiction
- psychology
"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
23. The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1: 1969-73
By: Allan Kozinn
4.46
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, The McCartney Legacy, Vol. 1: 1969-73 captures t… read more
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- nonfiction
24. Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum
By: Jennifer O'Toole
3.87
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
The face of autism is changing. And more often than we realize, that face is wearing lipstick. A… read more
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- autistic spectrum disorder
- nonfiction
- psychology
25. What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum
By: Annie Kotowicz
4.40
Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition
In this intimate and insightful mix of memoir and manifesto, Annie Kotowicz invites you inside the … read more
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- disability
- autistic spectrum disorder
- nonfiction
- psychology
"There are billions of us -- humans everywhere, with access to our own minds and no one else's, tossing one another songs and sentences to bridge the gap."-Annie Kotowicz, What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum
"I’ve noticed a communication pattern among autistics, myself included—we often try to express solidarity through similarity. “I’ve been through something like that"-Annie Kotowicz, What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum
26. The Stern Chase (Brotherband Chronicles, #9)
By: John Flanagan
4.15
Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition
Outnumbered but determined, the Herons are ready for action. The scene is set for an epic battle at… read more
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"...she (Lydia) shrugged and moved away, a slight smile on her face. "-John Flanagan, The Stern Chase (Brotherband Chronicles, #9)
"But Hal shook his head angrily. "It's the enemy you don't see that gets you."-John Flanagan, The Stern Chase (Brotherband Chronicles, #9)
"...she (Lydia) shrugged and moved away, a slight smile on her face. *Men,* she thought. *They're such boys!* The self-contradiction in that thought totally escaped her."-John Flanagan, The Stern Chase (Brotherband Chronicles, #9)
"From beneath a table, he heard an ominous crunching sound. Bending down to peer under it, he was horrified to see Kloof, with the polished walking staff held firmly between her forepaws, her eyes clo…"-John Flanagan, The Stern Chase (Brotherband Chronicles, #9)
27. Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women
By: Sarah Bargiela
3.82
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
Autism in women and girls is still not widely understood, and is often misrepresented or even overl… read more
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- disability
- autistic spectrum disorder
- nonfiction
- psychology
28. Can You See Me?
By: Libby Scott
4.28
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
A coming-of-age story about learning to celebrate yourself -- and teaching the world to recognize y… read more
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- autistic spectrum disorder
- disability
"Actually, the more I think about it, the more I figure that a lot of the cons of autism are not really caused by autism, but by how other people react to it."-Libby Scott, Can You See Me?
29. The Spectrum Girl’s Survival Guide
By: Siena Castellon
4.21
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"Never be ashamed of being different: it is this difference that makes you extraordinary and unique… read more
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- disability
- autistic spectrum disorder
- nonfiction
- psychology
30. Girls Growing Up on the Autism Spectrum: What Parents and Professionals Should Know About the Pre-Teen and Teenage Years
By: Shana Nichols
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Growing up isn't easy, and the trials and tribulations of being a teenager can be particularly conf… read more
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- parenting
- autistic spectrum disorder
- psychology
- aspergers
- nonfiction
- sociology
- disability
31. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum
By: Bex Ollerton
4.27
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A colorful and eclectic comics anthology exploring a wide range of autistic experiences—from diagno… read more
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- autistic spectrum disorder
- nonfiction
- disability
