Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A rogue group of Cold War scientists who have discovered a way to manipulate and enhance autistic savants as part of a plan to bioengineer the world's next great prophet triggers a dangerous side effect in its young patients.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Two women meet by accident on a Nantucket beach and are drawn into a friendship. Olivia is a young mother whose eight-year-old severely autistic son has recently died. She comes to the island in a trial separation to try and make sense of the tragedy of her Anthony's short life. Beth, a stay-at-home mother of three, is also recently separated after discovering her husband's long-term infidelity.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bestselling author Karen Kingsbury reminds us that before you take a stand, you've got to take a chance.
Despite his quiet ways and quirky behaviors, Holden Harris is very happy and socially engaged—on the inside, in a private world all his own. But Holden is an eighteen-year-old with autism. Every day he is bullied at school by kids who only see that he is very different.
Ella Reynolds is part of the in-crowd.
...5) Ginny Moon
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager -- she plays flute in the high school band, has weekly basketball practice, and reads Robert Frost poems in English class. But Ginny is autistic. And so what's important to her might seem a bit... different: starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast, Michael Jackson, her baby doll, and crafting a secret plan of escape. After being traumatically taken from her abusive birth mother...
Author
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When pediatric occupational therapist Andie Tilly accepts a job as live-in therapist for the autistic toddler Will, she does not expect a relationship to blossom between her and Will's father, the alternative-energy magnate Rhys Griffiths.
Author
Series
Rosie novels (Graeme Simsion) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 decide how much to guide Hudson and how much to let him be...
8) Stand by me
Author
Series
Family Is forever volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Romantic Christian women's fiction by acclaimed author Pat Simmons explores faith and love. Kym Knicely thought her days as a caregiver were over. But once she starts falling for family man Chaz Banks, caregiver to his seven year-old autistic granddaughter, Kym will need to make some sacrifices to get the family she always wanted"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University there lies a 400-year-old document that no one has been able to decipher. Twenty years ago the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith secretly placed a guard to watch over the document. The guard, Father Ronald McCallum, is overwhelmed when an autistic child visiting the library appears to read from the manuscript's pages. Finally its secrets will be revealed! Father...
10) Shtum: a novel
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In this darkly funny and emotive debut, Ben Jewell has hit a breaking point. His profoundly autistic ten-year-old son, Jonah, has never spoken, and Ben and his wife Emma are struggling to cope. When Ben and Emma fake a separation--a strategic, yet ill-advised, decision to further Jonah's case in an upcoming tribunal to determine the future of his education--father and son are forced to move in with Georg, Ben's elderly and cantankerous father. In...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Francesca Brown discovers a dead body, bullets start flying her way. Soon FBI agent Tanner Hall arrives--only to find an autistic Amish boy hiding nearby. As a witness to a crime, it's clear someone will stop at nothing to silence the little boy--permanently. With assailants on their trail, can Fran and Tanner unravel a lethal conspiracy before the murderer strikes again?
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"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 imagination blossoms and the game opens up a whole new world for...
13) Black Fridays
Author
Series
Jason Stafford novels volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
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.
14) Brother in ice
Author
Publisher
And Other Stories
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"This hybrid novel--part research notes, part fictionalised diary, and part travelogue--uses the stories of polar exploration to make sense of the protagonist's own concerns as she comes of age as an artist, a daughter, and a sister to an autistic brother. Conceptually and emotionally compelling, it advances fearlessly into the frozen emotional lacunae of difficult family relationships. Deserved winner of multiple awards upon its Catalan and Spanish...
Author
Publisher
Rock the Boat
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Alice Tonks desperately wants to make friends at boarding school but, being autistic, she's always found it hard to fit in. Then she discovers she is a "switcher" and can talk to animals. As she starts to explore her newfound abilities, to her horror she learns that creatures are going missing. Only Alice holds the key to solving the mystery and finding the culprit, but she'll need to harness her full powers first. And to do that she'll need a bit...
16) The infinite
Author
Series
Leap cycle volume 1
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Leaplings, children born on the 29th of February, are very rare. Rarer still are Leaplings with The Gift - the ability to leap through time. Elle has The Gift, but she's never used it. Until now. On her 12th birthday, Elle and her best friend Big Ben travel to the Time Squad Centre in 2048. Elle has received a mysterious warning from the future. Other Leaplings are disappearing in time - and not everyone at the centre can be trusted. Soon Elle's adventure...
Author
Publisher
Walker Books US, a division of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sam and Asha. Asha and Sam. Their friendship is so long established, they take it for granted. Just as Asha takes for granted that Donnybrooke, the mansion that sits on the highest hill in Coreville, is the best house in town. But when Sam is accepted into snobbish Castleton Academy as an autistic 'Miracle Boy, ' he leaves Asha, who is also autistic, to navigate middle school alone. He also leaves her wondering if she can take anything for granted...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An autistic girl faced with disaster, Izzy Wilder and her dog Akka set out to discover the truth behind humanity's disappearance, facing life's greatest mysteries as they uncover the true endurance of the human spirit to save the world.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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.-- Novelist Plus.
Bones Malone feels like he can't do anything right in his new small town. He's one of the few Black kids in Langille, and now his baseball team just lost their first game. Kyle Specks never knows what to say to people. He might be neurodivergent,...
20) Superstar
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Lester's first days as a fifth grader at Quarry Elementary School are not even a little bit like he thought they would be -- the cafeteria is too loud for Lester's ears, there are too many kids, and then there's the bully. Lester was always home-schooled, and now he's shocked to be stuck in a school where everything just seems wrong. That's until he hears about the science fair, which goes really well for Lester! But then things go a bit sideways,...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Make a purchase suggestion. Submit Request