Autism Acceptance Month

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Celebrate differences this Autism Acceptance Month with one of these titles!

Kids

• All My Stripes: A Story for Children with Autism by Shaina Rudolph
• A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Can You See Me? by Libby Scott
• The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin by Julia Finley Mosca
• How to Talk to an Autistic Kid by Daniel Stefanski (Read now on OverDrive)
• I See Things Differently: A First Look at Autism by Thomas, Pat
• Ian’s Walk: A Story about Autism by Laurie Lears
• A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll
• London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd (Read now on OverDrive)
• Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse by Susan Vaught
• Mockingbird Mok’ing-bûrd by Kathryn Erskine (Listen on CD audiobook or read now on OverDrive)
• Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin (Listen on CD audiobook or read now on OverDrive)
• Real by Carol Cujec & Peyton Goddard
• The Real Boy by Anne Ursu (Read now on OverDrive)
• Rules by Cynthia Lord (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)

Teens

• Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Geek Girl by Holly Smale (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins (Read now on OverDrive)
• On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis (Read now on OverDrive)
• Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Same but Different: Teen Life on the Autism Express by Holly Robinson Peete
• This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp (Listen on CD audiobook or read now on OverDrive)
• When My Heart Joins the Thousand by A.J. Steiger

Fiction

• Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (Watch on DVD or read now on OverDrive)
• Heart Principle by Helen Hoang (Read now on OverDrive)
• House Rules by Jodi Picoult (Listen on CD audiobook or read now on OverDrive)
• The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Love Anthony by Lisa Genova (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Maid by Nita Prose (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Room Called Earth by Madeleine Ryan –*ON ORDER* (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)
• The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Two Wrongs Make a Right by Chloe Liese (Read now on OverDrive)
• Winter Knight by Jes Battis –*ON ORDER* (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)

Memoir

• Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man’s Voice from the Silence of Autism by Naoki Higashida
• Funny, You Don’t Look Autistic: A Comedian’s Guide to Life on the Spectrum by Michael McCreary (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• How to Be Human: An Autistic Man’s Guide to Life by Jory Fleming with Lyric Winik
• I Have Been Buried under Years of Dust: A Memoir of Autism and Hope by Valerie Gilpeer & Emily Grodin (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)
• Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism by Ron Suskind (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s by John Elder Robison (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)
• Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale

Graphic Novels

• Blue Bottle Mystery – The Graphic Novel by Kathy Hoopmann; Rachel Smith; Mike Medaglia
• Brother: A Story of Autism by Carlton Hudgens as told to Bridget Hudgens, Nam Kim
• Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women by Sarah Bargiela
• Drawing Autism by Jill Mullin (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)
• Frankie’s World by Aoife Dooley (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)
• My Life Beyond Autism: A Mayo Clinic Patient Story by Hey Gee & C Ano (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)
• Sensory: Life on the Spectrum – An Autistic Comic Anthology edited by Rebecca “Bex” Ollerton
• Two Heads: A Graphic Exploration of How Our Brains Work with Other Brains by Uta Frith, Chris Frith, Alex Frith and Daniel Locke (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)

And more!

• The Autistic Brain: Thinking across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Survival Guide for Kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders (and Their Parents) by Elizabeth Verdick and Elizabeth Reeve, M.D.
• Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism by Barry M. Prizant (Read now on OverDrive)
• Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation by Eric Garcia (Read now on OverDrive)
• Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age by Sarah Hendrickx