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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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.
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched....
3) Ben X
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
An autistic teenager retreats into the world of online gaming, to escape bullying at school. With the help of a friend he meets online, he devises a plan to confront the bullies.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Nelson is a poor artist with an undiagnosed case of Asperger's Syndrome. Sadie is a young woman with broken dreams. A one-night stand between them grows into an unlikely romance where the two lost souls begin to find themselves through each other. Nelson is now overcome by the emotions he struggled to paint, while Sadie is freed from the strain of her self-imposed expectations. As weeks go by, Nelson becomes immersed in his painting, racing to capture...
5) Adam
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Adam is a handsome but intriguing young man who has Asperger's syndrome and has led a sheltered existence. Then he meets his new neighbor, Beth. She is a beautiful, cosmopolitan young woman who pulls him into the outside world, with funny, touching and entirely unexpected results. Their implausible and enigmatic relationship reveals just how far two people from different realities can stretch in search of an extraordinary connection.
6) Mary and Max
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Mary is a lonely eight-year-old in the suburbs of Melbourne. Struggling with questions that no one can answer, she writes to Max, an obese 44-year-old Jewish man with Asperger's Syndrome living in New York City, which starts a friendship that spans 20 years and two continents.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Rizwan, an Indian man with a unique way of looking at the world, moves to San Francisco and meets a vivacious single mother named Mandira. They form a special bond and fall in love against all odds, but fate and tragedy conspire to tear them apart. That's when Rizwan embarks on a remarkable journey across America to win back the love of his life.