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Haddon and The Curious Incident won the Whitbread Book Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year, [2] the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, [3] and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. [4] Unusually, it was published simultaneously in separate editions for adults and children. [5]
Merit Leighton, who voiced the character of Frosta, is also autistic herself.[ 284] ^ Croft is autistic herself. ^ Grant is autistic himself.[ 287] ^ Blonstein is autistic herself[ 291] ^ Plank is autistic himself[ 294] ^ One of the show's three writers is autistic.
Out of My Mind is a 2010 novel by Sharon M. Draper, a New York Times bestselling author. [ 1] The cover illustration of the fifth edition is by Daniel Chang, and the cover photography is by Cyril Bruneau/Jupiter Images. A reading group guide is enclosed. The book is recommended for ages 10-14 and for grades 5–8.
The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison. The novel takes place in Lorain, Ohio (Morrison's hometown), and tells the story of a young African-American girl named Pecola who grew up following the Great Depression. Set in 1941, the story is about how she is consistently regarded as "ugly" due to her ...
ISBN. 978-1-85302-718-5. OCLC. 56965690. Followed by. Somebody Somewhere. Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic Girl is the award-nominated [1] debut book by Australian Donna Williams. It was initially published in Britain in 1992, and was on the New York Times Best Seller list for 15 weeks in the first half of 1993.
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity is a book by Steve Silberman that discusses autism and neurodiversity [ 1] from historic, scientific, and advocacy -based perspectives. Neurotribes was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2015, [ 2][ 3] and has received wide acclaim from both the scientific and the popular press.
In a Different Key: The Story of Autism is a 2016 non-fiction book by John Donvan and Caren Zucker. It discusses the history of autism and autism advocacy, including issues such as the Refrigerator mother theory and the possibility of an autism epidemic. [1] [2] Donald Triplett, perhaps the first person diagnosed with autism, and [3] [4] [5 ...
Social psychology. Institutions. Loyola University Chicago. Devon Price is an American social psychologist, blogger, and author focusing on autism. He is best known for his books, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity and Laziness Does Not Exist, as well as for publishing shorter pieces on Medium and Psychology Today .