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Diverse Reads: Middle grade featuring neuro-atypical characters (an ACL book list)

Each of these books features a main character who's neuro-atypical in some way, whether it's a character on the autism spectrum, or one with ADHD, or one with dyslexia (or more!).

20 items

  • BookNew York, NY : Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017] — J ARNOLD,E
  • BookOxford ; New York : David Fickling Books, 2008, c2007 — J DOWD,S
  • BookNew York, NY : Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), [2015] — J HUNT,L
  • BookNew York : Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, [2019] — J PANTELEAKOS,N
  • BookNew York, NY : Philomel Books, c2010 — J ERSKINE,K
  • BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017] — J DAVIS,M
  • BookNew York, NY : Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2013] — J URSU,A
  • BookNew York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2015 — J BILDNER,P
  • BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017] — J PLA,S
  • BookNew York : Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children, c2005 — J RIORDAN,R
  • BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2019 — J GERBER,A
  • BookNew York : Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins, c2008 — J CONNOR,L
  • BookNew York : Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2019 — J MACKLER,C
  • BookBoston : Harcourt Children's Books, 2012 — J ENGLE,M