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KARMA MOON, GHOSTHUNTER
Melissa Savage
While in a haunted Colorado hotel for her father's ghost-hunting television series, Karma Moon must battle her anxiety, interpret the signs of the universe, and get footage of a real ghost--you know, the usual.
J SUMN, J
TUNE IT OUT
Jamie Sumner
Twelve-year-old Lou Montgomery's life has been centered on her mother's terrifying plan to make her a singing star, but a crisis reveals Lou's sensory processing disorder and people determined to help her address it.
HONESTLY ELLIOTT J MCDU, G
Gillian McDunn
Struggling with ADHD, loneliness, and connecting with his divorced father who would rather see him embrace sports instead of cooking, sixth-grader Elliott finds an unlikely friend in popular, perfect Maribel when the two are paired in a school-wide contest.
SHANNON IN THE SPOTLIGHT J MILL, K
Kalena Miller
Shannon Carter, who is devoted to her Minneapolis youth community theatre, feels more comfortable staying behind the scenes due to her OCD, but all that changes when the director casts her in a role.
LIKE A CHARM
Elle McNicoll
Ramya Knox is used to feeling cursed. People only notice her long enough to call her a troublemaker. Except Grandpa. He sees Ramya and her neurodiversity as enchanting. But when Grandpa dies, Ramya's world loses its charm...until she discovers he left behind one big secret: that magic is real and Ramya can see it.
Alma Fullerton FLIPPING FORWARD TWISTING BACKWARD J FULL, A
Fifth-grader Claire can do a perfect triple handspring. She can do a giant pirouette on the uneven bars. What she can't do is read. With a lot of effort, she hides her secret until an alert vice principle suggests she get evaluated for dyslexia. Now Claire has to convince her mother--who's afraid her daughter will be labeled 'stupid'--to let her get tested. And that turns out to be even harder than reading.
J PETE, S
Shawn Peters THE UNFORGETTABLE LOGAN FOSTER
Logan, an undersized, neurodivergent twelveyear-old orphan with a photographic memory and no filter, discovers that his foster parents are superheroes in grave danger and only Logan's highly logical mind can save them.
J MELL, N
HOW TO BECOME A PLANET
Nicole Melleby
After an entire summer trying to figure out how to go back to being the person she was before her depression and anxiety diagnosis, twelve-year-old Pluto finds out--with the help of the Hayden Planetarium hotline, a new tutor, and a new friend-that there is no old or new Pluto, there's just Pluto, growing up.
Barbara Dee MY LIFE IN THE FISH TANK J DEE, B
When twelve-year-old Zinnia Manning's older brother Gabriel is diagnosed with bipolar disorder, it turns her family's world upside-down, especially since they are keeping the information private.
Ellie Terry
When her mother breaks up with yet another boyfriend, Calliope meets Jinsong at her latest middle school, who becomes her friend despite her Tourette syndrome and the embarrassment it can cause.
OCDANIEL J KING, W
Wesley King
A thirteen-year-old boy's life revolves around hiding his obsessive compulsive disorder until a girl at school, who is unkindly nicknamed Psycho Sara, notices him for the first time and he gets a mysterious note that changes everything.
Carolyn Mackler NOT IF I CAN HELP IT J MACK, C
Willa, who has been living with Sensory Processing Disorder, lives with her divorced father and her younger brother and attends fifth grade with her best friend Ruby. She likes things to be a certain way and certainly does not like surprises, and her father has just thrown her a big one: he has been dating Ruby's mother, and suddenly Willa's life seems to be spiraling out of her control.
J VAUG, S
ME AND SAM-SAM HANDLE THE APOCALYPSE
Susan Vaught
When the cops arrest Jesse’s dad, she discovers that he's the #1 suspect in the missing library fund money case. With the help of her (first and only) friend, she rounds up suspects. But Jessie, who has a neuroprocessing disorder, feels she isn’t cut out for being a crime-solving hero. But when a tornado strikes her small town, Jesse is given the opportunity to show what she's really made of -- and help her dad.
FINKEL FAMILY J KAPI, S
Sarah Kapit THE MANY MYSTERIES OF THE
Two sisters on the autism spectrum start a detective agency and solve a series of everyday mysteries about themselves and their family.
Pablo Cartaya EACH TINY SPARK J CART, P
Sixth-grader Emilia Torres struggles with ADHD, her controlling abuela, her mother's work commitments, her father's distance after returning from deployment, evolving friendships, and a conflict over school redistricting.
