Kids

Henry, a young boy with autism goes on a class field trip to the natural history museum, with instructions to find something new.

It is picture day for Classroom Ten, but Henry does not feel comfortable or normal in his new clothes, and he has not practiced smiling like the other children.

Eleven-year-old knuckleball pitcher Vivy Cohen, who has autism, becomes pen pals with her favorite Major League baseball player after writing a letter to him as an assignment for her social skills class.

Pictures of cats in usual and unusual positions help illustrate how the behaviors of people with Asperger Syndrome are similar to those of cats. This work takes a playful look at Asperger Syndrome (AS), drawing inspiration from the feline world in a way that will strike a chord with all those who are familiar with AS. Color photographs bring to life the familiar characteristics of independent cats such as sensitive hearing, scampering at the first sign of being stroked, and particular eating habits.

When a new boy with autism joins their classroom, the children try to understand his world and to include him in theirs.

Teaches the alphabet through such positive statements as "I am genuinely goodhearted" for the letter "g" and "I am utterly unique" for the letter "u."

For Bixby Alexander Tam, an autistic boy nicknamed Bat, life tends to be full of surprises--some of them good, some not so good. Today, though, is a good-surprise day. Bat's mom, a veterinarian, has brought home a baby skunk, which she needs to take care of until she can hand him over to a wild-animal shelter. But the minute Bat meets the kit, he knows they belong together. And he's got one month to show his mom that a baby skunk might just make a pretty terrific pet.

The Charlie Thorne series, written by Stuart Gibbs, centers around a 12-year-old supergenius, Charlie Thorne, who is forced to use her exceptional skills to track down and protect historical discoveries, often facing dangerous enemies in a globe-trotting adventure. 

"FunJungle" refers to a fictional zoo/theme park and the book series by Stuart Gibbs centered around a boy named Teddy Fitzroy and his adventures there. The series follows Teddy as he solves mysteries and protects the animals at FunJungle.