Other books with a main character with Asperger's Syndrome or Autism
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, by Mark Haddon
Christopher Boone is a 15-year-old autistic savant with a passion for primary numbers and a paralyzing fear of anything that happens outside of his daily routine. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions and cannot stand to be touched. When a neighbor's dog is mysteriously killed, Christopher decides to solve the crime in the calculating spirit of his hero, Sherlock Holmes. Little does he know the real mysteries he is about to uncover. -adapted from Library Journal and Goodreads
Anything But Typical, by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Most days it's just a
matter of time before something goes wrong for Jason Blake. But he finds a glimmer
of understanding when he comes across PhoenixBird, who posts stories to
the same website he does. Jason can be himself when he writes,
and he thinks that PhoneixBird - her name is Rebecca - could be his
first real friend. But as desperate as Jason is to met her, he's
terrified that if they do meet, Rebecca wil only see his autism and not
who Jason really is. -adapted from Goodreads
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventive prodigy whose father dies following the bombing of the World Trade Center. A year later, Oskar finds a key, unidentified except for the word "black" on the envelope containing it, which impels Oskar to seek out every New Yorker bearing the surname Black. He embarks on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches the mysterious key. This seemingly impossible task will bring Oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts on an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey. - adapted from Goodreads and Kirkus reviews
Marcelo in the Real World, by Francisco X Stork
17 year old Marcelo Sandoval hears music no one else can hear, and he's always attended a special school where his differences have been protected. But the summer after his junior year, his father demands that Marcelo work in his law firm's mailroom in order to experience "the real world." There Marcelo meets Jasmine, his beautiful and surprising coworker, and learns about competition and jealousy, anger and desire. But it's a picture he finds in a file -- a picture of a girl with half a face -- that truly connects him with the real world: its suffering, its injustice, and what he can do to fight. -adapted from Goodreads
Rules, by Cynthia Lord
12 year old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. She's spent years trying to teach David the rules-from "a peach is not a funny-looking apple" to "keep your pants on in public"-in order to stop his embarrassing behaviors. But the summer Catherine meets Jason, a paraplegic boy, and Kristi, the next-door friend she's always wished for, it's her own shocking behavior that turns everything upside down and forces her to ask: What is normal? -adapted from Goodreads
The London Eye Mystery, by Siobhan Dowd
Brother and sister, Ted and Kat, take their cousin Salim to see the London Eye, the city's gigantic Ferris wheel. While Ted and Kat watch, Salim gets into one of the glass pods, but thirty minutes later he doesn't get off. So the siblings set out to find their cousin. Complicating the situation, Ted's brain "runs on a different operating system" from other people's, which makes him a lot better at facts and figures than he is at reading people.