Disability: Books and eBooks

This book is a murder mystery with a difference. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.

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A heart-breaking tour de force of being alive and in love.

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Norman had always been perfectly normal. That was until the day he grew a pair of wings!
A poignant yet uplifting story about individuality.

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An audiobook version of Maximum Ride: The Final Warning by James Patterson, the fourth in a series of books about six extraordinary children, one of whom is blind, created in a laboratory experiment that left them with the ability to fly.

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A poignant, compelling story about mutlicultural society and overcoming racism. This book has a dyslexia-friendly layout, typeface and paperstock so that even more readers can enjoy it.

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Set in the unique landscape of the Camargue in the South of France during WW2. There, a young autistic boy lives on his parents’ farm among the salt flats, and the flamingos that live there. There are lots of things he doesn’t understand: but he does know how to heal animals. He loves routine, and music too: and every week he goes to market with his mother, to ride his special horse on the town carousel.

Find a copy of this book at Shena Simon campus library.