Tom Picasso
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English
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2024 FPPL Disability Pride YA Reads
LSS - Pride Teen Fiction
OBD LGBTQIA Pride Month - YOUTH
Warrenville Books on Tap 2022
LSS - Pride Teen Fiction
OBD LGBTQIA Pride Month - YOUTH
Warrenville Books on Tap 2022
Description
Secrets are revealed as OCD-afflicted Griffin grieves for his first love, Theo, who died in a drowning accident.
Even though Theo had moved to California for college and started seeing Jackson, Griffin never doubted Theo would come back to him when the time was right. But when Theo dies in a drowning accident, the future he's been imagining for himself is gone. To make things worse, the only person who truly understands his heartache is Jackson....
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#ActuallyAutistic Creators for Autism Acceptance Month
2024 Autism Acceptance Month Booklist
Autism Acceptance Month
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2024 Autism Acceptance Month Booklist
Autism Acceptance Month
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Description
Written by a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, this is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within. With disarming honesty and...
3) Amber & clay
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English
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Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
Middle Grade Novels in Verse (SCPL-YS)
Middle School Books (teens)
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Middle Grade Novels in Verse (SCPL-YS)
Middle School Books (teens)
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Description
"In a warlike land of wind and sunlight, "ringed by a restless sea," live Rhaskos and Melisto, spiritual twins with little in common beyond the violent and mysterious forces that dictate their lives. A Thracian slave in a Greek household, Rhaskos is as common as clay, a stable boy worth less than a donkey, much less a horse. Wrenched from his mother at a tender age, he nurtures in secret, aided by Socrates, his passions for art and philosophy. Melisto...