![P.S. Be Eleven](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0061938645.jpg?itok=uaqlnNNC)
Readjusting to life in Brooklyn is tough after One Crazy Summer with their mother in California. Delphine and her sisters not only have to deal with their strict grandmother, their uncle has just returned from Vietnam a changed man, and their father has a new love interest. The 1960s come alive in this memorable novel sure to be embraced by those who know Delphine and her family as well as those just meeting them for the first time.
P.S. Be Eleven
![One Crazy Summer](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0060760907.jpg?itok=uYMJpXg1)
Eleven year old Delphine and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, leave their native Brooklyn to visit their long-estranged mother in California. Cecile not warm towards her daughters, seemingly concentrating only on her poetry. Delphine narrates the first of three books which is set in Oakland, 1968. While on their own, the girls learn about the Black Panthers, how political movements impact individuals, and even how to reconnect with Cecile.
One Crazy Summer
![Clayton Byrd Goes Underground](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0062215914.jpg?itok=AOlMgt8-)
Clayton Byrd adores his grandfather, loves the jazz Cool Papa plays with the other bluesmen in the park; Clayton wants to be musician, too. But when Cool Papa Byrd dies suddenly, Clayton is overcome with grief. His mother who has never resolved her own childhood remains at arm’s length though his father attempts to reach the boy. Clayton tries to join the park bluesmen but instead finds a different kind of music with a gang of street kids in the New York subway. Likeable characters populate this fast-paced novel.
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
![Angel Child, Dragon Child](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/angel-child-dragon-child.jpeg?itok=7YUkQgvU)
Ut has come to America, but her mother remains in Vietnam. Ut’s struggle to adjust to her new life and her classmates don’t accept her because she is different. Then she makes a new friend who presents Ut with a wonderful gift
Angel Child, Dragon Child
![The Walking Stick](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0773731016.jpg?itok=XwehckW1)
Van, a young Vietnamese boy, is given a brass-tipped teak walking stick made by his uncle (a monk), who says that now the Buddha “will watch over you no matter where you go, and bring you safely home.” Van carries the stick with him always, even when he and his family flee their war-torn country and cross the ocean. On long walks years later, he tells his granddaughter stories of his homeland. She travels to Vietnam and leaves the stick as an offering at the foot of a Buddha.
The Walking Stick
![Two Lands, One Heart: An American Boy’s Journey to His Mother’s Vietnam](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0802783570_0.jpg?itok=nk18hHPH)
In 1975 TJ’s mother was only a chid when she escaped war-torn Vietnam and came to America. Almost 20 years later, she took her eldest son back to meet the family he had never known and to experence firsthand the country and the culture she left behind. A true-life story told in full-color photographs.
Two Lands, One Heart: An American Boy’s Journey to His Mother’s Vietnam
![Sweet Dried Apples: A Vietnamese Wartime Childhood](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/039573570X.jpg?itok=yVBFekc8)
In wartime Vietnam, a young girl helps her grandfather who is an herbalist. She and her younger brother gather and dry herbs under his supervision and while he is away. One day, the elderly man returns, announcing that the war is coming to their village. Grandfather ministers to its victims and yet he dies himself. The siblings and their mother flee by boat and the girl vows to return to honor her beloved relative. [School Library Journal review]
Sweet Dried Apples: A Vietnamese Wartime Childhood
![Inside Out and Back Again](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0061962783_1.jpg?itok=p_px-UwN)
Inspired by the author’s childhood experience as a refugee — fleeing Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon and immigrating to Alabama — this coming-of-age novel told in verse offers a child’s-eye view of family and immigration.
Inside Out and Back Again
![Listen, Slowly](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0062229184.jpg?itok=j68uKkjp)
Twelve-year old Mai is reluctant to travel with her grandmother from California to Vietnam to learn more about her roots and to help Ba, who is going back to find out what really happened to her husband during the Vietnam War. Mai struggles to understand the language and culture of her family’s heritage in this poignant, often funny novel of being part of two cultures.
Listen, Slowly
![Shooting the Moon](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1416979867.jpg?itok=gVl6SsxB)
Twelve-year-old Jamie Dexter and her brother, TJ, have grown up with the Army: their dad is a colonel. TJ has enlisted and is heading off to war in Vietnam. But then TJ, a photographer, begins to send her rolls of film to develop that gradually reveal the horrors of what he’s seen. The novel invites young people to reflect on the many shades of gray that Jamie confronts. [ALA Booklist review]
Shooting the Moon
![A Manual for Marco: Living, Learning, and Laughing With an Autistic Sibling](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1615992472.jpg?itok=yxQVSepN)
An 8-year-old girl decides to make a list of all the things she likes and dislikes about dealing with her autistic brother, and in doing so realizes that she has created A Manual for Marco.
A Manual for Marco: Living, Learning, and Laughing With an Autistic Sibling
![Remember Dippy](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1935955586.jpg?itok=BUuLDJeL)
During a summer vacation at his aunt’s house, Johnny is made responsible for taking care of his older cousin Remember, who has autism. Remember is a gawky awkward kid with some pretty strange habits, like repeating back almost everything Johnny says and spending hours glued to the weather channel. Johnny’s premonitions of disaster appear at first to come to fruition, but when the two boys save a bully from drowning, salvage the pizzeria guy’s romance, and share girl troubles, Johnny ends up having the summer of his life.
Remember Dippy
![Second Grade Holdout](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0544876814.jpg?itok=SCAv09FH)
The narrator and his friend Tyler will soon start 2nd grade. Will his new teacher and the more advanced grade be as bad as the boys’ older sister warn? Happily, the younger siblings catch on to the teasing when they acknowledge that they are no longer as gullible as first graders! The funny narration is accompanied by jaunty, expressive ink and wash illustrations.
Second Grade Holdout
![Fall Is for School](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1484732545.jpg?itok=g83PApII)
As seasons change, fall becomes time for school. In a rhyming text a girl reminds her reluctant brother of all the fun and learning that it will bring. From history to mystery, arithmetic to astronomy, the pair heads to school.Swirling, bolding colored illustrations fill the pages with autumn images and what the children will see and study.
Fall Is for School
![Owl Bat Bat Owl](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0763691615.jpg?itok=XrX_ppiS)
An owl with three babies sleeps atop a branch when and three young bats with their grownup latch on the bottom. Simple lines convey the concern of both families, until a wind storm brings them together. Expressive illustrations are used to develop the drama and wit in this appealing wordless tale.
Owl Bat Bat Owl
![Autism, the Invisible Cord: A Sibling's Diary](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1433811928.jpg?itok=rm85oblt)
“Ezra looks like any other sixth grader with faded jeans, turned around cap and a mess of chestnut curls. You see, my brother is like any other eleven-year-old except when he isn’t.” This story follows 14-year-old Jenny as she describes her day-to-day life with her younger autistic brother, Ezra. Ezra can be both her best friend as well as her biggest obstacle to living a normal life, and Jenny often finds herself stuck worrying about her younger brother. Through taking care of Ezra and a very special school project, Jenny ends up learning about her own character and strengths, and a way to shine despite everything else.
Autism, the Invisible Cord: A Sibling’s Diary
![The Naked Mole-Rat Letters](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0823420981.jpg?itok=ozBzDTpu)
When her father begins a long-distance romance with a Washington, D.C. zookeeper, twelve-year-old Frankie sends fabricated e-mail letters to the zookeeper in an attempt to end the relationship in this story about family, friendship, and growing up.
The Naked Mole-Rat Letters
![Snarf Attack, Underfoodle, and the Secret of Life: The Riot Brothers Tell All](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0823420620.jpg?itok=43HlsOwT)
Move over, Captain Underpants, a couple of new pranksters are in town. Narrated by fifth-grader Wilbur and featuring his third-grade brother, Orville, this funny story follows the antics of two boys with overactive imaginations and a comfortable sibling relationship. They manage to make even their daily chores a fun adventure, with games like Snarf Attack, where the goal is to make an opponent laugh so hard at dinner that milk comes out of his or her nose.
Snarf Attack, Underfoodle, and the Secret of Life: The Riot Brothers Tell All
![Rules](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0439443830.jpg?itok=WiYwsSsB)
Twelve-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. But the summer Catherine meets Jason, a surprising, new sort-of friend, 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? (2007 Newbery Honor Book)
Rules
![Counting by 7s](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/014242286X.jpg?itok=WhC9hUm1)
Willow Chance is a 12-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. Willow is also an outsider, a girl possibly somewhere on the autism/Asperger’s spectrum (although that is never stated). Suddenly Willow’s world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world. This story is about her journey to find a fascinatingly diverse and fully believable surrogate family.
Counting by 7s
![Mockingbird](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0142417750.jpg?itok=QJeAmwsO)
From inside Caitlin’s head, readers see the very personal aftermath of a middle school shooting that took the life of the older brother she adored. Caitlin is a bright fifth grader and a gifted artist. She also has Asperger Syndrome, and her brother, Devon, was the one who helped her interpret the world. A compassionate school counselor works with her, trying to teach her the social skills that are so difficult for her. Through her own efforts and her therapy sessions, she begins to come to terms with her loss and makes her first, tentative steps toward friendship. (Winner of the National Book Award)
Mockingbird
![Understanding Sam and Asperger Syndrome](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0974721719.jpg?itok=1TJj4_FZ)
Sam doesn’t like his pancakes to touch, his coat hurts his skin, and his sister is annoyed by his incessant singing. But once he is diagnosed, teamwork-based support helps Sam’s life become a little easier. The book includes 10 helpful tips geared toward children, showing them how to respect and accept differences as well as to interact with a classmate or friend with Asperger’s.
Understanding Sam and Asperger Syndrome
![I See Things Differently: A First Look at Autism](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1438004796.jpg?itok=1-m8zf8h)
A sensitive, gently illustrated book about helping a child understand autism in a sibling, playmate, or classmate. The storyline is simple and easily accessible to younger children, who will learn that exploring the personal feelings around social issues is a first step in dealing with them.
I See Things Differently: A First Look at Autism
![Ian's Walk: A Story about Autism](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0807534811.jpg?itok=EF93pU2t)
Julie can’t wait to go to the park and feed the ducks with her big sister. Her little brother, Ian, who has autism, wants to go, too. Ian doesn’t have the same reactions to all the sights and sounds that his sisters have. Through its simple plot, the story conveys a complex family relationship and demonstrates the ambivalent emotions Julie feels about her autistic brother. This natural mix of resentment, anger, isolation, loyalty, and love is explained in preliminary notes written by professional pediatric caregivers.