A disorder that is only just beginning to find a place in disability studies and activism, autism remains in large part a mystery, giving rise to both fear and fascination. Sonya Freeman Loftis's groundbreaking study examines literary representations of autism or autistic behavior to discover what impact they have had on cultural stereotypes, autistic culture, and the identity politics of autism. Imagining Autism looks at fictional characters (and...

While Nita mourns her mother's death, teenage wizard Kit and his dog Ponch set out to find a young autistic boy who vanished in the middle of his Ordeal, pursued by the Lone Power.

Olivia "Livvie" Owen, an autistic girl who suffers from destructive outbursts, learns her family is going to be evicted once again because of her behavior and decides they should move back to the one place where she believes they were all happy, but that house was burnt down by Livvie and her parents and sister struggle to understand her plan.

When he is rescued from a freezing black eddy by a beautiful woman named Rikki, Lev Prakenskii, who has no memory of who he is or why he possesses the instincts of a trained killer, fears for his life and the life of his savior.

"Bat grows anxious as his third-grade year comes to an end and the time to release his pet skunk, Thor, out into the wild approaches"--

"Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, faces new challenges when his father is promoted to Associate Warden"--

An unconventional girl who distinguishes herself with unique interests and play preferences borne of a disability considers her spunky sense of individuality when she is not invited to a party that the "cool" kids are attending.

When his veterinarian mom brings home a stray baby skunk that needs rehabilitation before it can be placed in a wild animal shelter, Bat, who has austim, resolves to prove that he is up to the challenge of caring for the skunk permanently.

When Lauren begins stealing to raise money for autistic kids, like her brother, who don't have her family's resources, she convinces Sierra, a foster child, to help with the Robin Hood scheme, in a story told half in prose and half in verse.

"David can eat an entire sixteen-inch pepperoni pizza in four minutes and thirty-six seconds. But he'll have to do better: he's going to compete in the Super Pigorino Bowl, the world's greatest pizza-eating contest, and he has to win it, because he borrowed his mom's credit card and accidentally charged $2,000 to it. So he really needs that prize money. And David's also got to keep an eye on his little brother, Mal (who, if the family believed in...