Autism Awareness Month: Books for Teens

Updated April 2, 2024
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Autism and adolescence--the way I see it : what teens and adults need to know
Grandin, Temple
Paper Book
Dr. Temple Grandin draws on her hard-won experience to deliver an essential guidebook for guiding and nurturing autistic youth. She gets to the real issues of autistic adolescents--the ones parents, teachers, and individuals on the spectrum face every day. Topics in Autism and...
Daniel, deconstructed
Ramos, James.
Paper Book
A nerdy high schooler learns to embrace his main-character energy in this witty and heart-healing ode to movie tropes, meet-cutes, and LGBTQ+ love. Photographer and film buff Daniel Sanchez learned a long time ago that the only way to get by in an allistic world is to mask...
The awesome autistic go-to guide : a practical handbook for autistic teens and tweens
Purkis, Yenn
Paper Book
This book explores what it feels like to be a young person on the autism spectrum and looks at all the brilliant things people on the autism spectrum can do. This book celebrates the strengths of understanding the world in a different way. It looks at all the reasons being you and...
Crashing into you
Callen, Rocky
Paper Book
In this fiercely moving YA romance novel, Leti Rivera's love of street racing is put to the test when tragedy strikes her family and threatens to tear her apart from the boy she's falling for. Seventeen-year-old Leti Rivera dreams of becoming a famous female street racer. Her...
Unseelie
Housman, Ivelisse
Paper Book
The start of a swoony, high-energy duology that Emily Lloyd-Jones, author of The Bone Houses, calls "reminiscent of classic fairytales yet brimming with a charm all its own." "A world of glimmering fae that sparkles with mystery, adventure, and enchantment." --Andrew...

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