Good Different

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good different Meg Eden Kuyat

Book Information

Category
Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Publisher
Scholastic Press April 2023
Year Published
2023
  • 08-10 Middle Readers
  • 11-13 Older Readers
  • Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
  • The Champion
  • The Jokester
  • The Team Player

A extraordinary novel-in-verse for fans of Starfish and A Kind of Spark about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate her difference.

Selah knows her rules for being normal.

She always, always sticks to them. This means keeping her feelings locked tightly inside, despite the way they build up inside her as each school day goes on, so that she has to run to the bathroom and hide in the stall until she can calm down. So that she has to tear off her normal-person mask the second she gets home from school, and listen to her favorite pop song on repeat, trying to recharge. Selah feels like a dragon stuck in a world of humans, but she knows how to hide it.

Until the day she explodes and hits a fellow student.

Selah's friends pull away from her, her school threatens expulsion, and her comfortable, familiar world starts to crumble.

But as Selah starts to figure out more about who she is, she comes to understand that different doesn’t mean damaged. Can she get her school to understand that, too, before it’s too late?

This is a moving and unputdownable story about learning to celebrate the things that make us different. Good Different is the perfect next read for fans of Counting by 7s or Jasmine Warga.---from the publisher

288 pages                            978-1338816105                                   Ages 8-12

Keywords:  novel in verse, neurodivergent, diversity, diverse books, understanding others, 8 year old, 9 year old, 10 year old, 11 year old, 12 year old, finding yourself, understanding yourself

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