USEFUL SOURCES

If you want to read more about the things covered in this book or if you need some more support or guidance then below is a collection of sources including books, websites and blogs that you might find interesting

WEBSITES

YA reviewed by a young disabled person: http://thebookaddictedgirl.blogspot.com/

Bookmark, the Booktrust site on disability and books: https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/bookmark-disability-and-books/

Carefully curated books featuring disabled characters: www.letterboxlibrary.com

Information about identity-first language and why it’s used: https://autisticadvocacy.org/about-asan/identity-first-language/

BOOKS

The Reason I Jump – Naoki Higashida (Random House, 2013)

The Spectrum Girl’s Survival Guide: How to Grow Up Awesome and Autistic – Siena Castellon (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2020)

Ade’s Amazing Ade-ventures series – Ade Adepitan (Studio Press, 2018)

Echo Boy – Matt Haig (Random House Children’s Books, 2001)

A Boy Called Christmas – Matt Haig (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2016)

MORE FROM CERRIE BURNELL

Snowflakes (Scholastic, 2013)

The Harper Series (Sky Pony, 2017)

The Girl With the Shark’s Teeth (Oxford University Press, 2019)

The Ice Bear Miracle (Oxford University Press, 2019)