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Character(s) Book Author(s) Country Notes Ref. 1964 Manfred Steiner Martian Time-Slip: Philip K. Dick USA [148] 1996 Seth Garin The Regulators: Stephen King (under the pen name Richard Bachman) USA [149] 1996 Simon Lynch Simple Simon: Ryne Douglas Pearson USA: Adapted into the film Mercury Rising (1998). [150] [151] 2000 Marty Zellerbach The ...
In the first book of the series, Adam becomes deaf in his left ear due to abuse. [12] 2012 Hazel Grace Lancaster, Augustus Waters, and several other characters The Fault in our Stars: John Green: The book is about characters with several types of cancer and resulting disabilities including a blind character and one with a prosthetic leg. [13 ...
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity is a book by Steve Silberman that discusses autism and neurodiversity [1] from historic, scientific, and advocacy-based perspectives. Neurotribes was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2015, [2] [3] and has received wide acclaim from both the scientific and the popular press.
The main character in Get a Life, Chloe Brown lives with chronic pain. [3] [13] In her book A Girl Like Her, the main character, Ruth, is autistic. [8] The third book in The Brown Sisters series, Act Your Age, Eve Brown, features two autistic leads. [2] [14] Hibbert's stories include characters with a diverse range of body types. [13]
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The main character, Britt-Marie, was featured in Backman's third book, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry. The novel was also made into a film of the same title , featuring Pernilla August in the title role and directed by Tuva Novotny .
In reviewing the book for The Sydney Morning Herald, Jo Case says "In The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams combines the storytelling scale and intimate detail of a 19th-century novel with the sensibility of now – and a cast of richly realised characters and relationships that are a pleasure to spend time with". [1]
The book was children's book of the week in The Times and The Sunday Times, [6] [7] and won both the Overall and Younger Fiction prizes at the 2021 Waterstones Children's Book Prize. [8] It also won the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Story, voted for by children. [9] McNicoll was nominated for the Branford Boase Award [10] and the Carnegie Medal.