By Meg Eden Kuyatt (author)
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A moving and unputdownable story for fans of Can You See Me and A Kind of Spark about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate her difference.
Chosen by our Guest Editor, E L Norry as one of her 5 recommended reads. Emma said this book is "an amazing verse novel told by Selah who is autistic and how she navigates the world and struggles around her. Sensitive and poetic."
A debut novel-in-verse about understanding and celebrating your own difference.
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Selah knows her rules for being normal.
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. 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.
As her comfortable, familiar world crumbles around her, 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?
An exciting new voice in children's literature.
"Selah is funny, insightful, and poetic in her quest to balance fitting in and staying true to herself." - Laura Shovan, co-author of Sydney Taylor Notable novel A Place at the Table
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A debut novel-in-verse about understanding and celebrating your own difference. Selah knows her rules for being normal.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Good Different and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
Good Different features in the following genres: Featured Books for 9+ readers, Featured Books for 11+ readers, Stories about Family and Friends, School Stories, Stories in Verse, PSHE: Special educational needs and disability (SEND), PSHE: Self-Awareness, Self-Esteem and Wellbeing, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: First / new experiences and growing up / coming of age, Recommendations, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE)
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Good Different was written by Meg Eden Kuyatt and published by Scholastic an imprint of Scholasticnc
Good Different has 273 pages
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