In honor of Neurodiversity Celebration Week, one of our interns, Danielle Linboom, put together a list of novels with neurodivergent characters for you to share with the tweens and teens in your life. Often, books with neurodivergent characters are geared for younger children, but these engaging stories center the experiences of middle and high schoolers. You might enjoy them, too!
Novels with Neurodivergent Characters for Tweens and Teens
- 54 Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers, Caela Carter
- A Kind of Spark, Elle McNicoll
- Anything But Typical, Nora Raleigh Baskin
- Aster’s Good, Right Things, Kate Gordon
- Can You See Me series, Rebecca Westcott & Libby Scott
- Chester and Gus, Cammie McGovern
- Counting by 7’s, Holly Goldberg Sloan
- Ellen Outside the Lines, A.J. Sass
- Everyday Hero, Cherry Kathleen
- Fish in a Tree, Lynda Mullaly Hunt
- Focused, Alyson Gerber
- Frankie and Amelia, Cammie McGovern
- Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen, Sarah Kapit
- Ginny Moon, Benjamin Ludwig
- Last Pick series, Jason Walz
- Livvie Owen Lived Here, Sarah Dooley
- The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester, Maya MacGregor
- The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family, Sarah Kapit
- Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse, Susan Vaught
- Mockingbird, Kathryn Erskine
- On the Edge of Gone, Corinne Duyvis
- Planet Earth is Blue, Nicole Panteleakos
- Rain Reign, Ann M. Martin
- Real, Carol Cujec and Peyton Goddard
- Sara and the Search for Normal, Wesley King
- The Secret Life of Kitty Granger, G. D. Falksen
- Slug Days series, Sara Leach
- Speak Up!, Rebecca Burgess
- The State of Grace, Rachael Lucas
- Tornado Brain, Cat Patrick
- Tune It Out, Jamie Sumner
- Viral Nation, Shaunta Grimes
- Watchdog, Will McIntosh
