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Young Adult books where the main character is explicitly autistic. They MUST be called autistic in the text and they MUST be the main character/narrator of the novel.
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message 1: by nick (new)

nick The Kiss Quotient Trilogy is barely YA and I honestly would not count it as YA. It seems more like new adult.


message 2: by Janine (new)

Janine Question: Unseelie doesn't have "autism" in the text due to the fantasy setting where the term doesn't exist, but it's clearly in the blurb and there's a note in the opening pages about Seelie, the protagonist. Will that qualify the book, or is that a no?


message 3: by CraftyChara (new)

CraftyChara Some of these books are Middle Grade not YA
A Kind of Spark
Do You Know Me?


message 4: by Kassy (last edited Jan 02, 2025 03:58AM) (new)

Kassy The main character in A Quiet Kind of Thunder isn't autistic, she has selective mutism and social anxiety.
The main character's brother in A Passing Playbook is autistic, not the MC. In The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily the love interest is autistic not the main character.


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