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Neurodivergent teens from Multcolib Teens

[updated 3/2026] Books for teens featuring neurodivergent characters.

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  • A neurodiverse twelve-year-old girl is shown an amazing new technology that gives her another chance to talk to the best friend she lost. But she soon discovers the corporation behind the science hides dark secrets that only she can expose.
    Book, 2022New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2022] — y MCNICOLL 2022
  • Frankie is different from everyone in her class, and she can't figure out why. One day, when Frankie sneaks into her mom's room and sees her biological father's name on her birth certificate, she decides to go on a mission to track him down. Could…
    Graphic Novel, 2022New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., [2022] — jgn DOOLEY 2022
  • Seventh-grader Selah Godfrey knows that to be "normal" she has to keep her feelings tightly controlled when people are around, but after hitting a fellow student, she needs to figure out just what makes her different--and why that is ok.
    Book, 2023New York : Scholastic Press, 2023. — j KUYATT 2023
  • A Different Kind of Normal

    My Real-life Completely True Story About Being Unique

    Balfe, Abigail,
    Hi! My name is Abigail, and I'm autistic. But I didn't know I was autistic until I was (kind of) an adult. This is my true story of growing up in the confusing "normal" world, all the while missing some Very Important Information about myself.
    Book, 2022New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2022] — j BIO 618.92858 BALFE 2021
  • Iselia "Seelie" Graygrove looks just like her twin, Isolde...but as an autistic changeling left in the human world by the fae as an infant, she has always known she is different. Seelie's unpredictable magic makes it hard for her to fit in---and…
    Book, 2023Toronto, Ontario : Inkyard Press, [2023] — y HOUSMAN 2023
  • A paranormal mystery and love story. Sam is trying to make a new life in a new town and new high school. Along with new friends, they must work to solve a decades-old murder of another teen and to confront the demons in Sam's past.
    Book, 2022New York : Astra Young Readers, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, [2022] — y MACGREGOR 2022
  • Everyone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape rumored to be half-air, half-water. But Bastián Silvano and Lore Garcia are the only ones who've been there.
    Book, 2022New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2022. — y MCLEMORE 2022
  • In 1990s Portland, Oregon, seventeen-year-old Iph, aided by George, a modern-day Robin Hood, seeks her sensitive fifteen-year-old brother, Orr, while Orr has escaped wilderness boot camp and is residing with The Furies, an all-girl punk band.
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Soho Press, Inc., [2021] — y KEIL 2021
  • Nick would rather write fanfiction about the feats of heroism and romantic entanglements he imagines for the very real superheroes who inhabit his city. When he meets Nova City's biggest hero (and his biggest crush), however, he resolves to become a…
    Book, 2020New York : TOR Teen, Tom Doherty Associates, 2020. — y KLUNE 2020
  • Three years ago, aliens invaded Earth and abducted everyone they deemed useful. The only ones spared were those too young, too old, or too "disabled" to be of value. Living on Earth under the aliens' harsh authoritarian rule, humanity's rejects do…
    Graphic Novel, 2018New York : First Second Books, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, 2018. — ygn WALZ 2018
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    Life on the Spectrum : An Autistic Comic Anthology

    An anthology featuring comics from thirty autistic creators about their experiences of living in a world that doesn't always understand or accept them.
    Graphic Novel, 2022Kansas City, Missouri : Andrews McMeel Publishing, [2022] — GN 616.85882 SENSORY 2022
  • All Aiden has ever wanted to do was play football just like his star quarterback brother, Brandon. An overstimulation meltdown gets in the way of Aiden making the team during summer tryouts, but when the school year starts and a spot unexpectedly…
    Book, 2025New York : Atheneum, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, [2025] — y DAVIS 2025
  • Arthur, a budding filmmaker, is turning the town of Lake Pristine into a small town story worthy of the big screen. His plans are disrupted by the arrival of the town's golden girl--the antagonist of his school days; a girl he's never forgotten.…
    Book, 2024New York : Wednesday Books, 2024. — y MCNICOLL 2024