My Especially Weird Week with Tess

Coping with Chloe

Between Mom and Jo

The Ghost Within

Autism with Alex

Glitter Gets Everywhere

The Song That Sings Us

A Fire in My Hands: Revised and Expanded Edition

Two teens meet after tragedy and learn about love, loss, and letting go

Naima Rodriguez doesn’t want your patronizing sympathy as she grieves her father, her hero—a fallen Marine. She’ll hate you forever if you ask her to open up and remember him “as he was,” though that’s all her loving family wants her to do in order to manage her complex OCD and GAD. She’d rather everyone back the-eff off while she separates her Lucky Charms marshmallows into six, always six, Ziploc bags, while she avoids friends and people and living the life her father so desperately wanted for her.

Dew respectfully requests a little more time to process the sudden loss of his parents. It's causing an avalanche of secret anxieties, so he counts on his trusty voice recorder to convey the things he can’t otherwise say aloud. He could really use a friend to navigate a life swimming with pain and loss and all the lovely moments in between. And then he meets Naima and everything’s changed—just not in the way he, or she, expects.

Candace Ganger's Six Goodbyes We Never Said is no love story. If you ask Naima, it’s not even a like story. But it is a story about love and fear and how sometimes you need a little help to be brave enough to say goodbye.

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My Especially Weird Week with Tess

Anna Woltz, 2013

Coping with Chloe

Rosalie Warren, 2011

Between Mom and Jo

Julie Anne Peters, 2006

The Ghost Within

Charlotte Bloomfield, 2012

Autism with Alex

Michelle Frame, 2023

Glitter Gets Everywhere

Yvette Clark, 2021

The Song That Sings Us

Jackie Morris, Nicola Davies, 2021

A Fire in My Hands: Revised and Expanded Edition

Gary Soto, 1990