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Good Different

By Meg Eden Kuyatt
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Selah meticulously follows her rules to appear normal, keeping her emotions hidden until they become overwhelming. She feels like a dragon in a human world, masked by normalcy. When she finally explodes and lashes out at a fellow student, her world unravels—friends pull away and the threat of expulsion looms. Through this turmoil, Selah begins to explore her true self and discovers that being different is not a flaw. A compelling novel in verse, Good Different is a heartfelt story about self-acceptance and celebrating our unique differences.
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This novel is ideal for middle-grade readers grappling with identity and difference, parents and educators seeking sensitive portrayals of autism, and fans of compassionate, verse-driven storytelling.

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Selah knows her rules for being normal. This means keeping her feelings locked tightly inside. 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.

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Selah knows her rules for being normal. She always ... always sticks to them. This means keeping her feelings locked tightly inside, despite the way they build up inside her as each school day goes on so she has to run to the bathroom and hide in the stall until she can calm down.

So that she has to tear off her normal-person mask the second she gets home from school and listen to her favourite pop song on repeat, trying to recharge. 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. Selah's friends pull away from her, her school threatens expulsion and her comfortable, familiar world starts to crumble. But as Selah starts to figure out more about who she is, she comes to understand that being different doesn’t mean being damaged.

Can she get her school to understand that, too, before it's too late?

This is a moving and unputdownable story about learning to celebrate the things that make us different. Good Different is the perfect next read for fans of Counting by 7s or Jasmine Warga.

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Praise for Good Different:

A Junior Library Guild Selection, School Library Journal Best Book, Bank Street Best Book of the Year, Schneider Family Book Award Honor Book, Chicago Public Library Best Fiction for Older Readers, and ALSC Notable Children's Book.

"The next Wonder. Good Different should be required reading." – Good Morning America

"Beautifully written novel-in-verse following Selah's journey as she learns she is on the autism spectrum and embraces herself." – Booklist (starred review)

"Heartfelt. Kuyatt uses candid lines to present Selah's experiences, self-knowledge, and self-advocacy." – Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Highly recommended for building empathy among neurotypical readers and empowering autistic children." – A Mighty Girl

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Book Details

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ISBN: 9781338816105

Publisher: Scholastic US

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 March 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Scholastic US

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 31.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 213.0mm

Weight: 400g

Pages: 288

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Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Meg Eden Kuyatt Scholastic Young Adult

About the Author

Meg Eden Kuyatt is the neurodivergent author of the Schneider Family Book Award Honor-winning Good Different, and a creative writing instructor. When she isn't writing, she's probably playing Fire Emblem. If she could be a Pokemon, she'd be Charizard. Find her online at megedenbooks.com or on Instagram at @meden_author.

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