Sorta like a rockstar

Author: Matthew Quick

Publisher: London: Headline, 2013

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Having good faith and hope is what everyone would like to have and achieve in their life. For Amber Appleton, a seventeen-year-old girl with autism, she proclaims as “an inspiration, a rockstar - of hope”. She is homeless and lives in a school bus with her alcoholic and unfit mother - difficult circumstances and hardship. She has a best friend who is a loyal rescue dog name Bobby Big Boy - 100% cute. Amber’s optimism is described throughout the story; regularly teaches English to Korean Catholic women through music, visits elderly at nursing home and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran. When a tragedy hits, Amber falls into depression where is unable to cope, feels blank and things are harder than thought possible.

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Colin Fischer

Author: Ashley Edward Miller & Zack Stentz

Publisher: London: Puffin, 2013

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“Colin Fischer doesn’t like to be touched. Or the colour blue. He avoids eye contact unless absolutely necessary” (blurb from back cover).

This book novel tells a story of a 14-year-old boy who lives with Asperger’s syndrome. Highly intelligent but struggles with social interactions and emotions. Every chapter starts with an extract from Colin’s diary, which gives a fact about and thought process of some with Asperger’s. At school, he deals with constant bullying and seen as an outcast. One lunchtime a gun went off in the cafeteria - a crime mystery established. Colin was not scared of the event and went straight into investigating by proving with true facts to who did it.

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