Ficton Book "The London Eye Mystery"

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Ficton Book "The London Eye Mystery"
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Mon, 04-21-2008 - 12:13am

My kids are huge bookworms, but since they get distracted easily at the library, I usually end up picking out a lot of the books they read. I picked out one called, "The London Eye Mystery," by Siobhan Dowd for my 9, 11 & 13yo to read since it looked interesting.

After my 13yo read it, she asked whether I'd picked it out deliberately since the main character has an ASD. Nowhere in the book's description does it say anything about the main character having an ASD. Actually, nowhere in the book does it specifically say "autism," either, but throughout the book it makes various references to behaviors, hand flapping, the boy's "condition," his neurologist, etc., that make it very clear that the main character is HFA.

The book is new (copyrighted in 2007). The book is written in first person, with the main character/hero being a young teen boy with an ASD. My dd liked the book.

-momnstuff (formerly "hwife")

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Mon, 04-21-2008 - 10:26am

Thanks for that idea, I'll check it out for my 9 year old Aspie.


Another good fiction one for high functioning ASD teens is 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time' (and this is just as good for adults) - it's a 'mystery' told from the perspective of an ASD teenager whose take on the world is very interesting!


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Mon, 04-21-2008 - 4:48pm
Has anyone tried the books by Kathy Hoopman?


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Mon, 04-21-2008 - 7:10pm
My Aspie loved all of the Kathy Hoopman books.

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Mon, 04-21-2008 - 9:30pm

We read the "Blue Bottle Mystery" and its sequel "Of Mice and Aliens" a couple of years ago and liked them. We were able to get them at our library. Since we were just learning about Aspergers at the time, the opening chapter to Blue Bottle Mystery really rang a bell with me since it was a lot like my interactions were with ds before I knew anything about AS. Both books are geared to approx 8-10yr olds.

I didn't realize there was another book in Hoopmann's Asperger Adventure series until the last post referenced it. I'm going to have to go look for it at the library now.

We also read "The Curious Incident" book about the same time. My oldest dd read it before I'd previewed it. It's got some strong language that I wasn't prepared for, but I really, really liked the book and the insight it provided into the mind of AS.