“The Running Boy” by Blaudy Rodriguez

A children’s book about a boy with autism whose love of running makes it difficult to make friends at his new school. Yael is so excited for his first day of school that he wants to run all the way there! He can’t wait to meet his new classmates, but some of the other kids think Yael’s love of running is “weird.” In fact, they think Yael himself is weird. Yael knows that he is certainly different—he has autism. This doesn’t stop Yael from having fun on his own, and he may just meet someone who doesn’t think he’s all that different after all!

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