No One Needed to Know
Description:
Heidi’s brother, Donald, is 16 and Autistic. She has always loved playing with him, but now she's 11 and her life is changing. She’s embarrassed to have her brother around and doesn’t want her friends to know about him. High school boys bully him. When the kids at her school find out about him, she gets bullied too. It’s not fair. No one seems to understand. But Heidi needs to understand too. She can't change her brother, but she can change how she feels about him, and she can get people to see why her brother is special.A perfect book for people who enjoyed the best-selling children's novel Wonder by R. J. Palacio or the Newberry Honor Award winning novel Rules by Cynthia Lord.Winner! of the 2017 Literary Classics Awards Seal of ApprovalWinner! 2017 Literary Classics Awards - Silver Medal for Preteen FictionWinner! 2017 Purple Dragonfly Children's Book Awards (Honorable Mention for Special Needs Awareness category)