Good Different

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A debut novel-in-verse about understanding and celebrating your own difference. Selah knows her rules for being normal. This means keeping her feelings locked tightly inside, despite the way they build up inside her as each school day goes on, so that she has to run to the bathroom and hide in the stall until she can calm down. 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. As her comfortable, familiar world crumbles around her, Selah starts to figure out more about who she is. She comes to understand that different doesn't mean damaged. Can she get her school to understand that, too, before it's too late A moving and unputdownable story for fans of Can You See Me and A Kind of Spark about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate her difference. An exciting new voice in children's literature "Selah is funny, insightful, and poetic in her quest to balance fitting in and staying true to herself." - Laura Shovan, co-author of Sydney Taylor Notable novel A Place at the Table

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

"This beautifully written novel-in-verse follows one girl's journey as she learns that she's on the autism spectrum and comes to embrace herself. Readers will rejoice with Selah as she learns to accept herself as she is." - Booklist, starred review

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

"Relatable, profound and beautifully heartfelt. I loved it." --Elle McNicoll, author of the Schneider Family Book Award Honor-winning A Kind of Spark

"A powerful addition to literature about the autism experience. Selah is funny, insightful, and poetic in her quest to balance fitting in and staying true to herself." --Laura Shovan, co-author of Sydney Taylor Notable novel A Place at the Table

"Meg Eden Kuyatt portrays the experience of being an autistic girl with authenticity and heart. Her beautiful verse paints a vivid picture of the challenges and the joys of being autistic. Selah is a hero that readers will root for and remember." --Sarah Kapit, author of Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!

"Throughout Good Different, Selah learns it's okay to stand up and it's okay to stand out. Meg Kuyatt's powerful debut finds Selah answering the age-old question: Why be normal when you can soar like a dragon" --Eric Bell, author of Alan Cole Is not a Coward

Author Bio

Meg Eden Kuyatt is a neurodivergent author and college-level creative writing instructor. She is a 2020 Pitch Wars mentee, and the author of poetry books. When she isn't writing, she's probably playing Fire Emblem. If she could be a Pokmon, she'd be Charizard. Find her online at www.megedenbooks.com or on Instagram at @meden_author.