Good Different
A Schneider Family Book Award Honor Book
An extraordinary novel-in-verse for fans of Starfish and A Kind of Spark about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate her difference.
Selah knows her rules for being normal.
She always, always sticks to them. 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. So that she has to tear off her normal-person mask the second she gets home from school, and listen to her favorite pop song on repeat, trying to recharge. 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.
Selah's friends pull away from her, her school threatens expulsion, and her comfortable, familiar world starts to crumble.
But as 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?
This is a moving and unputdownable story about learning to celebrate the things that make us different. Good Different is the perfect next read for fans of Counting by 7s or Jasmine Warga.
# of Pages: 288
Book Binding: Hardcover
Year of Publication: 2023
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Language: en
ISBN: 9781338816105
Meg Eden Kuyatt is an award-winning author, poet, and teacher. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing from Wilkes University and has published numerous works in various literary magazines and anthologies. Her debut novel, Post-High School Reality Quest, won the gold medal for Young Adult fiction at the Independent Publisher Book Awards. In addition to her writing, Meg also teaches creative writing at the University of Maryland. She currently resides in Maryland with her husband and their pet rabbit. Good Different is her second novel and showcases her talent for writing compelling and diverse stories.