Do you think this is strange?
By: Aaron Cully Drake
Publisher: Brindle & Glass
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781927366400; 9781927366394; 9781927366387
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Adolescents handicapés; High school students; Bildungsromans; FICTION; Autistic children; Écoles secondaires; Friendship; Amitié; Mémoire; General; Romans, nouvelles; Fiction; Secrets de famille; Autisme
Description: Freddy is having a rough year. First, he is expelled from school for fighting. Now, at his new school, he is required to have regular conversations with a counselor--an awkward situation for anyone, really, but even more so for Freddy, who has autism. Not only that, Freddy's mom left years ago and his dad drinks too much. But then Saskia--a fair-haired girl Freddy hasn't seen in ten years--appears at his new school. As children they attended the same group therapy sessions, and now she is hardly the same person he remembers. She doesn't smile. And she doesn't talk. But their reunion provides him with respite in a difficult time, and sets a chain of meetings and events into motion that reveals long-repressed memories and brings Freddy to a unexpectedly freeing moment of truth. A funny and touching coming-of-age story you won't forget.
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Shortlisted for the 2016 Amazon.ca First Novel Award

Longlisted for the 2016 Leacock Medal for Humour Writing

Winner of an Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY)
Table of contents: title: Intro; My Mornings; Templeton College: The Last Day; The Hampton Park Ant Colony; The Jim Worley Practice; Then the Sofa and the Book; The New Sanctuary; Church, Beforehand; Church, Afterhand; Thinking of Excalibur House; The Day of Note in the Lunchroom; What Are You Looking At, Sport?; And Now Saskia Before Me; The Poem As A Bookend; Chemistry Class With A Frothy Mind; An Accounting Of My Day in Three Parts; The Three Things; The Day I Learned Who Lived Up By the Cliffs; The Days When My Mother Danced; Saskia at the Table Again; The Status Update of the Day.; title: The Transfer of Saskia Stiles to My Chemistry ClassThe Sunday Morning Inquisition; The Talisman; The Candles That Rested on My Twin Brother; This, My Mother; Paramedics; Why My Mother Left; The Beating Inflection; The Day After The Beating; My Father as an Objectively Good Man; Three Days Alone on the Trail; The Book Prison; The Chem Class Revelation; Homeroom; The Halls Of Hampton Park; The Futility Of Conversation With Danny Hardwick; The Pause By A Bench; A Temporary Phonenapping; Type H For Help; Jack Sweat; The Only Joke I Ever Told My Mom; The First Two Knockdowns.; title: Best Three Out of FiveThe Third Knockdown; Beer Bully; A Text Conversation; A Text At Night; My First Poem In Recursive; Neither an Artist Nor a Poet; The Belfry; H; The Boys in the Cafeteria; Then Danny Stood Up; The Eyes; Danny Had A Shark Nose, Too; Squeak; Hospital Room: Night; From Jim Worley to the Vice Principal; The Mending Before the School Office; The Ride Home With Bill; Scholastic Déjà Vu; Oscar Tolstoy Again; The Disciplinary Hearing; Saskia in My Mind; The Ride Home, Neither Long Nor Short; The Threat; The Loose Tooth; Jack Sweat's Room; The Consequences Of A Kiss.; title: The Last Conversation With the ButcherThe Front Of My Locker; The Milk Run; The Stiles Residence; A Poem, Ten Years Old; Time To Go Home; The Quiet of the Living Room at Night; The Living Room Noise; Jim Worley Says You Should Go; Stalking Chad Kennedy; The Days After She Left; Dad Says Have A Drink; The Last Day With My Mother; Moments; The Changing List of My Favourite Things; The Train; My Father; The Fight; The Fight Continued; The Night Before She Left; The Floor; Linda Stiles After Ten Years; The Web; Saskia Swinging; The Butcher's; The Home of the Trolls; Acknowledgments.