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Kids Like Us
Paperback Edition: 1
Kids Like Us is the delightful, heartwarming story of Martin, a teenager on the autism spectrum, who falls for Gilberte-Alice, a 'normal' French girl. While spending summer in the French countryside with his mother, Martin mistakes Gilberte for a character in a novel he is
obsessed with - Marcel Proust's masterpiece In Search of Lost Time. He gradually realises she is not Gilberte, the fantasy girl, but a real person named Alice. Falling in love, in all its unpredictability, teaches Martin that he can in fact connect, can get out of his bubble.
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Pages : 256
Publisher : Text Publishing Company
Publication date : 2017-10-30
Subjects: Fiction, Non-fiction, Children's & Young Adult, Reference, Children's & Young Adult Fiction, Children's / Young Adult Reference, General Fiction (Children's / Young Adult), Personal & Social Issues: Disability & Special Needs (Children's / Young Adult)