Author Event: Meg Eden Kuyatt

Geared toward 3rd-8th grade, and their grown ups, but all are welcome.  |  Registration is not required, but feel free to register for reminders.

Meet guest author, Meg Eden Kuyatt, author of Good Different, an extraordinary novel-in-verse about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate her difference.  

Hear about Ms. Kuyatt's inspiration for writing this novel, her journey discovering she is autistic, and join the Q&A to get your questions answered. This author event is empowering for neurodivergent students and a great opportunity for all students to better understand their peers. 

Good Different is the winner of several honors, including, the 2024 ALA Schneider Family Book Award Honor for a book that embodies the disability experience, and one of School Library Journal's Best Middle Grade Books of 2023.  

* The Autism Society of Maryland will also join us to bring greater awareness of resources for students living with autism and the grownups who love them. 

Good Different

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. 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.

As her familiar world starts to crumble, Selah starts to figure out more about who she is, she comes to understand that different doesn't mean damaged.  Excerpt from www.megedenbooks.com

Find the book in our collection HERE