Contains a collection of brief, narrative, step-by-step stories the help children with autism learn important social skills, describing a situation, skill, or concept in terms of social clues, perspectives, and common responses.
Charlie, twelve, who has autism and obsessive compulsive disorder, must endure a cross-country trip with his siblings and a strange babysitter to visit their father, who will undergo brain surgery.
"... Through alternating narratives based on their own lives and the similar experiences of other teens, Ryan Elizabeth Pette and her twin brother, RJ, who has autism, bravely and honestly reveal what it means to be a teen living with the disorder ..."--Jacket flap.
