Slug Days | 
“I knew it was going to be a slug day as soon as I climbed on the school bus. Mike wasn‘t there. The new driver didn‘t know our secret hand-shake. He didn‘t pretend to close the door before I was inside. He didn‘t know the front seat was reserved for me.”
This is a really important book to have in a classroom as it teaches about a common disorder that many children in school may have. This book can show children how other children with this disorder live life and how they cope.
pickGenre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction
This story is about a girl named Lauren who has Autism Spectrum Disorder. She has good days, which she describes as “butterfly days”, and she has bad days, which she describes as “slug days”. But through it all, she learns to cope with her disability in order to thrive at home, school and life in general.
