Good Differentis the perfect next read for fans of Counting by 7s or Jasmine Warga. She is the author of the 2021 Towson Prize for Literature winning poetry collection Drowning in the Floating World (Press 53, 2020) and children’s novels, most recently Good Different (Scholastic, 2023). This is a moving and unputdownable story about learning to celebrate the things that make us different. Meg Eden Kuyatt is a 2020 Pitch Wars mentee, and teaches creative writing at Anne Arundel Community College. Can she get her school to understand that, too, before it's too late? Selah's friends pull away from her, her school threatens expulsion, and her comfortable, familiar world starts to crumble.īut as Selah starts to figure out more about who she is, she comes to understand that different doesn't mean damaged. Until the day she explodes and hits a fellow student. Selah feels like a dragon stuck in a world of humans, but she knows how to hide it. 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. 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. Little by little she learns about who she is and what she needs to succeed in the classroom and at home. "The next Wonder." - Good Morning AmericaĪn extraordinary novel-in-verse for fans of Starfish and A Kind of Spark about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate her difference. Meg Eden Kuyatt’s novel in verse, Good Different, is a great coming-of-age story about a neurodivergent girl who knows she’s different, but who worries that means people won’t like her.
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