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Heidi’s brother, Donald, is 16 and Autistic. She has always loved playing with him, but now she's 11 and her life is changing. She’s embarrassed to have her brother around and doesn’t want her friends to know about him. High school boys bully him. When the kids at her school find out about him, she gets bullied too. It’s not fair. No one seems to understand. But Heidi needs to understand too. She can't change her brother, but she can change how she feels about him, and she can get people to see why her brother is special.A perfect book for people who enjoyed the best-selling children's novel Wonder by R. J. Palacio or the Newberry Honor Award winning novel Rules by Cynthia Lord.Winner! of the 2017 Literary Classics Awards Seal of ApprovalWinner! 2017 Literary Classics Awards - Silver Medal for Preteen FictionWinner! 2017 Purple Dragonfly Children's Book Awards (Honorable Mention for Special Needs Awareness category)

D. G. Driver is an award-winning author of Young Adult and Middle Grade fiction and member of SCBWI. Her other books include Purple Dragonfly Children’s Book Award winner Cry of the Sea, Whisper of the Woods, Echo of the Cliffs and Passing Notes. She also has short fiction in a number of anthologies and some nonfiction published under the name Donna Getzinger. She lives near Nashville and is a teacher in an inclusive classroom of typically developing and special needs children in an Early Intervention program. She calls on her experience as a Special Education teacher and growing up with an Autistic brother in her new novel No One Needed to Know. When she’s not writing or teaching, she might be found singing and acting in a local community theater musical with members of her talented family. You can learn more about her at www.dgdriver.com