When gifted five-year-old Pegasus is promoted overnight from kindergarten to third grade, where she faces bullies and befriends an older classmate with special needs, she learns important lessons about courage, loyalty, faith, forgiveness . . . and the many different ways of being "special."

At age 34, Marvin X. Brodinsky has the mind of a small boy-and a passion for unlocking the universe's secrets. His dream: for help inventing a formula that will raise his mental age, so he can become a "real" scientist. Enter 10-year-old Dirk Fowler, a gifted science student whose dream is for a "real" dad-one who won't abandon him or his reclusive, poetry-writing mom. When the Fowlers move in with their Great Aunt Helen (philanthropist, militant Creationist and, at age 100, Ferris Island's most formidable resident), Dirk and Marvin develop a special friendship. But can the two best friends...

Katie is not your normal modern woman. She doesn't drive a car, carry a purse, or use a smartphone. Her face is painted only by the sunshine. She prefers spiders and slugs to shopping sprees. And as a wife, she's the "exasperating one." Even as an "Aspie" (person with Asperger syndrome), Katie dwells outside the box. Puzzled by prime numbers, mystified by maps and math, her place on the autism spectrum is colored instead with word-pictures and imagination. In a series of stories and essays drawn from her own life, Katie invites readers into her quirky world. A world of wise trees and quantum...

Clarence Briggs, a wheelchair-bound nursing home resident with Down syndrome, plays make-believe games to cope with his terrible -Top Secret--the former physical therapist who brutally molested him. But when Clarence sees this same therapist hosting a TV documentary about his present work with preschoolers who have Down syndrome, Clarence must decide whether to rescue the children-while risking further harm to himself-by divulging his -Top Secret- in court.