Asperger's book for nine year old girl

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DD is not diagnosed as yet, and up until now has coped fine, but she is starting to show signs of anxiety, so this is the point where I would like to get her referred. In the meantime I would like her to read about aspergers in girls (she is an advanced reader) Which book do you think would be best? I have the Tony Attwood book, but the language is too advanced for her. Rudy Simone, Girl with the Curly Hair, Tanya Marshall, do you think she would understand any of those?

Hi tdi I have a Dd with Asd/Aspergers.
She really loves the book "Inside Aspergers, Looking out"

It is actually a very simple book with fantastic photographs but it gives some very good info.

Good luck

Thanks for the suggestions, will investigate them all

I second the recommendation for Inside Aspergers LookingOut. Thought it looked too simple and a bit patronising myself (NT!) but it resonated so strongly with my DD - she wanted to show it to everyone so they would 'understand' her.

We told our DS when he was just about to turn 9. We got him the Dude I'm an Aspie book. It's cartoon style and although DS has very high IQ etc we wanted to give him something straightforward and written by someone with ASD to start with.