Buster and the Amazing Daisy: Adventures With Asperger Syndrome

130 Pages·2002·1.07 MB·English

by  Nancy Ogaz

Buster and the Amazing Daisy

Buster and the Amazing Daisy
Nancy Ogaz
Illustrations by Patricia Shubeck
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
London and Philadelphia
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First published in the United Kingdom in 2002
by Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Copyright © Nancy Ogaz 2002
Illustrations copyright © Patricia Shubeck 2002
Second edition 2003
Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ogaz, Nancy, 1955-
Buster and the amazing Daisy / Nancy Ogaz
p.cm.
Summary: When Daisy, who is autistic, joins a mainstreamed class and trains Buster
the rabbit for a pet show, she faces new challenges and makes new freinds.
ISBN 1-84310-721-X (alk paper)
[1. Autism--Fiction. 2. Mainstreaming in education--Fiction. 3. Schools--Fiction. 4.
Freindship--Fiction. 5. Rabbits--Fiction. 6. Pet shows--Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.O3314 Bu 2002
[Fic]--dc21 2002021870
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN-13: 978 1 84310 721 7
ISBN-10: 1 84310 721 X
ISBN pdfeBook: 1 84642 047 4
Printed and Bound in Great Britain by
Athenaeum Press, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear
Dedicated to my son, Devon

Contents
Chapter 1: Beware of the Bully-Pops 9
Chapter 2: Safe in the Fortress 15
Chapter 3: Friends and Fists 23
Chapter 4: The Principal’s Office 33
Chapter 5: Hampton Sweeney’s Tongue 39
Chapter 6: Scritchy-Scratchy Noises 51
Chapter 7: The School of Doom and Despair 59
Chapter 8: The Sad Stranger 67
Chapter 9: Daisy and the Really Great
and Truly Wonderful Idea 73
Chapter 10: Time of Trouble 83
Chapter 11: Bunny in the Brambles 91
Chapter 12: By the Light of the Moon 99
Chapter 13: Lizards, Tarantulas, and Goats!
Oh, My! 107
Chapter 14: That’s What Friends Are For 115
Author’s note 121
Acknowledgements 125