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    Naoki Higashida

    Naoki Higashida was born in Kimitsu, Japan in 1992. Diagnosed with severe autism when he was five, he subsequently learned to communicate using a handmade alphabet grid and began to write poems and short stories. At the age of thirteen he wrote The Reason I Jump, which was published in Japan in 2007. Its English translation came out in 2013, and it has now been published in more than thirty languages. Higashida has since published several books in Japan, including children’s and picture books, poems, and essays. The subject of an award-winning Japanese television documentary in 2014, he continues to give presentations throughout the country about his experience of autism.
    Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8
    Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8
    A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism
    Naoki Higashida
    9780812987195
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Mar 26, 2019
    Random House Trade Paperbacks
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    The Reason I Jump
    The Reason I Jump
    The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
    Naoki Higashida
    9780812985153
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Mar 22, 2016
    Random House Trade Paperbacks
    Grades 6-12 + AP/IB

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    Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8
    Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8
    A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism
    Naoki Higashida
    9780812987195
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Mar 26, 2019
    Random House Trade Paperbacks
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    The Reason I Jump
    The Reason I Jump
    The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
    Naoki Higashida
    9780812985153
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Mar 22, 2016
    Random House Trade Paperbacks
    Grades 6-12 + AP/IB

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