Wired Different

Some brains are like calm ponds. Others are like waterfalls.

If there's a boy in your life whose brain runs a hundred miles an hour - who forgets his homework, blurts out answers, can't sit still, loses track of time, and sometimes wonders if there's something wrong with him - then this book was written for him.

Wired Different is a collection of twelve short, honest, big-hearted stories about boys with ADHD. Milo can't stop losing things. Theo blurts out every answer before he can catch it. Jayden can't sit still through a single assembly. Marcus feels his temper rise like a volcano. Each boy faces a real struggle - the embarrassing, frustrating kind that fast-brained kids know by heart - and each one discovers that the very thing that felt like his biggest weakness might just be his greatest strength.

Along the way, they pick up practical tricks kids can actually use: simple systems for the things they always forget, a way to hold in a blurt, a plan for cooling down before the volcano blows, and the courage to speak up for the way their brain works. A "Fast-Brain Toolbox" at the back gathers every strategy in one place, and discussion questions help kids and grown-ups talk it through together.

Written for readers ages 9 to 12, Wired Different carries one message on every page: being wired differently isn't being wired wrong. Hand it to any child who has ever felt like the problem kid - and help him see, instead, that a waterfall isn't a mistake. It's just water that decided to be powerful.

Give the fast-brained kid in your life a story where he's the hero.