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## ''Can You See Me?'' (May 2, 2019)
## '' Do You Know Me?'' (April 2, 2020)
## ''Ways To Be Me'' (July 1, 2021; prequel)
## ''All the Pieces of Me'' (August 4, 2022)

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## # ''Can You See Me?'' (May 2, 2019)
## # '' Do You Know Me?'' (April 2, 2020)
## # ''Ways To Be Me'' (July 1, 2021; prequel)
## # ''All the Pieces of Me'' (August 4, 2022)
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''Can You See Me?'', its sequel ''Do You Know Me?'', and the prequel ''Ways to Be Me'' are middle grade novels by Libby Scott and Rebecca Westcott. They follow Tally Adams, an autistic eleven-year-old with pathological demand avoidance starting Year Seven at Kingswood Academy. Everyone is suddenly more concerned with what everyone else thinks of them, and Tally's friends Lucy, Layla, and Ayesha have started acting uncomfortable around her.

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''Can You See Me?'', its sequel ''Do You Know Me?'', and the prequel ''Ways to Be Me'' are Me?'' is a series of middle grade novels by Libby Scott and Rebecca Westcott. They follow Tally Adams, an autistic eleven-year-old with pathological demand avoidance starting Year Seven at Kingswood Academy. Everyone is suddenly more concerned with what everyone else thinks of them, and Tally's friends Lucy, Layla, and Ayesha have started acting uncomfortable around her.

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* NonconformistDyedHair: In ''All the Pieces of Me'', NewTransferStudent Annie has rainbow coloured hair that Tally compares to a unicorn. Tally finds her a little scary, because she's never met someone who looks different on purpose, like she doesn't mind being stared at. Annie later stands up to Tally's thieving, bullying friends instead of changing who she is to fit in with them, like Tally does. Tally eventually realizes that it's better to be alone than to cut off pieces of yourself to fit in, and that Annie would make a much better friend than any of the girls in Tally's group.



* TroubledFetalPosition: In ''All the Pieces of Me'', Tally becomes increasingly burned out from overload and masking at school. One morning she wakes up and finds that she doesn't have it in her to go to school again. When her mom tries to persuade her to go, she wedges herself between the wardrobe and the bed, curls up in a tiny ball, puts her hands over her head, and enters total shutdown, unable to move and mostly unaware of what's happening around her.

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* TroubledFetalPosition: In ''All the Pieces of Me'', Tally becomes increasingly burned out from overload and masking at school. One morning she wakes up and finds that she doesn't have it in her to go to school again. When her mom mum tries to persuade her to go, she wedges herself between the wardrobe and the bed, curls up in a tiny ball, puts her hands over her head, and enters total shutdown, unable to move and mostly unaware of what's happening around her.
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* TroubledFetalPosition: In ''All the Pieces of Me'', Tally becomes increasingly burned out from overload and masking at school. One morning she wakes up and finds that she doesn't have it in her to go to school again. When her mom tries to persuade her to go, she wedges herself between the wardrobe and the bed, curls up in a tiny ball, puts her hands over her head, and enters total shutdown, unable to move and mostly unaware of what's happening around her.
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* InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: In ''All the Pieces of Me'', Lucy films Tally humming, stimming, and covering her ears and uploads it to Instagram, where her classmates post increasingly nasty comments about her. Tally is so upset that she misses three days of school. When she gets back, Lucy offers a JustJokingJustification. Tally doesn't buy it and finally ditches her "friends," but another kid films that and posts the sped-up footage on Instagram, where commenters accuse her of being ungrateful. Instead of trying to get revenge, Tally film herself singing songs that express her feelings and uploads them to [=YouTube=]; when her songs get more views than the cruel videos, Tally is satisfied that she's shown people who she really is.

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* InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: In ''All the Pieces of Me'', Lucy films Tally humming, stimming, and covering her ears and uploads it to Instagram, where her classmates post increasingly nasty comments about her. Tally is so upset that she misses three days of school. When she gets back, Lucy offers a JustJokingJustification. Tally doesn't buy it and finally ditches her "friends," but another kid films that and posts the sped-up footage on Instagram, where commenters accuse her of being ungrateful. Instead of trying to get revenge, Tally film films herself singing songs that express her feelings and uploads them to [=YouTube=]; when her songs get more views than the cruel videos, Tally is satisfied that she's shown people who she really is.
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* InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: In ''All the Pieces of Me'', Lucy films Tally humming, stimming, and covering her ears and uploads it to Instagram, where her classmates post increasingly nasty comments about her. Tally is so upset that she misses three days of school. When she gets back, Lucy offers a JustJokingJustification. Tally doesn't buy it and finally ditches her "friends," but another kid films that and posts the sped-up footage on Instagram, where commenters accuse her of being ungrateful. Instead of trying to get revenge, Tally film herself singing songs that express her feelings and uploads them to [=YouTube=]; when her songs get more views than the cruel videos, Tally is satisfied that she's shown people who she really is.

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## ''Ways To Be Me'' (July 1, 2021)

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## ''Ways To Be Me'' (July 1, 2021)2021; prequel)



* TheBroCode: In ''All the Pieces of Me'', Tally hears her older sister Nell crying and asks why. Nell explains that she's been hanging out with Tyler, a boy her best friend Rosa liked, and she thought it was okay until they got in a big fight about it and Rosa stopped talking to her or answering her texts. Tally suggests that Nell write Rosa a letter, which Nell admits is a pretty good idea.



* DeskSweepOfRage: Tally's fourteen-year-old sister Nell says she'll take Tally to get ice cream in "a few" minutes, which Tally thinks means two. When Nell still doesn't want to go after two minutes, Tally is so angry at her for saying something that's not true that she knocks the lamp off Nell's desk.

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* DeskSweepOfRage: Tally's fourteen-year-old sister Nell says she'll take Tally to get ice cream in "a few" minutes, which Tally thinks means two. When Nell still doesn't want to go after two minutes, Tally is so angry at her for saying something that's not true that she knocks the lamp off Nell's desk.

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** In ''Ways to Be Me'', Tally goes horseback riding and is paired with the "spirited" horse Peaches. Tally gets along well with Peaches, who she feels is nice but misunderstood, like herself.

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** In ''Ways to Be Me'', Tally goes horseback riding and is paired with the "spirited" horse Peaches. Tally gets along well with Peaches, who she feels is nice but misunderstood, like herself.herself
* CosmeticCatastrophe: In ''All the Pieces of Me'', Tally copies one of Lucy's make-up tutorials so she can look cool at school. But when she gets to school, the other girls laugh at her, saying she looks like a clown, or a little kid who raided her mum's room, and tell her to wash it off before anyone else notices. Tally can't tell what she did wrong no matter how hard she studies her reflection, but she scrubs her face with paper towels until she's sure all the make-up is gone.


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* FiveFingerDiscount: In ''All the Pieces of Me'', Tally's "friends" pressure her into stealing a top from a store by smuggling it out under her T-shirt. She goes along with it because she's terrified of being friendless at school. She shoves it into a bin at the first opportunity, but still hates herself for stealing it.
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* CountingSheep: Tally tries this in ''All the Pieces of Me''. It doesn't work, because the sheep keep jumping the wrong way, and she can't keep track of which ones she's already counted.

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