Huntington Beach Reads One Book announces the 2012 featured book: “Emergence: Labeled Autistic” by Temple Grandin.

Temple's groundbreaking book chronicles the remarkable and inspiring true story of how she overcame the challenge of autism. She was diagnosed with autism at the age of three. An obviously intelligent child with a thirst for knowledge, bu unable to properly express herself or control her behavior, Temple struggled through grade school.

Eventually moved from a "normal" school to an educational program for children with autism, she began to suffer "nerve attacks." Now Temple tells the story of emerging from a fear-gripped child to become a successful professional and a world leader in not one, but two, entirely different fields. A chronical of perservance and courage, Emergence has given new hope and insight into autism for hundreds of thousands of people world-wide.
But even more, perspective on the vast potential of the human spirit.