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Elly Swartz

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Elly Swartz is the acclaimed author of six middle grade novels: Finding Perfect, Smart Cookie, Give and Take, Dear Student, Hidden Truths, and Stand By Me (coming 2025).

Swartz’s books reflect her commitment to raising awareness about mental health and neurodiversity. Her debut novel, Finding Perfect, was named one of the Best Children’s Books About Mental Health by the Child Mind Institute, Dear Student was recommended by Parents Magazine, and Hidden Truths has received starred reviews from Kirkus and from School Library Journal, and is an Amazon Best Book for November and and Amazon Editors� pick.

Swartz travels the country meeting with thousands of students each year to empower their own personal narrative. Swartz resides in Massachusett
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Average rating: 4.18 · 4,625 ratings · 984 reviews · 6 distinct works â€� Similar authors
Finding Perfect

4.24 avg rating — 2,228 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions
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Smart Cookie

4.10 avg rating — 572 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions
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Dear Student

4.01 avg rating — 578 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions
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Hidden Truths

4.12 avg rating — 536 ratings — published 2023 — 7 editions
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Give and Take

4.20 avg rating — 522 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions
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Same Page

4.26 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 2025 — 4 editions
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“When your family is unfinished you have to finish it by getting messy... with (and without) cookies.”
Elly Swartz, Smart Cookie

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“Why do you do that?

Do what?

Blow off compliments.

I don't.

You kind of do.

Sorry.

Don't apologize. Just learn to say thanks.”
Marisa Reichardt, Underwater
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“It turned out I wasn't dying on the outside. I was only dying on the inside, where nobody could see.”
Marisa Reichardt, Underwater

“It was exactly one month since the Worst Thing had happened, and almost as long since I'd started not-talking. Which isn't refusing to talk, like everyone thinks it is. It's just deciding not to fill the world with words if you don't have to. It is the opposite of constant-talking, which is what I used to do, and it's better than small talk, which is what people wished I did.”
Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish

“I'd always thought that being seen was about what people perceived with their eyes. But by the time the Eugene Field Memorial Middle School made the fall trip to the aquarium, I, Suzy Swanson, had disappeared entirely. Being seen is more about the ears than the eyes, it turns out.”
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