Suzanne Crowley

In the small town of Jumbo, Texas, thirteen-year-old Merilee, who has Asperger's Syndrome, tries to live a "Very Ordered Existence, " but disruptions begin when a boy and his father arrive in town and the youngster makes himself a part of the family.

Jane is the first reimagining of the legendary Tarzan story from Jane's point of view, and the first version by a female writer that's fully authorized and endorsed by the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate. Set in the early 1900s, Jane is both a page-turning adventure novel (complete with lush jungle settings, a devious villain, and turn-of-the-century science) and an unlikely yet intimate love story.