As posted to my bookdragon blog (address below).
> Fin knows that something is wrong, she just doesn’t know what. She
> can’t stop counting. Some of the teachers at her new school think
> she just isn’t paying attention, but Fin knows that maybe she’s
> paying too much attention--to everything. Her dad wants to be
> buddies with his new girlfriend. Her mother wants her to go to
> counseling. Her counselor wants her to take Paxil, but her mother
> doesn’t want her to take meds at all. Fin feels like she’s all
> alone--until she begins a “conversation” with a tagger on the stall
> wall of one of the girls’ bathrooms. Maybe she’s not so alone
> after all, but will she ever be able to stop counting everything?
> Will she take the meds? Will she meet this tagger? Read <u>Total
> Constant Order</u> by Crissa-Jean Chappell and see.
>
> Chappell does for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) what Jack
> Gantos and his character, Joey Pigza, do for attention deficit
> hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Neither Gantos nor Chappell presume
> to solve their characters’ problems, nor do they preach or sugar-
> coat. They do not push any particular treatments. What they do is
> to skillfully offer the reader a glimpse into the minds of young
> people as they learn that, maybe, they’re not crazy--and that they
> aren’t alone. Total Constant Order, scheduled for release in
> December 2007, is a worthy addition to any young adult collection.
Ronda Y. Foust
School Media Specialist
Karns High School
Knoxville, TN
readingdragon@comcast.net
http://thebookdragon.blogspot.com/
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