[LM_NET] LM_Net: Re OCD Fiction for 8th grader

[Ronda Foust <ryfoust@COMCAST.NET>]

A while back I did a booktalk/review for a book called Total Constant Order by 
Crissa-Jean Chappell.  Here's the text (I've included a link to the Bookdragon Blog 
if this text doesn't come through).  
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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 Total Constant 
Order 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 on October 23, 2007, is a worthy addition to any young 
adult collection.
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Here's a link to review on my blog:  

http://thebookdragon.blogspot.com/2007/07/total-constant-order-by-chrissa-jean.html#links
--
Ronda Y. Foust, Librarian
Hardin Valley Elementary School
Knoxville, TN
http://hveslibrary.wikispaces.com/
http://thebookdragon.blogspot.com/

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