Awards

• Commended for Florida Book Award (Young Adult) 2007

Overview

Fin can't stop counting. She's always heard a voice inside her head, ordering her to listen, but ever since she's moved to the Sunshine State and her parents split up, numbers thump like a metronome, rhythmically keeping things in control. When a new doctor introduces terms such as ""clinical depression"" and ""OCD"" and offers a prescription for medication, the chemical effects make Fin feel even more messed up. Until she meets Thayer, a doodling, rule-bending skater who buzzes to his own beat--and who might just understand Fin's hunger to belong, and her struggle for total constant order. Crissa-Jean Chappell's candid and vividly told debut novel shares the story of a young teen's experience with obsessive compulsive disorder and her remarkable resolve to find her own inner strength.

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9780060886059

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Reviews

This must-have story is fresh. Chappell s first novel is a breakthrough. --Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) (Starred Review)

Plenty of kids, OCD or not, will.find the exploration of disorder and identity thought-provoking. -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Author Information

Crissa-Jean Chappell's reviews, short stories, and poems have appeared in many magazines. A professor of creative writing, she lives in Miami, Florida, where she often looks for manatees. This is her first novel.

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