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Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Valencia, a timid debt collector with crippling OCD, is afraid of many things, but the two that scare her most are flying and turning thirty-five. To confront those fears, Valencia's therapist suggests that she fly somewhere-anywhere-before her upcoming birthday. And as Valencia begins a telephone romance with a man from New York, she suddenly has a destination in mind. There's only one problem--he might not actually exist. Mrs. Valentine is an eccentric...
Author
Series
Publisher
Instant Help Books, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For teens with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), it's easy to get caught up in a spiral of loud thoughts. From the author of the highly successful teen self-help guide Stuff That Sucks, comes Stuff That's Loud-a fun and unique book filled with engaging illustrations to help teens break free from the intrusive thoughts and behaviors that accompany OCD. With this guide, teens will find validation and support, learn mindfulness tips to "unspiral"...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Vivian doesn't feel like she fits in--and never has. As a child, she was so whimsical that her parents told her she was "left by fairies." Now, living alone in Dublin, the neighbors treat her like she's crazy, her older sister condescends to her, social workers seem to have registered her as troubled, and she hasn't a friend in the world. So, she decides it's time to change her life: She begins by advertising for a friend. Not just any friend. She...
44) Breathe
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First St. Martin's Griffin movie tie-in edition.
Physical Desc
122 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Breathe" is the haunting confession of nineteen-year-old Charlene Boher. From her prison cell, Charlene recounts her lonely adolescence. Growing up shy and unpopular, Charlene never had many friends. That is, until she meet Sarah, a beautiful and charismatic American-French girl who moved back to Paris for high school. Much to Charlene's shock and delight, the two girls quickly develop an intense friendship. With Sarah by her side, Charlene finally...
45) Wave
Author
Publisher
Cameron + Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
313 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When her best friend's cancer returns in the summer of 1987, none of her usual pursuits--surfing, singing, or reading poetry--can keep thirteen-year-old Ava afloat.
Thirteen-year-old Ava loves to surf and to sing. Singing and reading Rumi poems settle her mild OCD, and catching waves with her best friend, Phoenix, lets her fit inher olive skin looks tan, not foreign. But then Ava has to spend the summer before ninth grade volunteering at the hospital,...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Danielle Levine stands out even at her alternative high school--in appearance and attitude--but when her scathing and sometimes raunchy English essays land her in a social skills class, she meets Daniel, another social misfit who may break her resolve to keep everyone at arm's length.
47) Double Felix
Author
Publisher
Kane Miller, A division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
188 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Felix Twain's life revolves around the number two. He skips every second step when he takes the stairs, taps door handles twice and positions objects in pairs. The problem has become so bad that Felix is on the verge of being expelled from school because the principal has had enough of trying to run the school around his very specific rules. Then Charlie Pye arrives and turns Felix's world upside down. She's grown up with very few...
48) Addition
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st HarperLuxe ed.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Grace Lisa Vandenburg orders her world with numbers: how many bananas she buys, how many steps she takes to the café, where she chooses to sit, how many poppy seeds are in her daily piece of orange cake. Only Hilary, her favorite niece, connects with her. And Grace can only connect with Nikola Tesla, the turn-of-the-twentieth-century inventor whose portrait sits on her bedside table and who rescues her in her dreams. Then one day all the tables at...
49) She lies close
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Five-year-old Ava Boone has been missing for six months. There are have been no leads, no arrests, no witnesses. The only suspect was quiet, middle-aged Leland Ernest. And Grace Wright has just bought the house next door. Recently divorced, Grace uprooted her two small children to start again and hopes the move will reset her crippling insomnia. But now she understands the bargain-price for her beautiful new house. With whispered neighbourhood gossip...
Author
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in multiple voices, seventeen-year-olds Dayna Walsh and Meiner King, witches from rival covens, team up in a small Irish town to seek a serial killer with motives enmeshed in a web of magic and gods.
Dayna Walsh struggles with somatic OCD, the aftermath of being outed as bisexual in her conservative Irish town. Her long-absent mother has returned, but all that matters to Dayna is ascending and finally becoming a full witch. Then another coven,...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Kevin is frustrated by his need to check things and repeat actions over and over until a counselor diagnoses obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and teaches him ways to manage this condition. Includes a note for parents and teachers explaining OCD.
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
ix, 277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Melati Ahmad believes that she harbors a djinn inside her, one who threatens her with horrific images of her mother's death unless she adheres to an elaborate ritual of counting and tapping to keep him satisfied. On the evening of May 13th, 1969, racial tensions in her home city of Kuala Lumpur boil over. The Chinese and Malays are at war, and Mel and her mother become separated. With the city in flames and a curfew in effect, it will take the help...
54) Perfect escape
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kendra, living in the shadow of her brother's obsessive-compulsive disorder, takes a life-changing road trip with him.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Rene, a high school freshman with obsessive-compulsive disorder, finds life to be like a scary movie, and even after he makes friends with the ultra-cool Giovanni he still feels responsible for saving his favorite teacher, dealing with his missing father, courting the beautiful Ariel, and trying to pretend to be normal for the school psychologist.
56) OCD love story
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In an instant, Bea felt almost normal with Beck, and as if she could fall in love again, but things change when the psychotherapist who has been helping her deal with past romantic relationships puts her in a group with Beck--a group for teens with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Rose Wilks' life is shattered when her newborn baby Joel is admitted to intensive care. Emma Hatcher has all that Rose lacks. Beauty. A loving husband. A healthy son. Until tragedy strikes and Rose is the only suspect. Now, having spent nearly five years behind bars for the murder of her best friend's child, Rose is just weeks away from freedom. But is she really reformed? Her probation officer Cate must decide whether Rose is remorseful for Luke's...
59) Multiple choice
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 388 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Ruth knows her prayers are crucial to her family's welfare. But she doesn't realize that her heartfelt desire to obey God is mingled with the dangerous currents of Obsessive Compuslive Disorder. Will her strategies for protecting her family be the very thing that tears them apart?