Language: PG (5 swears 0 'f'); Mature Content: G; Violence: PG.
BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS - ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
15yo Allison was a great student - lots of friends, on the Cross Country team, conscientious scholar with a 5 year plan in place, until one night she dreams she has brain cancer and wakes believing it is a warning and she has to do certain things to keep from contracting cancer. She hears a voice that tells her what she must and must not do, like not stepping on cracks, taking only a certain number of steps at a time, avoiding the color green, not using blue ink. This takes a toll on everything, her school work, her friendships, her hygiene, even her relationship with her parents. But will the voices let her accept help?
Allison Britz has written an engaging memoir, troubling yet hopeful. Watching her OCD develop over a couple months, listening to Allison engage with the monsters in her head while she disengages with reality was haunting and scary. I listened to the audio book provided by libro.fm and was thoroughly captivated. Although Allison is in high school, the content is appropriate for 6th grade and above.
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Put this on hold with my e book library. I will read anything that has any mention of cross country in it, and this sounds like one my students would find interesting. Thanks for the review.
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