Total Constant Order

“This must-have story is fresh. Chappell’s first novel is a breakthrough.” Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Crissa-Jean Chappell
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 13
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2007
• EAN: 9780060886059
• ISBN: 978-0-06-088605-9
• No. of pages: 278
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 191 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / Friendship *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / Assimilation *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / Violence *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / Depression *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / Pregnancy *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Family / Marriage & Divorce *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Health & Daily Living / General *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / Mental Illness *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / Runaways *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Disabilities & Special Needs