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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her best and most fearless friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett's son, Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective,...
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book examines the causes and symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), looks at the everyday realities of people with OCD, and explores the management and treatment options available today.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Tom Cavanagh--a survivor of past trauma who suffers from anxiety--befriends Alice, a new girl at his school and the former inhabitant of his home, hoping to rescue her from the secrets she seems to be concealing.
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Language
English
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"Addie loves nothing more than curling up on the couch with her dog, Duck, and watching The Great British Baking Show with her mom. It's one of the few things that can help her relax when her OCD kicks into overdrive. She counts everything. All the time. She can't stop. Rituals and rhythms. It's exhausting. When Fitz was diagnosed with schizophrenia, he named the voices in his head after famous country singers. The adolescent psychiatric ward at...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl must grapple with her agoraphobia as romance blossoms with her new neighbor in this YA novel—"a poignant work, infused with humor" (School Library Journal).
Seventeen-year-old Norah Dean hasn't left the house in years. Her agoraphobia and OCD are so intense that when groceries are left on the porch, she can't even step out to get them. Struggling to snag the bags with a stick, she meets Luke. He's sweet and funny,...
Seventeen-year-old Norah Dean hasn't left the house in years. Her agoraphobia and OCD are so intense that when groceries are left on the porch, she can't even step out to get them. Struggling to snag the bags with a stick, she meets Luke. He's sweet and funny,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Adam meets Robyn at a support group for kids coping with obsessive-compulsive disorder, he is drawn to her almost before he can take a breath. He's determined to protect and defend her -- to play Batman to her Robyn -- whatever the cost. But when you're fourteen and the everyday problems of dealing with divorced parents and step-siblings are supplemented by the challenges of OCD, it's hard to imagine yourself falling in love. How can you have...
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Series
Kathryn Dance novels volume 3
Language
English
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Catapulted into sudden fame by her beauty and talent, country pop artist Kayleigh Towne turns for help to Special Agent Kathryn Dance to stop a sadistic stalker who is targeting the people closest to the singer.
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Language
English
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A personal and practical guide to navigating the complex world of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
When Penny Moodie hears people say that they're 'a bit OCD' about cleaning or tidying, she can't help but feel frustrated. It took her twenty-three years to be diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder – a debilitating mental health condition involving intrusive thoughts and accompanying physical or mental compulsions – and the stigma and...
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Language
English
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Paul M. Gallagher wrote A Perfect Walk to encourage youth and adults to open up about their mental and emotional battles to someone trustworthy...to confide their anguish caused by childhood accidents, injuries, illnesses, etc. As early as age four, Paul battled severe anxiety that morphed monstrously into anger and suicidal depression. If you have emotional and mental issues that debilitate you a little, or a lot-Paul's story will help you realize...
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Series
Language
English
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This is my OCD story.
It is not a survival guide for others.
Just the details of my struggles and battles. This book was written during the darkest, gloomiest period of my life. It is being published so as to enable others to understand what is happening with their loved ones who suffer from OCD (not for the personal amusement of trolls and religious nuts). As I was working on my OCD survival book, "Breaking Free!" I remembered that I must share...
13) The Brave
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Collin can't help himself--he has a unique condition that leads him to count every letter spoken to him. It's a quirk that makes him a prime target for bullies and a continual frustration to the adults around him, including his father. When Collin is asked to leave yet another school, his dad decides to send him to live in Minnesota with the mother he's never met. She is Ojibwe and lives on a reservation. Collin arrives in Duluth with his loyal dog,...
14) OCDaniel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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A thirteen-year-old boy's life revolves around hiding his obsessive compulsive disorder until a girl at school, who is unkindly nicknamed Psycho Sara, notices him for the first time and he gets a mysterious note that changes everything.
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Language
English
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"The authors Marko Perko and Stephen M. Stahl, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., propose a "new- style biography" entitled T E S L A: His Tremendous and Troubled Life. They will examine Nikola Tesla in a manner that has yet to be accomplished in publishing history-asking and answering the seminal question: Who was the real man with an extremely complex psyche/personality, who lived with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and a hyperthymic temperament spilling...
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Language
English
Description
“Try Not to Think of a Pink Elephant” is a collection of real-life stories about living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Contributors are Martin Ingle on OCD and sexual intimacy; Dani Leever on contamination-based OCD; Patrick Marlborough on living with OCD in NYC; Katharine Pollock on over-achievement and control of food and body; and Sienna Rose Scully on the untimely death of her mother, an event that actualised her most persistent OCD obsession.
At...
17) Minimalist Living: The Road to Achieving a Minimalist Mindset, Implementing Habits of Highly Effe
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English
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The Ultimate Minimalist Living Guide To Being a Minimalist! Has life been feeling cluttered lately? Does everything seem overwhelming and too much to handle?
Sometimes, looking at the things around you and the way you live your life could be the key to finding the root cause of your problems. Living minimally is becoming quickly popular amongst those that wish to live a simpler life. Maybe you are feeling stuck, wishing you had more stuff, more cars,...
18) Sympathy
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Language
English
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At twenty-three, Alice Hare leaves England for New York. Blinded by the city lights, Alice becomes fixated on Mizuko Himura, a Japanese writer living in New York, whose life story has strange parallels to her own and whom she believes is her "internet twin." What seems to Mizuko like a chance encounter with Alice is anything but-after all, in the age of connectivity, nothing is coincidence. Their subsequent relationship is doomed from the outset,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
202 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As fifteen-year-old Devon begins mid-year at a new prestigious prep school, he is plagued by compulsions such as the need to sort things into groups of four.
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Language
English
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Don't let OCD be the third wheel in your relationships! This practical guide will help you build and nurture the connections you deserve.
If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), you may seek constant reassurance from others, lose time to compulsions, struggle with unwanted thoughts and intense emotions, or act out in ways that are ineffective. These symptoms can put a major strain on your relationships-whether it's with family, friends, partners,...
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