[LM_NET] SHARE: Total Constant Order by Chrissa-Jean Chappell

["Ronda Y. Foust" <rfoust150@COMCAST.NET>]

As posted to my bookdragon blog (address below).

> Fin knows that something is wrong, she just doesn’t know what.  She  
> can’t stop counting.  Some of the teachers at her new school think  
> she just isn’t paying attention, but Fin knows that maybe she’s  
> paying too much attention--to everything. Her dad wants to be  
> buddies with his new girlfriend.  Her mother wants her to go to  
> counseling.  Her counselor wants her to take Paxil, but her mother  
> doesn’t want her to take meds at all.  Fin feels like she’s all  
> alone--until she begins a “conversation” with a tagger on the stall  
> wall of one of the girls’ bathrooms.  Maybe she’s not so alone  
> after all, but will she ever be able to stop counting everything?   
> Will she take the meds?  Will she meet this tagger?  Read <u>Total  
> Constant Order</u> by Crissa-Jean Chappell and see.
>
> Chappell does for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) what Jack  
> Gantos and his character, Joey Pigza, do for attention deficit  
> hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).  Neither Gantos nor Chappell presume  
> to solve their characters’ problems, nor do they preach or sugar- 
> coat.  They do not push any particular treatments.  What they do is  
> to skillfully offer the reader a glimpse into the minds of young  
> people as they learn that, maybe, they’re not crazy--and that they  
> aren’t alone.  Total Constant Order, scheduled for release in  
> December 2007, is a worthy addition to any young adult collection.




Ronda Y. Foust
School Media Specialist
Karns High School
Knoxville, TN
readingdragon@comcast.net
http://thebookdragon.blogspot.com/



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