[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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