Friday, 27 April 2012

Consumed by a Disorder



Kissing Doorknobs
Author: Terry Spencer Hesser
Publisher: Laurel-Leaf Books
Date: 1998

I felt like roadkill that was still alive. A human car wreck.

When Tara Sullivan was eleven, she heard the rhyme ‘Step on a crack, break your mother’s back’. It invaded her mind, filling her with the fear and certainty that if she didn’t step over and count every crack in the sidewalk, she would break her mother’s back. Tara knows it isn’t rational, but she can’t control it, and as time goes on her “quirks” multiply and begin to take over her life. Told from now 14 year old Tara’s viewpoint, Kissing Doorknobs shows the effects Obsessive Compulsive Disorder has on both the sufferer and their family.

Recommended for: 12-15 years
If you like this book, try: Total Constant Order by Chrissa-Jean Chappell
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