OCDaniel

It was a pretty good book. I liked the way OCD was talked about. I liked Sara too and her ‘special' stuff. I liked the mystery of finding Sara's dead father. It was interesting. What I didn't like that I gave it only 4 stars is the crushes and football. I waited for Daniel to just tell his dad that he doesn't like football and just leave it. I wanted that Daniel to tell his parents about his OCD but still it was a great read. I understood why Daniel still wasn't ready, it's not easy to tell your parents you're not ‘normal'... And I liked that he finally doesn't feel alone...

If I could give this more stars, I would. It is amazing! We get a very real and very intimate look at what OCD feels like. Daniel is going through so much and keeping it so quiet because he thinks he is just bad at dealing with life. Daniel feels like a real kid and I want to give him a hug! I want to hand this to every person I know, so they get an inside look at mental illness.

★ ★ ★ 1/2 (rounded up)
This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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WHAT'S OCDANIEL ABOUT?
I found myself saying way too much about this book—I've taken two attempts at this part of the post, and each gets too detailed. It's hard to stop talking about this, apparently.

So let me fall back on the tried-but-true (albeit lazy) method of borrowing the description from the Publisher's website:

Daniel is the back-up punter for the Erie Hills Elephants. Which really means he's the water boy. He spends football practice perfectly arranging water cups—and hoping no one notices. Actually, he spends most of his time hoping no one notices his strange habits—he calls them Zaps: avoiding writing the number four, for example, or flipping a light switch on and off dozens of times over. He hopes no one notices that he's crazy, especially his best friend Max, and Raya, the prettiest girl in school. His life gets weirder when another girl at school, who is unkindly nicknamed Psycho Sara, notices him for the first time. She doesn't just notice him: she seems to peer through him.

Then Daniel gets a note: “I need your help,” it says, signed, Fellow Star Child—whatever that means. And suddenly Daniel, a total no one at school, is swept up in a mystery that might change everything for him.

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OCDANIEL