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Buzzing / written by Samuel Sattin ; illustrated by Rye Hickman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextDescription: 224 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour)ISBN:
  • 9780316628419 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 741.5 23
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.7.S187 So 2023
Summary: Isaac Itkin can't get away from his thoughts. As a lonely twelve-year-old kid with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), everything from studying to looking in the mirror becomes a battle between him and a swarm of unhelpful thoughts. The strict therapy his mother insists on doesn't seem to be working, but when a group of friends invites him to join their after-school role-playing game, the thoughts feel a little less loud, and the world feels a little brighter. But Isaac's therapist says that exposure to games can have negative effects on kids with OCD, and when his grades slip, his helicopter mother won't let him play anymore. Now Isaac needs to find a way to prove to himself, to his mother, and to the world that the way to quiet the noise in his head may have been inside him all along.
List(s) this item appears in: Neurodiversity & Mental Wellbeing
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Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital Graphic Novel 741.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 15/10/2024 30499100000498

Isaac Itkin can't get away from his thoughts. As a lonely twelve-year-old kid with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), everything from studying to looking in the mirror becomes a battle between him and a swarm of unhelpful thoughts. The strict therapy his mother insists on doesn't seem to be working, but when a group of friends invites him to join their after-school role-playing game, the thoughts feel a little less loud, and the world feels a little brighter. But Isaac's therapist says that exposure to games can have negative effects on kids with OCD, and when his grades slip, his helicopter mother won't let him play anymore. Now Isaac needs to find a way to prove to himself, to his mother, and to the world that the way to quiet the noise in his head may have been inside him all along.

Ages 8-12. Little, Brown and Company.

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