OCD,+The+Dude+and+Me

OCD, The Dude, and Me by Lauren Roedy Vaughn Realistic Fiction 2013

Booklist gr 7-11; SLJ gr 9+

Recommended by Amherst Town Library

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Comments:

This was an honest, sometimes heartbreaking look, at what it's like to be inside the mind of a teenage outcast as she hates herself and struggles to understand other people. Danielle is over-weight and socially inept. She has OCD and doesn't know how to accept her damaged self. She loves to read, and write, and journal every little bit of her life. The book is written in journal format. As Danielle experiences her last year of high school, we experience things with her primarily though emails, English essays, and letters. Danielle goes through a lot of normal high school experiences, like a class trip to England and a school car wash, but through her worry and obsessive nature she finds it difficult to cope among her classmates. As the book progresses we learn more and more about Danielle and eventually what happened that caused her OCD, which is a coping mechanism. I think the journal format might attract more reluctant readers. –Allison, Wilton Public Library

I am really struggling with the format. Yvette, Merrimack