The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B

Authors: Toten, Teresa
Publisher: PRH Canada Young Readers
BISAC/Subject: YAF052020, YAF018030, YAF058060
ISBN: 9780385678353, Related ISBNs: 0385678347, 0385678355, 0553507869, 0553507877, 0553507893
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 256,
Audience: Young adult
Synopsis:

Two-time Governor General's Award nominee Teresa Toten is back with a compulsively readable new book for teens!

When Adam meets Robyn at a support group for kids coping with obsessive-compulsive disorder, he is drawn to her almost before he can take a breath. He's determined to protect and defend her--to play Batman to her Robyn--whatever the cost. But when you're fourteen and the everyday problems of dealing with divorced parents and step-siblings are supplemented by the challenges of OCD, it's hard to imagine yourself falling in love. How can you have a "normal" relationship when your life is so fraught with problems? And that's not even to mention the small matter of those threatening letters Adam's mother has started to receive . . .

Teresa Toten sets some tough and topical issues against the backdrop of a traditional whodunit in this engaging new novel that readers will find hard to put down.

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