Almost fifteen year old Adam falls in love the moment Robyn breezes into the room. Agent: Marie Campbell, Transatlantic Agency. The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B is a beautiful, poignant and an incredibly playful read thats written with a loving hand, dealing with a very serious and very real issue of obsessive compulsive disorder. Winner of the 2013 Governor General's Award for children's text. Adam's path to accepting ownership over his health is filled with pain and false starts that are highly personal as a result, Adam is a fresh and complex character, and far more than the sum of his symptoms.

While the book offers an unflinching look at mental illness, Toten's (The Onlyhouse) characters are also able to see humor in their darkest moments. There is a lot going on in Adams life and he is aware that his coping mechanisms are spiralling out of control. He wants to be her hero but he needs to save himself, his family and the world first. Adam's internal monologues, which include interwoven lists of his beliefs and worries, are intense and realistic ('I believe that I am unclean and will harm those I care about the most and that there is too much noise in my head and that I am so goddamned tired%E2%80%9D). The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B Author: Teresa Toten Publisher: Walker Books Adam falls in love with Robyn Plummer as soon as he sees her. This book was an amazing read about the twists and turns of teenage life and the difficulty of living with OCD. When 14-year-old Adam Spencer Ross falls for a girl named Robyn Plummer, who attends his OCD support group, it provides him with an instant inspiration to try to become 'normal.%E2%80%9D Despite medicine and therapy, Adam struggles with compulsive rituals and anxieties, particularly concerning his mother, who is acting increasingly strange herself. Teresa Toten, The Unlikely Hero of Room 13b.

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