Kissing Doornobs

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Summary: good
Review: very good it tells a story about a girl dealing with ocd i cried many times when I read it and hardly put it down

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Summary: Wow
Review: Wow, what a great book. I have read it many times, and I cry every time I read it. For anyone who has personally been touched by OCD, this is a must-read for you. It helps you to understand what a person with OCD goes through on a day-to-day basis. A must read.

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Summary: Frighteningly Real
Review: Kissing Doorknoabs is a hauntingly realistic book about an adolescent girl named Tara struggling with OCD and the effect it has on her family. Her odd rituals disturb and frighten her. This book uses biting humor to amuse and inform people aobut the painful disorder that is OCD. I particularly enjoyed this book because of my interest in psychology. It has an appendix of numbers and addresses of organizations that help people that suffer from OCD. I recomend this book to anyone who has struggled with OCD, know someone with the disease, or just enjoys good books and psychology.

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Summary: Frighteningly Real
Review: This hauntingly realistic book takes you into the mind of adolescent Tara, a girl struggling against powerful "tyrants" in her head. You watch her as she struggles with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and the devastating effect it has on her family. This is a wonderful book that provides not only entertainment, but helpful information about a disease as well. It includes an appendix with numbers and addresses of organizations that help people with OCD I recomend this book for someone who has has struggled with OCD, knows someone with it, or just has an interest in psychology and good books.

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Summary: An excellent book to read.
Review: The novel Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Spencer Hesser is a story that shows a young teenager by the name of Tara going through traumatic events in her life. Tara suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, which causes her to act strangely. An example is when she is walking down the streets. She does not walk on the cracks because if she does she will break her mother's back. If she steps on a crack, she would walk back to her house and start walking down the streets again without stepping on a crack. Over time Tara begins more obsessive behaviors by arranging her food carefully on the plate, talking with troll dolls, and reciting prayers over and over. The book is realistic and can teach readers a lesson in relationships with friends and family, and about obsessive-compulsive disorder. This book will leaves an indelible mark on whomever reads it. I recommend this book to mature teens that can handle explicit violence, gore, and sex.

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Summary: Great Book!
Review: A friend of mine reccomended this book to me and I didn't think I'd like it very much. But it really goes inside and shows how OCD isn't something that you control, it controls you. It's not easy to recover from and a lot of people don't understand that. This was a GREAT book and I loved it!

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Summary: Future Teacher's thoughts
Review: As a future teacher, I read young adult literature that I think I may like to teach to my future students. I select books that I think will enlighten them, and find this book to be one that would really open the eyes of students. I think that kids who have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) will nolonger feel alone, and kids who don't have it, will begin to understand those who do if they read this book. It's a great book and aptly shows how difficult it is for a child to deal with things that his or her friends may not be able to relate to. Read this book!---it's great!

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Summary: I cannot say enough good things about this book!
Review: This book is a wonderful introduction into the world of obsessive-compulsive disorder. For those unfamiliar with the illness, it does an excellent job of showing, not just describing, what it is like to live with this disease. The accuracy and compassion of this novel are amazing. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has a friend or loved one with OCD; it can help you understand what the person is going through in a very real way.

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Summary: 6th Grade English
Review: Hey. This book, Kissing Doorknobs, is a book that my 6th grade English teacher told us to buy. so, my mom, being the mom that she is, went online and bought me a copie of Kissing Doorknobs, and I read it, took the tests, and unlike most reading tests I took, I actually WANTED to read this book! (Wierd, huh?) well now It is the end of the 3rd 6 weeks, and I'm doing great in class ( A+, B+, A++, you know, a good kids' scores.) and I need to go. Bye!

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Summary: More form Jedi Girl
Review: Tara Sullivan is your normal popular elementary student until one fateful day in the fifth grade. She hears the age old rhyme "Step on a Crack, break your mother's back," and her whole life changes. Now every where she goes she has to count the cracks in the sidewalk and the road. She avoids her friends and her condition tears her family apart. But she doesn't stop at crack counting, no she moves on to praying when someone curses, arranging her food in a certain way, people sitting in the same place every time, and finally kissing her front doorknob 33 times before she can go out. Will this madness ever stop?!!? Read Kissing Doorknobs and find out. This book is very hard to get into, it take you a long time to figure out that she has gone back and is recounting what happened when she first heard the rhyme. After a while the book gets better and you start to feel her pain when all of her new quirks surface. I felt that it was well written and well researched about her disorder. When that came out I felt like kicking my self for not knowing. I was there for Tara's triumphs and there for her losses and I felt like I was really there. Read this book I guarantee that you will enjoy it.

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