Zelah Green: Who Says Im a Freak? by Vanessa Curtis

25 in stock

203mm x 127mm x 15mm

Pages: 250

A prizewinning story of a girl whose serious OCD starts to take over her life, how she conquers it with help and humor, and the friends with their own troubles whom she meets along the way My Name is Zelah Green and Im a cleanaholic. I spend most of my life running away from germs. And dirt. And people. And Im just about doing okay and then my stepmother packs me off to some kind of hospital to live with a bunch of strangers. Its stuck in the middle of nowhere. Great. Theres Alice whos anorexic. Caro who cuts herself. Silent Sol who has the cutest smile. And then theres me. Zelahs candid voice allows serious issues to be explored with empathy. With wonderful humor supplementing the emotional heart, this story presents real problems for teenagers while never being being heavy-handed.