obsessive-compulsive disorder

Emotionally crippled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder, teenager Matthew Corbin rarely leaves his room on a cul-de-sac in London, and he passes the day observing and writing down his neighbors doings from his window--but when a toddler staying next door disappears Matt is the key to solving a mystery and possibly saving a child's life . . . if he can manage to expose himself, and his secret guilt to the outside world.

Josh Baker is a math genius, a talented drummer, and knows everything about rock music, but he also has to check his locker again and again, count cracks in ceilings, and always finish songs to prevent something bad from happening. When he's diagnosed with OCD, it's both a blessing and a curse as Josh has to learn how to overcome his thoughts before they ruin everything he loves.

Hospitalized for her OCD, Addie Foster and her new schizophrenic friend, seventeen-year-old Fitzgerald Whitman IV, escape the psychiatric ward and undertake a journey to find the elusive--and endangered--bird, the Kirtland's warbler.

"... helps readers understand how people with OCD use rituals to cope with distressing intrusive thoughts. A list of organizations to contact gives people who are struggling with this disorder resources to connect with others who understand what they are going through."--Provided by publisher.

Explores OCD, including the cause, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments.

"Amidst the Chinese-Malay conflict in Kuala Lumpur in 1969, sixteen-year-old Melati must overcome prejudice, violence, and her own OCD to find her way back to her mother"--Provided by publisher.

A lightning strike made Lucy, twelve, a math genius but, after years of homeschooling, her grandmother enrolls her in middle school and she learns that life is more than numbers.

A thirteen-year-old boy's life revolves around hiding his obsessive compulsive disorder until a girl at school, who is unkindly nicknamed Psycho Sara, notices him for the first time and he gets a mysterious note that changes everything.

Seventh-grader Annabelle's mother is a hoarder, and their whole house is full of canned goods, broken toys, fabric, and old newspapers--but when a pile of newspapers (organized by weather reports) falls on Annabelle's younger sister Leslie and their mother is more concerned about the newspapers, it sets off a chain of events that brings their fix-it-all grandmother in and Annabelle realizes that if there is any hope for change she can not isolate herself and keep her family's problems secret.

"Adam not only is trying to understand his OCD, while trying to balance his relationship with his divorced parents, but he's also trying to navigate through the issues that teenagers normally face, namely the perils of young love"--NLC catalog.