Buzzing / written by Samuel Sattin ; illustrated by Rye Hickman.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : Little, Brown Ink, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First editionDescription: 205 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780316628419 (paperback); 9780316628433 (hardback)Subject(s): Obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Comic books, strips, etc | Fantasy games -- Comic books, strips, etc | Friendship -- Comic books, strips, etcGenre/Form: Comics (Graphic works). | Graphic novels. DDC classification: 741.5/973 Summary: A moving middle grade graphic novel about friendship, belonging, and learning to love yourself despite the voices in your head. Isaac Itkin can't get away from his thoughts. As a lonely twelve-year-old kid with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), everything from studying to looking in the mirror becomes a battle between him and a swarm of unhelpful thoughts. The strict therapy his mother insists on doesn't seem to be working, but when a group of friends invites him to join their after-school role-playing game, the thoughts feel a little less loud, and the world feels a little brighter. But Isaac's therapist says that exposure to games can have negative effects on kids with OCD, and when his grades slip, his helicopter mother won't let him play anymore. Now Isaac needs to find a way to prove to himself, to his mother, and to the world that the way to quiet the noise in his head may have been inside him all along.
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"Rise above the noise." -- Cover.
8+ years.
A moving middle grade graphic novel about friendship, belonging, and learning to love yourself despite the voices in your head. Isaac Itkin can't get away from his thoughts. As a lonely twelve-year-old kid with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), everything from studying to looking in the mirror becomes a battle between him and a swarm of unhelpful thoughts. The strict therapy his mother insists on doesn't seem to be working, but when a group of friends invites him to join their after-school role-playing game, the thoughts feel a little less loud, and the world feels a little brighter. But Isaac's therapist says that exposure to games can have negative effects on kids with OCD, and when his grades slip, his helicopter mother won't let him play anymore. Now Isaac needs to find a way to prove to himself, to his mother, and to the world that the way to quiet the noise in his head may have been inside him all along.
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