More terrific new middle school fiction
These last few days have felt pretty realistic to me, so more realistic fiction may or may not have been what I was looking for. Except that's what was in the TBR pile from Netgalley, so ok. The good news is that they were really different from the kind of realism I've been living, so it was nice to get into someone else's head for change. The first one is called "The Brave" by James Bird. The cover of the e-book I got had it spelled like this "Th3 Brav5", which should be an indicator that this character doesn't think like most people. The main character is Collin, who has grown up with his dad. He doesn't know his mother at all, expect that she's a Native American. It says in the description of the book that Collin struggles with OCD. His OCD manifests itself in counting, which doesn't seem that unusual to me. Except that Collin counts letters. He counts the letters as people speak to him and when he responds to them, the first ...