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Kissing Doorknobs
It started with a sidewalk rhyme. It ended with her finally getting help. 🚪
Who it's for
Told in Tara's vivid first-person voice, the book shows how intrusive thoughts start small and how rituals that seem to calm anxiety end up running a person's life.
Confused→Understood
Feelings it meets
What it is
At eleven, Tara Sullivan hears the rhyme about stepping on cracks and can't shake it. Counting cracks, praying and kissing doorknobs become rituals that take over her days and strain her friendships and family, until she finally gets help.
Where to find it
Paperback and ebook from major booksellers; widely held in libraries (Laurel-Leaf paperback edition).
Before you start
Heads up: Intrusive thoughts and escalating compulsions.
Age: Publisher age range 12+
Out, damned spot! out, I say!William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 1
