The Best Ocd Books for Kids

Summary: Jake, a nursing home volunteer, finds solace in helping others but struggles with an eating disorder that threatens to consume him. As he avoids peers and mirrors, he battles the voice inside urging him to disappear. Can Jake find the strength to silence his inner torment and embrace self-acceptance before it's too late? This poignant novel-in-verse explores the raw journey of survival and self-expression, offering a lifeline to those in need.

Summary: Twelve-year-old Isaac struggles with OCD, feeling trapped by his own thoughts. When new friends introduce him to a role-playing game, his world brightens. But with his grades slipping and his mother's disapproval, Isaac must find a way to silence the chaos within. Can he prove that the key to peace lies within himself?

Summary: Sophomore Mina Murray collects the dark legends of her small town of London, Georgia, drawing them in her sketchbook to cope with the monster in her own head: her OCD. To show she can be social, she starts the Lore Club and digs into the town's odd history, finding that someone vanishes each time a sinkhole opens. When a new sinkhole appears, a body drained of blood turns up and a classmate goes missing, and the mystery seems to center on Mina herself.

Summary: Devon Brown can't eat in the school cafeteria, goes through a bottle of hand sanitizer a week and keeps his shirts color-coded and buttoned to the top. To him, his rituals ward off disaster; to his parents and therapist, they are a problem. When his compulsions get him into serious trouble at his new high school, Devon has to face what is really driving them.

Summary: Eleven-year-old Chris Cleevy's out-of-this-world imagination runs on science fiction, while small routines like tying his shoelaces keep him grounded. Then his mom brings home her new boyfriend, Phil, and Chris becomes convinced Phil belongs to a mind-controlling alien race from one of his favorite stories. A middle-grade graphic novel about the emergence of OCD and a family in change.