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Buzzing (A Graphic Novel)
Buzzing (A Graphic Novel) | Samuel Sattin, Rye Hickman
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A moving middle grade graphic novel about friendship, belonging, and learning to love yourself despite the voices in your head. Isaac Itkin cant 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 doesnt 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 Isaacs therapist says that exposure to games can have negative effects on kids with OCD, and when his grades slip, his helicopter mother wont 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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ravenlee
ravenlee
Buzzing (A Graphic Novel) | Samuel Sattin, Rye Hickman
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This is a really good upper-MGGN, focusing on Isaac as he lives with OCD “bees” constantly buzzing in his ears. Finding friends and starting to play a TTRPG with them expand his world, until his very controlling mother shuts it all down. Being a neurotypical older sibling to a neurodivergent younger is an important theme, there are gender norms discussed, budding romance as part of finding yourself…so much really good, healthy stuff!

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GirlNamedJesse
GirlNamedJesse
Buzzing (A Graphic Novel) | Samuel Sattin, Rye Hickman
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I was not expecting the TTRPGs in this story of a kiddo with OCD. I wish the nerdiness was more apparent from the start; I think I would‘ve been drawn in faster. I liked the hinted romance, sibling growth, and embracing the weird!

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Pogue
Pogue
Buzzing (A Graphic Novel) | Samuel Sattin, Rye Hickman
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Pickpick

Adorable middle-grade about acceptance.

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Lauredhel
Lauredhel
Buzzing (A Graphic Novel) | Samuel Sattin, Rye Hickman
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So yes, I'm obviously finding it hard to not hate this mother.

thegirlwiththelibrarybag Yeah, that‘s a red flag opinion for sure 2y
willaful Kind of a “Miracle on 34th Street“ mom vibe. 2y
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Lauredhel
Lauredhel
Buzzing (A Graphic Novel) | Samuel Sattin, Rye Hickman
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Surprise prompt fill - Camp! #WickedWords @AsYouWish 


This is a well-done graphic novel about a kid with OCD. The intrusive obsessions are depicted as a cloud of bees around him. Includes themes of the power of books and of shared creative experience (via tabletop RPG in this book), and there is nonbinary rep.

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