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Overview

Everyone has a secret. But Lucy's is bigger and dirtier than most. It's one she's been hiding for years-that her mom's out-of-control hoarding has turned their lives into a world of garbage and shame. Tackling an increasingly discussed topic that is both fascinating and disturbing, C. J. Omololu weaves an hour-by-hour account of Lucy's desperate attempt to save her family. Readers join Lucy on a path from which there is no return, and the impact of hoarding on one teen's life will have them completely hooked.

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Debut author Omololu gives a disturbing appraisal of how a mother’s obsessive hoarding affects her teenage daughter in this frank novel that spans a tense 24-hour period. The grief 16-year-old Lucy experiences when her mother dies suddenly at home is overshadowed by her dread that paramedics and the general public will learn her family’s secret: they’ve been living amid piles of filth due to her mother’s refusal to ever throw anything away. (“The last repairman didn’t get past the front hallway before realizing the place was too full of crap to even get near the hot water heater,” Lucy remembers.) Lucy’s decision to clean up the mess before notifying authorities may seem ill-founded and unbelievable to some, but readers will feel compassion for her as she recalls how her mother’s compulsive behavior has cost her friendships and a normal social life, as well as posing health risks. Tension intensifies as the clean-up process proves even more overwhelming than Lucy imagined. Her determination to erase the past may lead to debates about whether Lucy’s motives are rooted in selfishness, shame, or love. Ages 12–up. (Feb.)
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Gr 8 Up—Lucy keeps a horrendous secret. At her old school, it accidentally slipped that her mother's obsessive hoarding forced Lucy, her brother, and her sister to live in the midst of endless stacks of junk and filth, earning Lucy the nickname "garbage girl." Now, starting her junior year in a new school, she has a great best friend, a potential boyfriend of her dreams, and no one gets to see the interior of her house. Since her older siblings have moved out and her father is remarried, she lives alone with her unstable mother—until the night Lucy comes home and finds that the woman has died in the rubble. She panics about reporting the death, because then everyone will discover the truth about their living conditions. Lucy's attempts to clear the massive amounts of trash from the house, to no avail, lead to an ultimate "solution" that is shocking, tragic, desperate, and believable. Characters, situations, and settings are vivid, and dialogue rings true. As the teen tries to dispose of the debris before calling the police, effective and well-placed flashbacks triggered by unearthed items link her remembrances about what brought the house to its present condition and reflect her feelings about tense and frustrating parental and sibling relationships. As a valuable new addition to heartbreaking but honest books about teens immersed in emotionally distressed families, like Nancy Werlin's The Rules of Survival (Dial, 2006), this potent and creatively woven page-turner brings a traumatic situation front and center.—Diane P. Tuccillo, Poudre River Public Library District, Fort Collins, CO
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An emotionally charged novel dealing with the issue of compulsive hoarding tells the story of a girl forced to make an agonizing decision in this nicely realized page-turner. Sixteen-year-old Lucy has been painfully isolated from her peers for years, refusing to let anyone near her house lest they discover the towers of garbage and heaps of mold-encrusted dishes. Outwardly highly functional, her mother maintains the dysfunction in their home with an obsessive grip. When Lucy returns from a friend's house one morning and discovers her mother dead of an asthma attack, she is poised to call 911 but quickly realizes this will expose the secret that her mother (and Lucy herself) worked so hard to protect. A growing public awareness of this disorder will produce many curious readers, and they will not be disappointed-Lucy is sympathetic and real, her brother and sister equally believable. Her mother is a multidimensional, complicated character. Quick chapters throttle toward an unexpected and morally ambiguous ending that some may feel leaves too many questions unanswered. Nonetheless, readers will be rapt. (Fiction. 12 & up)
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Things are finally getting on track for Lucy Tompkins. She has a new best friend named Kaylie, and a guy with "Johnny Depp-ness" good looks seems interested in her. In two years, she can join her siblings and enter adulthood, never looking back. No one knows about her depressed and controlling mother or her home filled with stacks of newspapers, magazines, books, and trash. She has even managed to keep not having hot water or heat a private matter. On Tuesday morning, it seems like the family's largest secret will be revealed when Lucy comes home and finds Mom lying dead amidst the "treasures" she refuses to throw away. Lucy spends the entire book trying to decide the best way to protect her family from embarrassment. This appealing first novel is divided by hours, 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning until 5:25 a.m. on Wednesday, which emphasizes the immediacy of Lucy's problem. The flashbacks might seem contrived, and Lucy's sporadic errors in judgment and lack of confidence might prove irritating to some readers, but others will be too busy wondering whether Lucy will manage to protect her family's privacy to notice. This reviewer's twelve-year-old son also read the book and concluded that although the plot is suspenseful, the author offers a too-simplistic solution to Lucy's problem. Because the book's flaws are minor, fans of young adult literature are likely to still embrace it. Reviewer: KaaVonia Hinton-Johnson
Children's Literature
There are lots of books about keeping family secrets, like alcoholic or depressed parents or sexual abuse, but this is a fairly unique entry in that it deals with compulsive hoarding and its affect on a child's life. Lucy's mother was once an accomplished pianist and seamstress. She is still functioning as an oncology nurse, but she has gradually fallen apart since her divorce—a fairly common theme in teen literature. The mother's disintegration has taken the form of never throwing anything away, so that the house is now filled with stacks of newspapers and magazines, rotting food, and unopened shopping bags. There is barely a path to the front door, and mildew and stench pervade the air. Since no one can be allowed into the house, including repair people, essential appliances that break are not fixed. They are living without a hot water heater. Lucy's life is totally controlled by the need to keep the state of affairs a secret, even from her best friend Kaylie or her new crush Josh. Her older sister is out of the house, and she won't even acknowledge there's a problem. Meanwhile, her older brother keeps telling her to just tough it out for another year or two until she goes away to college. Then one day, Lucy comes home to find that several stacks of magazines have toppled onto and trapped her mother, precipitating a fatal asthma attack. If Lucy calls 911, the whole situation will be revealed, and she fears losing what little she has. Instead, she decides to just open the windows to the cold December air and try to clean up the place before anyone finds out. The size of the task defeats her intentions as we follow her almost hour by hour trying to shovel out a houseful of garbage. Faced with exposure, she moves the tiny space heater from her bedroom into the living room. A fire starts, and she escapes out one of the windows. The last we see of Lucy, she is wrapped in a blanket, standing by the ambulance with sympathetic neighbors offering to help her. This is a realistic portrayal of hoarding behavior and a sympathetic rendition of the impact on children's lives. However probable the ending of the story may be, it is not a solution; rather, it is the desperate act of a fevered adolescent brain. One should only recommend this book if discussion is going to follow, for the novel itself fails to address the consequences and aftermath of Lucy's actions. Reviewer: Paula McMillen, Ph.D.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780802722331
  • Publisher: Walker & Company
  • Publication date: 3/15/2011
  • Pages: 224
  • Sales rank: 103,126
  • Age range: 12 - 17 Years
  • Lexile: 0890L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 5.74 (w) x 8.17 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author

C. J. Omololu (Oh-moh-LOH-loo) didn't grow up in a hoarded home, but has seen what the disorder can do to a family. Her research with the organization Children of Hoarders informed Dirty Little Secrets, which is her first novel. She lives in Northern California with her husband and two sons.

www.cynjay.blogspot.com

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  • Posted April 1, 2011

    AWESOME

    really good! it could be disterbing but really good and has a great ending!

    3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted February 17, 2011

    Run While You Can

    I'm not even joking. Run.

    3 out of 13 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted January 11, 2011

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    One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Treasure?

    Lucy Anne Tompkins has been hiding from the world for years - coming up with excuses and making up stories to keep people from stepping foot inside of her home- so no one would find out about her dirty little secret. Lucy's sister, Sara, and brother, Phil, have escaped the house on Collier Avenue and now she's the only one left; the only one to care for her mother, Joanna, who doesn't see anything abnormal about living in a house filled with tons of garbage, old magazines and newspapers stacked high and taken over by filth and mold. Lucy is the child of a hoarder. I felt bad for Lucy: She was so afraid she was going to lose the only two friends she had, she was verbally attacked by her mother, her dad didn't care what was going on with her, she was paranoid at times and she took responsibility for things that weren't her fault. This book has twenty chapters. By the end of Chapter 19 I guessed what was going to happen next but it wasn't the ending I expected. Lucy went to the extreme to keep the family "hoarding" secret from becoming known but I really don't believe she saw it that way and that, among a few other things, made me wonder about her mental health. Omololu did a very good job with this story. The way it moves from present to past flows very well and the descriptions of Lucy's home are so vivid I felt like I was there (I often scrunched my face in disgust). This was an interesting read. Hoarding is something I will never fully understand but Dirty Little Secrets offers insight into this unusual behavior.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted April 11, 2010

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    Well-written

    Omololu's debut novel, which tells the suffering of a young girl whose mother is a hoarder, infiltrates deep into the unknowns of a largely overlooked mental condition. This novel profoundly illustrates the pain and embarrassment sixteen-year-old Lucy endures to fake a normal life, and the lengths she will go to to protect and hide her family's secret. Although the story does grow dull at times, it packs a very poignant punch, and will likely stay with the reader long after the last page is read.

    2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 3, 2012

    Yeah

    This book was very interesting to me, because i wouldnt think that this book would have ended like this. I am not going to tell you the story o this book, because you should read it and find out. What i will tell you is that it is a secret keeoung story sn that it is mysterious. You never know what will happen next.




    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 25, 2012

    Good but it leaves yoy U Good but it leaves you hanging

    An amazing book the end never finishes and leaves you hanging off the edge of a cliff. I wish the author would make a sequel from Josh(Lucy's crush

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 30, 2011

    A must read!!!

    Unexpected ending cfor a great plot....definitly a must read

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 29, 2011

    Best book ......kinda

    My only problems with this book is that in the middle it was like hurry up and get to the romance already it needs more romance less complainng about cleaning a bleepin house

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 28, 2011

    Anonymous

    This is the best book ever suspenceful yet heartbreaking i just couldnt put the nook down i read it over and over

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted May 14, 2012

    worth the money

    Brings you into the life of a daughter of a hoarder. Let me tell you its not pretty.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 30, 2012

    :)

    Lucy has a secret that she has been hiding from the outside world for a long time. Her mom was a hoarder. Her parents were divorsed, her house was a mess (like seriously messy), and so much more. She couldn't invite any of her "friends" over because her house was worse than a dump, she just could not wait until she can move out. Her older brother Phil was already out of the house and had a girlfriend, so Lucy can't depend on him to help her with everything. She even tried cleaning the whole house once, but her mom got extremely mad instead of thankful. One day, her mom faints and dies, but Lucy didn't call the hospital because she was afraid the news camera crew will tape the event, and she would be embarassed to death. So she is still determined to clean the house. But she decided it is not worth it, and goes to a party her crush is at. SPOILER ALERT: Her crush actually likes her more than she likes him. At the end she ends up burning up the house, and the trash burned with it.

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  • Posted April 3, 2012

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    A glimpse into a secret world

    Everyone has a secret. But Lucy’s has one she’s been hiding for years—that her mom’s out-of-control hoarding has turned their lives into a world of garbage and shame. She’s managed to keep her home life hidden from her best friend and her crush, knowing they’d be disgusted by the truth. So, when her mom dies suddenly in their home, Lucy hesitates to call 911 because revealing their way of life would make her future unbearable—and she begins her two-day plan to set her life right.

    I finished this book in one night. Though I was fascinated with the overall plot of 'hoarders' in the story, I felt it ended too quickly. There was so much more that I felt needed to be told, but at least you get to enjoy a short interesting story of Lucy's finial decisions of her families "truths". It's a quick read, but you do get some unknown insight into a world many never see.

    Likes: All the childhood objects Lucy discovered that triggered memories while cleaning.

    Dislikes: Lucy was quite unemotional throughout the story, so I'm assuming it was shock.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 15, 2012

    dirty little secrets

    i watch the hoarding shows so i was immedietly drawn to this book. it was sad like the shows are,but it was also different. Lucy a young teenage girl,to the outside world shes a loving girl who babysits and hangs with friends. but she has a secret and its ger mothers hoard. shes been living in a dump for years. No one knows, and other family members wont help,so when tragety strikes Lucy is on her own to keep the secret safe. i liked this book and suggest it to those who like the shows, even if you don't,read it, and you may like it.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 4, 2012

    Amazing!

    This book is amazing can not put it down!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 3, 2012

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    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 10, 2012

    interesting

    After reading this book, I'd like to learn more about the disease "hoarding".

    0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 27, 2011

    Nook reader

    The book was wonderful it had romance and a big secret that blows everything away with 1 big death

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 15, 2011

    Great book!

    An amazing book!

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted December 1, 2011

    Suspenseful and Heartbreaking

    ¿Dirty Little Secrets¿ by C.J. Omololu is a sad and suspenseful novel about a girl who has a huge secret. She is like every other teen. She is shy and tends to keep to herself. She is completely normal and blends in- until your walk through the front door of her house. Lucy¿s mom is a hoarder, collecting everything from papers to appliances. Lucy has used every excuse in the book to avoid the humiliation that would come with having her horrible life go public. She is worried that people will ¿treat her different.¿ She somehow manages to keep her secret; until she comes home one day to find her mother dead of an asthma attack lying under a pile of National Geographics. Now Lucy is forced to make the hardest decision of her life. Will she get help and risk having her secret revealed, or try and fix things herself? Lucy confides in her best friend for everything- except this. The book demonstrates how she must balance her social life tediously to avoid her house. ¿Dirty Little Secrets¿ shows that everyone has a secret; some are just bigger than others. This book is a must read for every middle school student. It demonstrates how a normal-looking person can have something huge that they are keeping from the world. As I read this book, I could feel for Lucy as she is forced into a nightmarish and horrible situation. I give this book an overall four stars. It is fantastic, but sometimes the plot drags a little. The events in the story go from horrible to horrific, and then surprise you at the end. This is one of my top ten favorite books. It lets you experience a real life situation through the eyes of someone who¿s seen it all.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 28, 2011

    MAXIMUM AWESOME

    This was such an amazing story i finished it in like a week it keeps you intrigued the endng was sooo shocking though but seriously read it!!!!!!

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