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After Zero
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This award winning book offers kids an authentic depiction of selective mutism and a story of the experience of middle school interactions and mental illness.
Elise carries a notebook full of tallies, each page marking a day spent at her new public school, each stroke of her pencil marking a word spoken. A word that can't be taken back. Five tally marks isn't so bad. Two is pretty good. But zero? Zero is perfect. Zero means no wrong answers called out in class, no secrets accidentally spille...
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After Zero Author Christina Collins Shares 5 Middle Grade Novels Starring Kids with Mental Health Conditions
One possible reason is a belief that readers of middle grade age are not yet old enough to experience mental health problems of their own. This belief is of course a misconception, as I know first-hand. Selective mutism, an anxiety condition that the twelve-year-old narrator in my novel After Zero struggles with and that I […]
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