Its the vivid, insightful depiction of Saras internal struggles that readers will remember. Booklist In this prequel to the Edgar Awardwinning OCDaniel, fan-favorite Sara quests for normal and finds something even better along the way.Saras Rules to Be Normal 1. Stop taking your pills 19. Make a friend 137. Dont put mayonnaise on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Sara wants one thing: to be normal. What she has instead are multiple diagnoses from Dr. Ring. Saras constant battle with False Alarmwhat she calls panic attacksand other episodes cause her to isolate herself. She rarely speaks, especially not at school, and so she doesnt have any friends. But when she starts group therapy she meets someone new. Talkative and outgoing Erin doesnt believe in normal, and Sara finds herself in unfamiliar territory: at the movies, at a birthday party, and with someone to tell about her crushin short, with a friend. But theres more to Erin than her cheerful exterior, and Sara begins to wonder if helping Erin will mean sacrificing their friendship.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 3rd grade-7th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 272 pages in this book. This book was published in 2021 by Simon & Schuster .

Wesley King is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wizenard Series: Training Camp with Kobe Bryant. He also wrote OCDaniel, which won the prestigious Edgar Award for best middle grade mystery, was named a Bank Street Best Book of the Year, and received Canada's Silver Birch Award. Booklist called it "Complex and satisfying. sometimes painful, sometimes amusing, and always rewarding," in a starred review. He lives in Nova Scotia.