His orange notebook is filled with tips, such as these for surviving being buried in an avalanche: "Note where gravity carries your saliva. Review by Horn Book ReviewĮver since Collin's mother died in a car accident, he has worked hard on instructions for what to do in a variety of disastrous situations. From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Adult characters in fiction who fall prey to compulsive hoarding disorder often tend to be mothers, so this lyrical story offers an unusual perspective on living with a troubled parent. Readers will likely be appalled by his vivid, wrenching descriptions, but there are moments of poignancy ("she was / supposed to be / with us / forever") and even humor to lighten the load, as well as a reassuringly large circle of supportive peers and grown-ups. Caprara chronicles Collin's internal struggles, as well as his efforts to hide what's happening from his friends and others, entirely in short-lined free verse interspersed with bulleted entries from his notebook.
He has no strategy for coping with the relentless bullying from classmate Tyson, though, or the way his distracted father has become such a manic hoarder that the house has turned into a filthy mess.
In the two years since his mom's sudden death, Arizona middle-schooler Collin has tried to deal with his grief by compiling a notebook of calamities-from #212, Indigestion, to #741, Typhoon-and ways to face them.
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