About Saving Sammy: Curing the Boy Who Caught OCD Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Crown; 1 edition (September 22, 2009) The summer before entering sixth grade, Sammy, a bright and charming boy who lived on the coast of Maine, suddenly began to exhibit disturbing behavior. He walked and ate with his eyes shut, refused to bathe, […]
Heather Gudenkauf, author of The Weight of Silence, on tour August/September 2009
About Heather Gudenkauf Heather Gudenkauf was born in Wagner, South Dakota, the youngest of six children. At one month of age, her family returned to the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota where her father was employed as a guidance counselor and her mother as a school nurse. At the age of three, her family […]