Calvin

By Martine Leavitt

Subjects: Characters in literature, Schizophrenia in adolescence, Mentally ill teenagers, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Adolescence, Schizophrenia, High schools, Characters and characteristics in literature, Hobbes (Fictitious character), Mental illness, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Depression & Mental Illness, Fiction, Calvin (Fictitious character : Watterson), Juvenile fiction, Schools

Description: Born on the day the last Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published, seventeen-year-old Calvin, a schizophrenic, sees and has conversations with the tiger, Hobbes, and believes that if he can persuade the strip's creator, Bill Watterson, to do one more strip, he will make Calvin well.