Teacher's pet

By Stefan Petrucha

Subjects: Counting, Monitor lizards, Pets, fiction, Horror stories, Fiction, Pet sitting, Children's fiction, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Juvenile fiction, Obsessive-compulsive disorder in adolescence

Description: Sixteen-year-old Chelsea's obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) causes her to believe she must continually count objects to prevent awful things from happening, but when she agrees to pet-sit her biology teacher's six-foot monitor lizard, counting may not be enough.