# The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B

**Author:** Teresa Toten
**Grade range:** Grades 8–12
**First published:** 2013
**Page count:** 221
**ISBN-13:** `9780385678353`
**ISBN-10:** `0385678355`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-unlikely-hero-of-room-13b
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Two-time Governor General's Award nominee Teresa Toten is back with a compulsively readable new book for teens! When Adam meets Robyn at a support group for kids coping with obsessive-compulsive disorder, he is drawn to her almost before he can take a breath. He's determined to protect and defend her--to play Batman to her Robyn--whatever the cost. But when you're fourteen and the everyday problems of dealing with divorced parents and step-siblings are supplemented by the challenges of OCD, it's hard to imagine yourself falling in love. How can you have a "normal" relationship when your life is so fraught with problems? And that's not even to mention the small matter of those threatening letters Adam's mother has started to receive . . . Teresa Toten sets some tough and topical issues agai

## Where this book is assigned

### Schneider Family Book Award

- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2016 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2016 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2016 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2016 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2016 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)

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