If you could read my mind you wouldn't be smiling. Samantha McAllister looks just like the
rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and
expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has
Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't
turn off. Second-guessing every move thought and word makes daily life a struggle and it
doesn't help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first sign of a wrong outfit
wrong lunch or wrong crush. Yet Sam knows she'd be truly crazy to leave the protection of the
most popular girls in school. So when Sam meets Caroline she has to keep her new friend with a
refreshing sense of humor and no style a secret right up there with Sam's weekly visits to her
psychiatrist. Caroline introduces Sam to Poet's Corner a hidden room and a tight-knit group of
misfits who have been ignored by the school at large. Sam is drawn to them immediately
especially a guitar-playing guy with a talent for verse and starts to discover a whole new
side of herself. Slowly she begins to feel more normal than she ever has as part of the
popular crowd . . . until she finds a new reason to question her sanity and all she holds dear.
