Summary Of The Book 'Every Last Word'

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In the book, Every Last Word, by Tamara Ireland Stone, we follow the life of 16-year-old Samantha McAllister. Samantha, or Sam for short, is a teen that deals with very severe cases of both anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Sam keeps her OCD a secret not wanting many people to know. As she goes through her junior year she realizes that it's becoming harder to hide it from everyone at school especially her friends, the crazy 8’s (the 8’s). In the summer going into her junior year, Sam feels freer than ever before. She feels like a new person (Summer Sam). So she decides that starting from her junior year she will start behaving more like Summer Sam at school and the 8’s. Samantha figures out that it isn’t quite easy being summer