A guidebook designed especially for kids, which uses cartoons, checklists, and activity pages to teach them, their parents, and others around them, how to deal with the challenges of attention deficit disorder.
Cory, a young boy, explains what it feels like to have attention deficit disorder, discussing some of the challenges he faces, and tells how he was helped with medication and talk therapy.
Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.
A young boy named Jimmy and his mother learn from a doctor that Jimmy has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and are shown how to help him concentrate and sit still in class.
To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription medications wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired.
