Steve and his younger sister, Nicole, have a new baby brother. His anxieties have always been a significant part of his life, but the summer in which the book is set, those worries come to a head. He worries about germs, washes his hands excessively, has to sleep cocooned in blankets and obsessively reads lists of all that he is grateful for in the evening to help him fall asleep. Oppel blends the line between fantasy and reality with long dream sequences about an angelic wasp queen visitor, the health of Steve's younger brother, and his family unit as a whole. Things change, however, when an ethereal spirit visits Steve, offering a solution that Steve can't refuse. Steve struggles to cope when his new baby sibling experiences congenital health problems that lead his parents to worry about whether or not he will survive. Kenneth Oppel’s The Nest is a fantasy novel for readers aged nine to twelve about a boy named Steve who struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety.
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