Everything you need to understand or teach Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson.
A coming-of-age novel concerned with the heightened feelings of adolescence and a work of art growing out of control of its creator, Kevin Wilson's Now Is Not the Time to Panic traces the evolution and growth of its main characters centering around a work of art they made when they were teenagers that became a global phenomenon, both for good and bad. Set within the rural backwoods of Coalfield, Tennessee, Wilson tackles such topics as growing up with mental illness, the power of a work of art to subsume its creator, and the power of memory to impact someone's life.