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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
PuritanPhysicist
Since: Apr, 2012
NoriMori
Since: Jan, 2011

This was a novel I read in elementary school some time in the early- to mid-1990s. It was about a student who had learning challenges, especially in math, and an active imagination when he came home from school.
He had to see the guidance counselor, who helped him, but she got in trouble when she pointed him towards a Buddhist book (something along the lines of "Zen and the Art of Home Construction").