becauseofanya

Because of Anya, by Margaret Peterson Haddix ISBN: 0-689-83298-2 c2002 114 pages

Good sections to read aloud: pp. 3-5 where a note is passed about Anya’s hair (wig)

Summary: Anya is ten years old and in fourth grade when her and her mother discover one morning that her hair is falling out. They make a doctor’s appointment and find out that she has a condition known as alopecia areata. This condition causes hair to fall out. Sometimes it grows back, and then falls out again, and sometimes it doesn’t grow back at all. Anya, along with her parents, is just devastated because she has to wear a wig. None of her classmates know about this until after Christmas break when a girl in the class thinks Anya is wearing a wig.

YA Fiction--teen issues; baldness; schools; alopecia areata

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