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Becky the brave : a story about epilepsy

Author: Laurie Lears; Gail Piazza
Publisher: Morton Grove, Ill. : A. Whitman, ©2002.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : Primary school : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Nothing seems to scare Sarah's big sister Becky, until having an epileptic seizure makes her reluctant to return to school, and so Sarah summons her own courage to explain the disease to the other students.
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Genre/Form: Fiction
Juvenile works
Juvenile fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Primary school
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Laurie Lears; Gail Piazza
ISBN: 080750601X 9780807506011
OCLC Number: 47296213
Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Responsibility: written by Laurie Lears ; illustrated by Gail Piazza.

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Nothing seems to scare Sarah's big sister Becky, until having an epileptic seizure makes her reluctant to return to school, and so Sarah summons her own courage to explain the disease to the other students.

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Epilepsy is not a disease

by rws49ers1 (WorldCat user published 2012-12-26) Good Permalink

If it was a disease it would be catchy.... Epilepsy is not a disease... Believe what u want its not catchy!!!!! I have had it over 30 yrs here.... Epilepsy comes from the frontal lobe part of the brain.... I get all kinds of them i know how it goes having it.... PPL can still call it a disease but...
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