What If They Knew

by Patricia Hermes

Book Overview

A 10-year-old girl staying with her grandparents for the summer is appalled to discover that her parents' prolonged stay abroad means that she must start in a new school and somehow hide the fact that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440495156
• ISBN13: 9780440495154
• Release Date: September 1981
• Publisher: Yearling Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Excellent book for children with or without eplilepsy.

I was introduced to this book when I was eleven years old and my sixth-grade teacher read it to the class. It told of a young girl who was trying to hide her epilepsy (something I had never heard of before) from all of her friends, and how when they did find out, they didn't mind it because they still recognized her for who she was, not the condition that was only a small part of her life.Two and a half years later, I was attending school with mainly the same classmates when I had two major tonic-clonic seizures in the school library during lunch hour, and was diagnosed with epilepsy. It was strange to realize I had had this all of my life, just unrecognized. In my case, of course, everyone "knew," but because of some positive input from teachers and friends, the others realized that I was still the same person as before and that this was nothing to joke about. I was always grateful for Miss Manning having shared this book with me and my friends, and have read it again many times.

A great book!

This is a great book! it deals with a girl that that has epilepsy. She doesn't want anyone to find out.a girl named Carrie finds one of her pills and finds out about it. And she threatens to tell everyone.