Because of Anya

Because of Anya is a very good but sad book. The 10 year old girl named Anya has a disease called Alopecia Areata..this disease makes you lose all of your hair. In the book during gym class, one of the girls tugs on Anya's wig and it comes off. Anya is very embarrassed. The book really makes you wonder what the character is going through. I really like this book...I cried during the middle of the book.

Because of Anya is a story about a 10 year old girl who had a disease called alopecia areata. Because of this disease, Anya lost all her hair. Anya do not want her classmates to know that she has a disease and so she wore a wig. Stef, Anya's popular classmate, know that Anya was wearing a wig and she wants to humiliate Anya. Stef told her friends to take off Anya's wig by pulling it. But the embarrassing moment happened to Anya when she was in the gym. While she was playing cartwheel her wig accidentally came off. She was so scared and embarrassed by what happened and she never wants to come back to school because of the humiliation she experienced at the gym. Keely, one of Anya's classmates, pitied her and wants to help her. Keely saw the pain in Anya's eyes so she went and visit Anya and persuaded her to come back to school. Keely said that the only thing that she could do is to give Anya her hair. Keely did it and gave her hair to Anya. By showing Anya that she cares for Anya, Keely went to school bald. So Anya and Keely went to school having no hair. Keely found courage and strength to do something positive for Anya and the two girls became friends.

Have you ever had a problem that just wouldn't go away? Anya did, she has alopecia areata. Alopecia areata is a rare disease that means that you're allergic to your own hair. Steph, a mean girl in school, and her crew think that she has cancer. Absolutely nothing will stand in their way of finding out the well known question, why is Anya wearing a wig? In Because of Anya, by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Anya finds out the hard way what it is like to have no hair. When Keely, Steph's friend, tries to talk to Anya, Anya does not know why, but she tries in every way possible to not let her secret get out to anyone. Will it go to far? Will the secret get out? If so, how? What will they think of her? Find out by reading the absolutely amazing book by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Because of Anya.

I can totally relate to this book. I have this disease, and I cried through the entire thing. I felt every single emotion described, and I think it's great for kids to read to raise awareness.

Pre-teen girls don't wear wigs - but Anya does, and when Keely and her group find out, they imagine the worst. Anya is struggling with a disease which causes baldness, and which has made her a near recluse. As Keely discovers more about Anya, she learns important lessons on how best to help in this moving story of an uncertain friendship.