Gf Kid A Celiac Disease Survival Guide

11-year-old Paris and her parents, Melissa London and Eric Glickman, collaborated on this humorous, upbeat, and reassuring story about having Celiac Disease (CD). (Paris was diagnosed with CD at 11.) Celiac Disease is an autoimmune disease, affecting about 1 in 133 Americans; the only known treatment is a lifelong gluten-free (GF) diet (no foods containing wheat, barley or rye.) Spunky, 11year-old Paris narrates this first-person account with wisecracking, preteen attitude. The clever, cartoony black-and-white illustrations bring the story to life and offer many funny asides about the GF life. Paris tells what's it's like to have CD, what happens to her body when she eats gluten, and what life is like when you have to avoid gluten. She takes kids through aspects of preteen social life as a GF kid, offering helpful hints on what to bring to school, parties, and sleepovers and how to deal with eating out. There's also information on where to buy GF food, how to read labels, as well as a few GFrecipes. The way Paris tells it, it's almost cool to be GF!London, Melissa is the author of 'Gf Kid A Celiac Disease Survival Guide' with ISBN 9781890627690 and ISBN 1890627690.