title: The Girl With No Hair: A Story About Alopecia Areata (Health Press for Kids)
author: Elizabeth Murphy-Melas
description: Alopecia areata is a common condition that creates significant stress and anxiety, particularly in patients who are young. ...Patients reading this book will not only learn basic important facts about alopecia areata, but will see a character with a personality that any child would want to have as a friend...this delightful book will help an affected child's confidence and self-esteem. --Robert S. Haber MD, Director, Pediatric Dermatology, Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, University Hospitals of Cleveland<br /><br />Fitting in is really the biggest need ... Once that is accomplished and self-esteem is restored, ... childhood can be secured. -- --Madonna Coffman, Board President, Locks of Love<br /><br />Well-written and accurate. I certainly want to have it in my office: it will be very helpful for children. --Vera H. Price MD, UCSF Dermatology Faculty Practice, Past President, National Alopecia Areata Foundation
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  © 2015 Josi S. Kilpack.  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by
  any means without permission in writing from the publisher, Shadow Mountain®.
  The views expressed herein are the responsibility of the author and do not
  necessarily represent the position of Shadow Mountain.
  
  All characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual
  persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
  
   **Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data**
  
  Kilpack, Josi S., author.
  
  A heart revealed / Josi S. Kilpack.
  
  pages cm
  
  Set in Regency England, Amber Marie Sterlington is the most sought after young
  woman in London, but when she begins to lose her hair (due to alopecia
  areata), Amber is exiled to the countryside where she meets Thomas Richards.
  Even as she is falling in love with him, she knows she must end things before
  he realizes what she’s been hiding from him.
  
  ISBN 978-1-60907-990-1 (paperbound)
  
  1\. Baldness—Fiction. 2. Hair—Diseas