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Author: Jill Krementz

📘 How it feels to fight for your life by Jill Krementz

Fourteen children tell how they battle pain, uncertainty, and the changes brought about in their lives by serious illness such as cancer, severe burns, asthma, and kidney failure.

First publish date: 1989

Authors: Jill Krementz

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