Living with Epilepsy

This powerful and eye opening picture book that uses the first-person testimony of Summer, a 12-year-old living with epilepsy. Summer explains the different forms of epilepsy that she suffers from, absent seizures and tonic clonic seizures.

Summer talks about how her condition affects her everyday life and the emotional challenges she faces. The open and clear text encourages students to empathise with other children’s differences and recognizes the similarities between their own lives and hers.