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Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood

Author: Gregory, Julie

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 6.1
Points 11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 66935
Points per Word 0.000164
Page Count 244
Points per Page 0.045082

Description

The author describes her life as the daughter of a woman afflicted with Munchausen by proxy, a form of child abuse in which a parent, most often a mother, invents or induces illness in a child in order to gain attention from medical professionals.