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Perri Klass

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Perri Klass

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Perri Klass is a pediatrician who writes fiction and non-fiction. She writes about children and families, about medicine, about food and travel, and about knitting. Her newest book is a novel, The Mercy Rule, and the book before that was a work of non-fiction, Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor, written in the form of letters to her older son as he starts medical school.
She lives in New York City, where she is Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics at New York University, and she has three children of her own. She is also Medical Director of Reach Out and Read, a national literacy organization which works through doctors and nurses to promote parents reading aloud to young children.
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A Not Entirely Benign Proce...

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A Good Time to Be Born: How...

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The Mercy Rule

3.09 avg rating — 345 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions
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Quirky Kids: Understanding ...

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Treatment Kind and Fair: Le...

3.88 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions
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The Mystery of Breathing

2.98 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions
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Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician...

3.83 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 1992 — 7 editions
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Every Mother Is a Daughter:...

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Other Women's Children

3.73 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 1990 — 7 editions
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Treatment Kind and Fair: Le...

4.17 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions
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“Helping your quirky child become the person she was meant to be will involve getting to know and understand a remarkable individual. Emma”
Perri Klass, Quirky Kids: Understanding and Helping Your Child Who Doesn't Fit In- When to Worry and When Not to Worry

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