My sister's keeper [BOOK CLUB KIT]

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My sister's keeper [BOOK CLUB KIT]

Statement of responsibility

Jodi Picoult

Creator

• Picoult, Jodi, 1966-

Subject

• Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
• Organ donors -- Fiction
• Sick children -- Fiction
• Leukemia -- Patients -- Fiction
• Teenage girls -- Fiction
• Sisters -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate<U+2014>a life and a role that she has never challenged...until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister<U+2014>and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves. My Sister<U+2019>s Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child<U+2019>s life, even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Is it worth trying to discover who you really are, if that quest makes you like yourself less? Should you follow your own heart, or let others lead you? Once again, in My Sister<U+2019>s Keeper, Jodi Picoult tackles a controversial real-life subject with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

Interest level

UG

Literary form

fiction

Reading level

5.3

Study program name

Accelerated Reader AR