My sister's keeper : a novel

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Label

My sister's keeper : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Jodi Picoult

Title variation

My sisters keeper

Creator

• Picoult, Jodi, 1966-
• truePicoult, Jodi, 1966-

Subject

• trueDomestic fiction
• trueParent and child
• Teenagers -- Fiction
• trueSixteen-year-old girls
• trueLawyers
• trueDonation of organs, tissues, etc
• Mother-daughter relationship -- Fiction
• trueSuing (Law)
• trueFamily relationships
• trueYoung men
• trueSisters
• trueThirteen-year-old girls
• Children -- Fiction
• Leukemia -- Patients -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Sisters -- Fiction
• trueMainstream fiction
• trueAdult books for young adults
• Donation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Fiction
• Organ donors -- Fiction
• Girls -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Teenage girls -- Fiction
• Donation of organs, tissues, etc -- Fiction
• truePeople with leukemia
• Sick children -- Fiction
• trueFormer lawyers
• trueMultiple perspectives
• Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
• trueBooks to movies
• Leukemia -- Patients -- Fiction

Genre

• trueMainstream fiction
• Fiction
• trueDomestic fiction
• trueAdult books for young adults
• trueMultiple perspectives
• trueBooks to movies

Language

eng

Summary

Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate

Theme

• trueDealing with illness

Storyline

• trueIntricately plotted
• trueIssue-oriented

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Tone

• trueMoving
• trueHaunting

Writing style

• trueCompelling

Character

• trueSympathetic
• trueRelatable

Award

• Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award, 2006.
• Alex Award, 2005.
• Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Maryland), High School, 2007.
• Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Books for Young Adults, 2004.
• Heartland Award, 2006.
• Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards, Young Adult, 2007.
• Virginia Readers' Choice Award for High School, 2007.
• School Library Journal Best Books: Best Adult Books 4 Teens, 2005.

Cataloging source

LKR

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

Intended audience

Adult

Intended audience source

Follett Library Resources

LC call number

PS3566.I372

LC item number

P47 2005

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

770

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult