My Sister's Keeper (final blog)

           This year, I read the book My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piccoult. The main plot of the story is that 16 year old Kate was diagnosed with leukemia when she was a child. She dealt with the illness the majority of her life. Her younger sister Anna was the one forced to donate bone marrow, organs, and whatever was required to treat her. Once Anna started to mature and grow up, she decides to sue her parents, Sara and Brian, for the rights of her own body since she refuses to donate a much needed kidney to Kate. Anna then decides to get a lawyer behind her parents backs. The trial continues to go on, and Kate begins to become more and more weaker because she needs the kidney. As the story goes on, it is revealed that Kate was helping Anna with the lawsuit because she was tired of living with leukemia and would prefer to just die instead. Anna ends up winning the case, and on the way to the hospital to visit Kate, she unfortunately gets into a bad car accident and dies of a brain injury.
         In my opinion, this book should be in a teacher's library because it really shows the reader how terrible cancer is, and what it's like for someone to go through it. There are also many lessons learned throughout the story. I believe the novel is mainly for high school students because it's about a medium reading level and would be harder to comprehend for younger students. The word choice Jodi Piccoult uses makes the reader feel very
emotional and almost as if they are another character in the book.