Beginning of the Book...

For pages through 50.
My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult was published in 2004. The chapters are different characters, so it gets confusing sometimes. Anna is a thirteen year old girl that was born to save her sisters life. Whenever her sister Kate is hospitalized, Anna is too. Katie has acute promyelocytic leukemia. So far Anna has given a lot of things to Katie from her own body. Such as, cord blood, she has given Kate cells when she has a relapse, doctors have taken bone marrow many times, granulocytes, and peripheral blood stem cells. Now she is being told that she has to give one of her kidneys to her sister. But Anna doesn't want to, so she goes and gets a lawyer who's name is Campbell Alexander. When Anna tells Campbell that she wants to sue her own parents for the right to her own body he thinks that she is talking about her being pregnant. Once she explains to him what all is going on he agrees to represent her. Anna tells him that she does not have any money so he tells her she can shine his door knobs in the office. The chapter that is for Anna's mom, Sarah, is about when her and Brian, Anna's father, first found out that Katie was diagnosed with leukemia. The chapter that is for Anna's father, Brian, is about how he realizes that no one ever pays a lot of attention to Anna or Jesse, Anna and Kate's older brother, because everything is always about Kate. Brian is a Firefighter so he goes to the fire station on most nights so he calls the firehouse his second home. This is what is happening in the first 50 pages.

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_4X_Treatment_of_Children_with_Acute_Promyelocytic_Leukemia_24.asp- This website describes what acute promyelocytic leukemia is and how it is treated.

http://www.jodipicoult.com/- is Jodi Picoult's website that has all books that she has written and information about her.