This book is the book my group will be presenting, and I really liked reading it, even though I have read it before, it makes you think, no matter how many times you read it.
It's basically a book about a 13 year old girl named Anna, and she knows that the only reason she was born was because her sister, Kate (16). Kate was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL, very rare), and to live longer, she needed a perfect match donor. That donor needed to be a family member, and through stem cell research, Anna was born. Anna has undergone many surgeries to donate to her sister, since the day she was born, literally.
This book really made me think. If I had a daughter with leukemia, and had another from stem cell research, specifically born to save Kate's life, would I make that second daughter go through so many surgeries when in reality they are not benfitting her at all? They may be profiting the leukemic daughter, but knowing she isn't going to live that much longer(since she should have died at age 5), and making my second daughter undergo so many life risking surgeries...
Thinking about that is one thing Sara Fitzgerald, Kate and Anna's mother, does not do. She worries so much about Kate that compared to what Kate has gone through, any scrape and scratch Jesse (her son) and Anna get is nothing, (including a HUGE needle needed to draw marrow from Anna's hipbone).
Well, from the start of the book, Anna hires a lawyer for medical emancipation: rights for her own body. And as we go through the plot, we see a huge twist on why Anna actually started the case, and a speechless ending!
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