Handle with care : a novel / Jodi Picoult.
Every expectant parent will tell you that they don't want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they'd been given the choice. Instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, the pitying stares of "luckier" parents, and maybe worst of all, the what-ifs. What if their child had been born healthy? But it's all worth it because Willow is, well, funny as it seems, perfect. She's smart as a whip, on her way to being as pretty as her mother, kind, brave, and for a five-year-old an unexpectedly deep source of wisdom. Willow is Willow, in sickness and in health. Everything changes, though, after a series of events forces Charlotte and her husband to confront the most serious what-ifs of all. What if Charlotte should have known earlier of Willow's illness? What if things could have been different? What if their beloved Willow had never been born? To do Willow justice, Charlotte must ask herself these questions and one more. What constitutes a valuable life?
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- ISBN: 0743296419
- ISBN: 0743296427
- ISBN: 9780743296410
- ISBN: 9780743296427
- Physical Description: viii, 477 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First Atria Books edition
- Publisher: New York, NY : Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., [2009]
- Copyright: ©2009
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- PBK edition published 2009 by Washington Square Press
- Target Audience Note:
- 850L Lexile
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- Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.9 25 130805.
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| Old Fort Branch Library | McN FIC PIC (Text) | 37810434610555 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
| Albemarle Main Library | FIC Picoult (Text) | 31010000666455 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | F PICOULT (Text) | 39493107002802 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Alexander Main Library | F Picoult (Text) | 34269001008011 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Alleghany Public Library | F PICOULT (Text) | 40599000759376 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Anderson Creek Public Library | F Pic (Text) | 33630003921678 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Angier Public Library | F Pic (Text) | 33632002447473 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Annie Hubbard McEachern Public Library | F PICOULT (Text) | 34510000412542 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Ashe County Public Library | F PIC (Text) | 50503011225697 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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