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Handle with care : a novel

Picoult, Jodi 1966- (author.).

Summary: 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?

Record details

ISBN: 0743296419
ISBN: 0743296427
ISBN: 9780743296410
ISBN: 9780743296427
Physical Description: print
viii, 477 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., [2009]
Copyright: ©2009

Content descriptions

General Note:	Paging may vary.
Formatted Contents Note:	PBK edition published 2009 by Washington Square Press
Target Audience Note:	850L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.9 25 130805.