My Sister's Keeper Resources

Websites

My Sister's Keeper on the Author's Website

Picoult's website has an in-depth conversation with the author about My Sister's Keeper, what inspired it, and what Jodi thinks her fan's reaction might be.

My Sister's Keeper Reading Sample

Want an excerpt of the novel? The publisher's website has everything else you might need from My Sister's Keeper. Except a kidney.

Movie or TV Productions

My Sister's Tomatoes

Critics were split down the middle, kind of like the Fitzgerald family, about the movie adaptation of this book.

Two Thumbs Up

Roger Ebert is one of the critics who enjoyed the story. We have no idea if he read the book, but it would be a logistical feat to flip the pages with two thumbs up…

Articles and Interviews

A Good Read

Jodi reveals in this interview that she was not happy with the change made to the ending of My Sister's Keeper. Did they really chuck her off the set?

Five Qs with JP

How do Jodi's characters seem so real? Does she have multiple personalities?

Money Money Money Money

Jodi thinks the reason the film adaptation didn't so well is because they changed the ending. What do you think?

Video

Religion and Ethics and Picoult

In this PBS clip, Picoult talks about the ethics behind the Fitzgerald family's choices in My Sister Keeper, and a few other dilemmas from her books.

Let's Talk About Stars

This interviewer is not only lucky enough to get to chat with the film's three leading ladies, but he also reads one of our favorite quotes from the book.

Pennies for Your Thoughts

This video has barely a thing to do with My Sister's Keeper, but Picoult's ghost-hunting story is pretty spookily awesome. Spawesome? Awespooky?

Audio

Picoult, We Can Hear You

In this podcast, Jodi talks about her own My Sister's Keeper-esque choice that she had to make regarding her own son Jake.

Book Club with an Accent

My Sister's Keeper is talked about across the pond, too, in this book club chat on BBC Radio.

Images

Under a Microscope

Picoult puts her characters under a microscope, so here's what Kate's blood would look like under a microscope.

My Sister's Poster

Here's the movie poster. Do the characters look like you imagine them?

Where Are We?

Why can't we find the setting of Upper Darby on the map? Where do you think it would be located if it were real?