Top
If you could find out how it all ends, would you?
Seventeen-year-old Rose Levenson has a decision to make: Does she want to know how she's going to die? Because when Rose turns eighteen, she can take the test that will tell her if she carries the genetic mutation for Huntington's disease, the degenerative condition that is slowly killing her mother. With a fifty-fifty shot at inheriting her family's genetic curse, Rose is skeptical about pursuing anything that assumes she'll live to be a healthy adult--including going to ballet school and the possibility of falling in love. But when she meets a boy from a similarly flawed genetic pool and gets an audition for a dance scholarship in California, Rose begins to question her carefully laid rules.
Rules for 50/50 Chances by Kate McGovern is a young adult novel which, according to Publishers Weekly, "skillfully engages with questions of fate, choice, and truly terrible luck."
"Should appeal to fans of Gayle Forman's If I Stay . . . and Lauren Oliver's Before I Fall." –School Library Journal
“A page-turning portrayal of living at risk for Huntington’s disease, rich with the complex layers of tormented indecision that come with genetic screening. Would you want to know? A great read.” —Lisa Genova, New York Times–bestselling author of Still Alice and Inside the O’Briens
