Pearson, Mary E. (2008). The Adoration of Jenna Fox. New York, New York: Henry Holt and Co.
ISBN: 9780805076684
272 pages
Classification: Fiction
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Level: 15-19
Stars: 5 stars
Subjects: Identity, High School, Relationships, Family, Future, Surgery
Reader's Annotation
Seventeen-year-old Jenna Fox wakes up from a year-long coma caused by a terrible accident unsure of who she is and who she used to be, and as she slowly gains her memoies back, she has more and more questions about who she was and what happened to her.
Summary
Jenna Fox has been told that is her name. She has been told that she's seventeen years old and that she was in a coma for a year after a terrible accident. But in spite of the questions answered by her friends and family and the home movies she watches of herself before the accident, there are some lingering questions. Why are people treating her so strangely? What really happened on the night of the accident? Why do her arms and legs not feel, look, or move the way they used to? As she slowly starts to remember pieces of her life before the accident, she questions even these memories, and she wonders what she can trust, how she can know who she is and, most importantly- who is Jenna Fox?
Notes
This has some similar themes to Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Trilogy. Readers who enjoyed this book may want to look into the series. It is equally thought-provoking about what makes you who you are, and how identity is formed.
Awards
A Book Sense "Top Ten" Summer Pick
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