Bibliographical information:

Pearson, Mary E. The Adoration of Jenna Fox. New York: Henry Holt, 2008.

Brief summary:

Seventeen-year-old Jenna has just emerged from a coma, and finds herself in unfamiliar surroundings and missing memories of her earlier life. The novel traces her efforts to figure out who she is and what has happened to her.

Comments:

This is a thought-provoking novel, raising questions about identity, memory, science, technology, and government regulation. The story is also quite creepy, both in the scientific possiblities imagined and also in the family dynamics represented.

Grade/Age level:

Grades 6 and up

Cautions:

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--Lisa Gordis

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