Pearson, Mary E. The Adoration of Jenna Fox. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 2008. Print. ISBN 978-0-8050-7668-4. Hardcover. $16.95 USD.
Available Formats: Paperback, hardcover, eBook, unabridged compact disc and unabridged digital audio.
Annotation: Seventeen year old Jenna Fox has just spent the past year in a coma following a terrible accident. She awakes feeling unfamiliar in her body and home. A series of strange occurrences leaves her suspicious of her parents and desperate to find the answers to many difficult questions.
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Set in the not so distant future, seventeen year old Jenna Fox has just awaken from a yearlong coma after being in an accident. Initially, Jenna remembers nothing of her previous life. She doesn't remember her name, family, friends or home. Eventually, Jenna's memory slowly comes back to her. However, this new awareness leaves her even more unsure of herself and her surroundings. She wants to know more about her life and the accident, but her mother avoids her questions. Questions like how did they move to California while she was still in a coma? Why does her dad still live in Boston, when her entire family moved to California? Why do her hands feel so strange? Why does she “walk funny”? Why does her grandmother dislike her? Why does she hear the voices of her old friends in her sleep? Why won't anyone give her a straight answer?
Follow Jenna in her quest to uncover these mysteries and gain her life back in The Adoration of Jenna Fox.
Awards and Honors:
Winner of the 2010 Arkansas Teen Book Award
2009 Westchester Fiction Award
2010 International Reading Association Young Adult Choice Book
2010 Heartland Award Honor Award for Excellence in Young Adult Fiction
2009 Winner Distinguished Work of Fiction CLCSC
2009 New York Public Library Best Books
2008 Golden Kite Honor Award
YALSA 2010 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults
Librarians' Choices 2008
2008 School Library Journal Best Books
Kirkus Best Young Adult Books of 2008
VOYA Top Shelf Fiction 2008
2009 Capitol Choices for Teens
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Young Adult Interview:
“I enjoy reading mysteries, or
anything suspenseful. It makes me feel like I'm escaping into another
world. These kinds of stories allow me to feel engaged-like I'm
trying to solve the mystery right along with the characters.”
--Quote from Aimee J., age 22.
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