The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
Published by Henry Holt and Company in 2008
265 pages
Warning: This novel contains violence, mild gory images, language and drinking involving teens.
Genre: Family, Science Fiction
This is a fascinating novel which deals which challenging and thought provoking issues. The novel begins with a teenage girl, Jenna, who has just woken up from a comma. She has no memory of what has happened to her and she has been in a coma for a year. Her parents tell her she was in an accident. To help jog her memory, they tell her to watch video after video from her ballet recitals, beach trips and birthday parties as a child. Jenna begins to notice that her body now is different then her body from the videos. Curious, she looks for the truth behind what happened when she realizes her parents, and others, are lying to her.
Published by Henry Holt and Company in 2008
265 pages
Warning: This novel contains violence, mild gory images, language and drinking involving teens.
Genre: Family, Science Fiction
This is a fascinating novel which deals which challenging and thought provoking issues. The novel begins with a teenage girl, Jenna, who has just woken up from a comma. She has no memory of what has happened to her and she has been in a coma for a year. Her parents tell her she was in an accident. To help jog her memory, they tell her to watch video after video from her ballet recitals, beach trips and birthday parties as a child. Jenna begins to notice that her body now is different then her body from the videos. Curious, she looks for the truth behind what happened when she realizes her parents, and others, are lying to her.
Readers, throughout this novel, can expect to question what is the essence of a person that makes them a distinguishable human. After reading this novel, we begin to look at others differently and we question what is the essence of ourselves.
It is also interesting to look at the different covers which have been printed for this novel. Both provide readers with a different insight into this ground breaking novel.
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