Jenna had a major accident and was put back together with major science to stay alive. Her perspective on this is not desirable. Very good -- kind of flimsy story line.

Jenna Fox doesn't know her parents. She doesn't know if she has friends. When she wakes up after a year long coma she has to relearn everything. But some things come back to her quickly like words and walking but her memories come slowly. And everyday it is revealed that she doesn't know who Jenna Fox is.

I have heard so many great things about this book. They were all true. I'm surprised it took me so long to read this. When I finally did pick it up and start reading I was done with it in 11 hours. There is no other way to read it except in one sitting.

Jenna's story grips you from the very first page. You learn about her as she learns about herself. The story is horrifying and beautiful. How far would a person go? Where do you draw they line between saving someone and completely recreating someone? These are all questions this book makes you ask. It makes you think.

This is a sad story. Sometimes I was even disgusted at the actions of Jenna's parents but other times I could sympathize with them. It's also full of hope and betrayal and love. How can it be all these things at once? Mary E. Pearson has written a novel that our children will be reading. Our children's children will be reading. It's a classic. Read it please!

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Opening Sentence: '…I use to be someone...'

Jenna Fox is an only child and has spent all of her life striving to be the perfect child her parents expect her to be. Her parents adore her.

Then after a horrific accident, Jenna wakes up after being in a coma with no memories whatsoever. However it doesn't take long for her to start being aware of things that just seem odd. Things such as why has her family abruptly moved from Boston to California. Why does her grandmother appear to hate her? Why are her parents resistant to her going to school? And why can Jenna recite whole passages of Thoreau's Walden, but remember next to nothing of her own past? And why are her arms and legs not as functional as they were when she did ballet in the video's she is watching of her life so far?

It is hard to review this excellent book without giving spoilers - so from here on in there may be spoilers:

What I can say that this is set in a near-future world and a lot of new 'cures' are now medically possible. Also the questions of ethics about how far people should be allowed go to save a human life are coming into question. It is almost obvious from the first page that it is more than just amnesia after a long coma, but only slowly does the reader understand what's really happened, as Jenna pieces the clues together.

This is a very, very good book. ( )

Reviewed by Jaglvr for TeensReadToo.com

What makes us human? How far would you go to save your child? What is ethically and morally right and wrong? These are heavy questions that the author will make the reader ponder long after the last page has been turned.

Jenna Fox has just woken up from over a year-long coma. She doesn't remember anything, but has fragments of memory that she is slowly trying to piece together. There are people there that say they are her parents, and another woman that is her grandmother. Left with the video disks of her life, she starts to watch and ponder "Who is Jenna Fox?"

There has been an accident, but no one will talk to her about the details. As she slowly heals, Jenna questions everything and starts to fill in gaps. After a little while of recovery, she pushes to go to school and begins to attend a local charter school. There she meets an odd assortment of classmates.

Alice has medical issues of her own, and starts to explain the federal ethics board to Jenna. Each person is allotted 100 lifetime points to be used for medical reasons. Alice has prosthetic limbs and explains that limb replacement is relatively low on the point scale. Other procedures would be worth much more. Dane is a neighbor but something seems off with him. When Jenna looks in his eyes, he seems empty. And then there is Ethan. He's hiding a dark secret of his own.

As Jenna discovers the world around her, the secrets and mysteries that are her life slowly start to be revealed. Remembering what Alice has explained about the lifetime points, Jenna comes to realize that there are even deeper secrets about her that she must uncover. Her parents have moved her from Boston to California. Is it to protect her from those that were involved with the accident? Or does it have more far-reaching medical and ethical implications?

Without wanting to give away the plot twists and hidden mysteries of the story, I will tell you that the issues Ms. Pearson raises will cause you to ponder how far science should be allowed to explore. As Jenna tries to discover, the reader will also be forced to wonder how much of us do we need to keep us truly human? Ms. Pearson makes the reader question if it's truly the flesh and blood that makes us human, or if there is something further inside that gives us our identity. Comparing the
lack of emotion that Dane has with Jenna's unwavering questioning of everything, it shows the reader that things are not always black and white. The majority of us live in the gray area that is between the two extremes.

Read THE ADORATION OF JENNA FOX to find out what it means to sacrifice everything for love and how to really be human. ( )

The Adoratin of Jenna Fox was a powerful and amazing story. When Jenna Fox wakes up after being in a coma for a year, she is confused and has no memory of her old life. She must re-learn a lot and watch home movies to trigger her memory. She feels lost in her own body and doesn't have contact with anyone other than her parents and grandmother. Jenna is curious why she can't remember any of friends she had or the house she was living in prior to the accident. Her family had moved from Boston to California during the coma. Jenna's parents are being very secretive, and the reader is pulled right in. As the story unfolds, the reader learns as Jenna learns and starts to put things together. Mary Pearson wrote this story beautifully and you'll have to read the book to have all of the questions answered. ( )