The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Author: Mary E. Pearson
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1429952059
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn't remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers? This fascinating novel represents a stunning new direction for acclaimed author Mary Pearson. Set in a near future America, it takes readers on an unforgettable journey through questions of bio-medical ethics and the nature of humanity. Mary Pearson's vividly drawn characters and masterful writing soar to a new level of sophistication. The Adoration of Jenna Fox is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Author: Mary E Pearson
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1743436653
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
'I used to be someone. Someone named Jenna Fox.' Jenna wakes from a coma after a horrific accident to find her life a blank page and her own identity a mystery. Her parents think her recovery is a miracle, but what really happened to Jenna Fox? A gripping thriller set in a future that may be closer than we think. 'Why can I remember the details of the French Revolution but I can't remember if I ever had a best friend?' When Jenna wakes following her accident, her recovery is slow. One day she can't walk; the next she can. One day her right eyelid droops; the next it doesn't. But at what cost has her recovery come? What are her parents hiding from her? And why does her grandmother, Lily, hate her so? When the memories do come, they're more than anyone bargained for, and as Jenna struggles to work out who she is, and what exactly makes us who we are, one thing becomes very clear: Jenna Fox is no ordinary teenage girl. Who is Jenna Fox? 'I read this book in less than one day - it's a real page-turner! I found Jenna's story compelling, and every character is unique down to the last detail.Nine and a half out of ten.' Lucienne, 18

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Author: Mary E. Pearson
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741756405
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
Jenna wakes from a coma after a horrific accident to find her life a blank page and her own identity a mystery. Her parents think her recovery is a miracle, but what really happened to Jenna Fox? A gripping thriller set in a future that may be closer than we think.

Fox Forever

Author: Mary E. Pearson
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 0805096396
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
Locke Jenkins has some catching up to do. After spending 260 years as a disembodied mind in a little black box, he has a perfect new body. But before he can move on with his unexpected new life, he'll have to return the Favor he accepted from the shadowy resistance group known as the Network. Locke must infiltrate the home of a government official by gaining the trust of his daughter, seventeen-year-old Raine, and he soon finds himself pulled deep into the world of the resistance—and into Raine's life. In Fox Forever, Mary E. Pearson brings the story she began in The Adoration of Jenna Fox and continued in The Fox Inheritance to a breathtaking conclusion as Locke discovers that being truly human requires much more than flesh and blood.

The Fox Inheritance

Author: Mary E. Pearson
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1429926791
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
Once there were three. Three friends who loved each other—Jenna, Locke, and Kara. And after a terrible accident destroyed their bodies, their three minds were kept alive, spinning in a digital netherworld. Even in that disembodied nightmare, they were still together. At least at first. When Jenna disappeared, Locke and Kara had to go on without her. Decades passed, and then centuries. Two-hundred-and-sixty years later, they have been released at last. Given new, perfect bodies, Locke and Kara awaken to a world they know nothing about, where everyone they once knew and loved is long dead. Everyone except Jenna Fox.

A Room on Lorelei Street

Author: Mary E. Pearson
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 146680436X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description
Zoe's arms prickle. She turns, trying to take it all in. The ache inside returns. It is not for her. It is too much. A real room with real floors and walls. A room for sleeping, and reading and dancing and . . . in her imagination she has pictured the room, but she has never pictured herself in it. Can seventeen-year-old Zoe make it on her own? A room is not much. It is not arms holding you. Not a kiss on the forehead. Not a packed lunch or a remembered birthday. Just a room. But for seventeen-year-old Zoe, struggling to shed the suffocating responsibility of her alcoholic mother and the controlling guilt of her grandmother, a rented room on Lorelei Street is a fierce grab for control of her own future. Zoe rents a small room from Opal Keats, an eccentric old lady who has a difficult past of her own, but who chooses to live in the possibility of the future. Zoe tries to find that same possibility in her own future, promising that she will never go crawling back. But with all odds against her, can a seventeen-year-old who only slings hash to make ends meet make it on her own? Zoe struggles with this worry and the guilt of abandoning her mother as she goes to lengths that even she never dreamed she would in order to keep the room on Lorelei Street.

The Miles Between

Author: Mary E. Pearson
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1429927631
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Destiny Faraday makes a point of keeping her distance from her classmates at Hedgebrook Academy. Her number-one rule: Don't get attached. But one day, unexpectedly finding a car at their disposal, Destiny and three of her classmates embark on an unauthorized road trip. They're searching for one fair day—a day where the good guy wins and everything adds up to something just and right. Their destination: Langdon, a town that Destiny's unsuspecting companions hope will hold simply a day of fun. But, as Destiny says, "Things are not always what they seem." Only she knows that Langdon holds far more than that—a deep secret she has never shared with anyone. The Miles Between explores the wonder and magic of a very real world where chance, mystery, and secrets abound.

The Jenna Fox Chronicles

Author: Mary E. Pearson
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 146688553X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 839

Book Description
The Jenna Fox Chronicles: The Adoration of Jenna Fox, The Fox Inheritance, and Fox Forever This award-winning trilogy explores what it means to be human. Set in a future United States, it begins with Jenna's search for identity, a quest as old as history but as startling as the future, and continues with her friend Locke Jenkins whose life is catapaulted into a future he never could have imagined. The Adoration of Jenna Fox: When seventeen-year-old Jenna Fox wakes from a coma, it isn't only her friends and family she doesn't remember—she's forgotten herself. Jenna is told that she had an accident so horrific it's a miracle that she survived. As Jenna's memories return to her, her confusion grows. This life doesn't feel like hers. This body doesn't feel like hers. What happened while Jenna was asleep? Why do her parents seem so afraid and her grandmother so cold? the answers to those questions will change everything. The Fox Inheritance: Jenna, Locke, and Kara have been separated from their bodies, their minds cast off into darkness. Together, the three friends weather their purgatory—until one day, Jenna vanishes. As the years pass, Locke and Kara take solace in each other's presence. After nearly three lifetimes have passed, thay are given new bodies and reintroduced into a world they can no longer recognize. Fox Forever: Favors, especially those owed to the Network, rarely go unclaimed. Locke Jenkins learns this the hard way when the resistance group comes knocking at his door. His task involves seventeen-year-old Raine, daughter to a powerful man in the government that the Network seeks to destroy. But what starts as a political plot soon turns into something more complicated. Includes bonus chapters from Mary Pearson Kiss of Deception!

The Rotten Beast

Author: Mary E. Pearson
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1466801557
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16

Book Description
A new, original science fiction story by Mary E. Pearson which features characters from and takes place in the near-future world of The Jenna Fox Chronicles. In "The Rotten Beast," a sixteen-year-old girl named Allys, living in a near future version of the U.S., is vehemently opposed to the way scientists are meddling with human and artificial life. In fact, she blames such scientific overreaching for the illness which is killing her. When she awakens one day to find that her parents have gone against her wishes and had an illegal operation performed to save her life and restore her body, she is furious and must come to terms with this new chance at life, which she didn't ask for and didn't think she wanted. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Glass Arrow

Author: Kristen Simmons
Publisher: Tor Teen
ISBN: 1466828781
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335

Book Description
"Like The Handmaid's Tale, Simmons's book serves as essential commentary on women's rights."--Cosmopolitan.com Once there was a time when men and women lived as equals, when girl babies were valued, and women could belong only to themselves. But that was ten generations ago. Now women are property, to be sold and owned and bred, while a strict census keeps their numbers manageable and under control. The best any girl can hope for is to end up as some man's forever wife, but most are simply sold and resold until they're all used up. Only in the wilderness, away from the city, can true freedom be found. Aya has spent her whole life in the mountains, looking out for her family and hiding from the world, until the day the Trackers finally catch her. Stolen from her home, and being groomed for auction, Aya is desperate to escape her fate and return to her family, but her only allies are a loyal wolf she's raised from a pup and a strange mute boy who may be her best hope for freedom . . . if she can truly trust him. The Glass Arrow is a haunting, yet hopeful, new novel from Kristen Simmons, the author of the popular Article 5 trilogy. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.