The Adoration of Jenna Fox (265 pages)

Mary Pearson has written a book that will have your students talking/arguing about any number of issues brought up in this plot. Here is the story of Jenna Fox, a young girl who parents are intelligent people, her father a scientist connected to a university. The question is this; just how far will parents go to protect their children? Waking up from what she is told has been a coma lasting for one year, Jenna remembers nothing. She has been given pictures, home movies and although they spark something- it isn't really enough to bring everything back. Why won't anyone talk to her about the accident? And then one day, she cuts herself accidentally, but it is a deep cut and it is a cut that answers all those questions and brings up more....The book has some discussion questions at the end as well as questions for the author. This book would pair very nicely with Jody Picolt's My Sister's Keeper.