| Authors: |
Pearson, Mary (Mary E.)
|
|
|
| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
Medical ethics -- Fiction.
Bioethics -- Fiction.
Biotechnology -- Fiction.
Self-perception -- Fiction.
Memory -- Fiction.
Science fiction.
|
| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Henry Holt, 2008. |
| Description: |
266 p. ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780805076684 (hc : alk. paper) 0805076689 (hc : alk. paper) |
| Internetlink: |
Sample text
|
|
Publisher description
|
|
Contributor biographical information
|
| Series: |
The Jenna Fox chronicles
|
|
|
| Tags |
science fiction, ya, young adult, sci-fi, future, identity, bioethics, medical ethics, ethics, memory, accident, teen, young adult fiction, genetic engineering, amnesia, bioengineering, biotechnology, dystopia, family, coma, self-perception, teen fiction, futuristic, death, mystery, science, speculative fiction, cloning, medicine, near future, sf, fantasy, friendship, genetics, humanity, accidents, car accidents, friends, high school, life, memory loss, mothers and daughters, relationships, technology, thriller, american, car accident, creepy, grandmothers, love, medical, problem families, romance, self-discovery, sff, soul, suspense, teenagers, 21st century, butterflies, coming of age, computers, disabilities, ethical issues, family relationships, fiction, girls, loss, medical technology, memories, middle school, parent-child relationships, personal collection, realistic fiction, secrets, self, transplants, young adult literature, 2009, 232, adolescent, adult, artificial intelligence, belonging, best friend, biomedical ethics, bobcats, booklist, boston, brain, brain transplant, brain transplants, california, charlotte, children, comas, confusion, daughters, diary, disability, donor, dystopian, elevator, engineering, enhancement, environmentalism, experimentation, family relations, father, fathers, female, female narrator, female protagonist, finding self, first love, futuristic fiction, gabriel, girl, girly, grandmother, grief, healing, health, horror, illness, immortality, impact, injuries, kidlit, kids, light romance, lily, locke, loneliness, longevity, mac, meaning of life, medical science, moral dilemma, morality, mother, mother-daughter relationships, mothers, muslim women, new school, organ, organ transplants, poetry, pw, recovery, sage, sci fi, somalia, souls, speculative, strange, strong girls, summer, summer 2008, survival, tech, teen lit, teenage girls, thoughtful, transhumanism, transplant, walden, young adults |
| Rating: |
4 out of 5: They liked it |
| Community reviews |
|
Great until the last 10 pages by MechAngel |
| I loved this book up until the end. It's incredibly well-crafted and suspenseful, but the ending felt all wrong. |
|
|
|
| Summary: |
In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence. |