The Adoration of Jenna Fox

by Mary E. Pearson

Jenna Fox is a seventeen-year-old girl who is recovering from a life threatening accident that killed both of her friends, Kara & Locke.  Her memory is almost non-existent and she struggles with that knowledge.  Her days are taken up with watching videos of her life from newborn to just before the accident.  She doesn't understand why she walks funny, why she can't go to school, and why her parents don't want her to go out of the house.  She finally convinces her parents to allow her to go to a school, but the school is just a village charter that caters to students who don't really fit in anywhere else.  She meets Ethan, Allys, Gabriel and Dane.  She works on a project with Ethan at the mission. Jenna also meets her neighbor Mr. Bender, who seems something different than what he is supposed to be. 

Jenna's memory gradually comes back to her and she feels that she is being kept in the dark about what really happened to her.  She finds a key in her mother's room to a closet that contains three computers.  One of them is labeled Jenna Fox.  She wonders what they are for but is afraid to ask her parents about them.  She finally figures out that she is way too many points over the limit in transplants.  When she confronts her parents about her knowledge, they convince her not to say anything.  The knowledge would not only affect them but many people who were in on the operations.  Allys finds out about her transplants and tells her parents to turn them in.  Allys gets sick and almost dies, but her parents come to Jenna's parents and she is helped with the bio-gel that saved Jenna.

Jenna lives to be over 260 years old.  She has Allys as a companion.  She had married Ethan and he was around for 70 years.  Not long after Ethan died, Jenna arranged to get a daughter, Kayla.  Kayla has many attributes of Ethan, but has Jenna's eyes.  Jenna decides that she will go to the cold of Boston when it is time to die, because no parent should outlive her child.