Parents need to know that this sci-fi book includes some kissing between teens and violence that's mostly mentioned in flashback, including an epidemic and natural disaster that kills scores of people and a car accident that kills teens and lands one in a coma. One male student almost attacks the heroine, but help arrives on time.
Positive messages:Parents break the law to save their child, but the book does a good job of weighing what the sacrifices were and how their controversial decisions affected their child.
Violence:Jenna is almost attacked by a male classmate, and she fights back before help arrives. Jenna breaks dishes in a rage and cuts open her hand. Vague flashback descriptions of hospital procedures, brain and burn damage, and a car accident that kills teens and lands one in a coma. Mentions of an epidemic and natural disasters that killed scores of people.
I absolutly love this book acually I started writing my own story with twist and turns on my own adoration of jenna fox just the write combo of mystery action and every thing else
i don't mean to be rude but i think that this book is the most pointless book. if someone is only 10% human you will be dead, just because its the future doesn't mean that your going to be alive. sorry but its not going to happen
ohh also don't bother reading it, its a waist of time
I HAVENT FINISHED READING YET, BUT WHEN U FIRST START READING THE BOOK ITS HARD TO PUT IT DOWN, BUT AS YOU START GETTING TO THE END OF IT (where i am now) STARTS GETTING DIFFICULT TO KEEP READING. OTHER THAN THAT ITS A GOOD BOOK
Many years into the future, biotechnology is illegal and if it stays that way, Jenna won’t know what to do. One day Jenna Fox wakes up and doesn’t know who she is. Someone says she is her mother, someone says he is her father. All Jenna has to look at is old home movies. Slowly, Jenna starts to figure out about her past and knows that she can’t get it back; she can’t fix her mistakes. She wants to begin anew and be a different Jenna but … she can’t. Is someone holding her back? The voices in her head say Hurry. Hurry, Jenna. Why does she have to hurry?
The Adoration of Jenna Fox was … different. It was very emotional and I almost cried at times, but it was odd. The ideas that are brought up in the book are totally unique and everything connects with one another: the settings, the characters, and the emotions are all part of the story. Author Mary E. Pearson transported me to a different century entirely, one that doesn’t even exist yet. Many feelings are repeated within the book, which I think was definitely needed to get the point across. All together, this book was unique, interesting, odd, and wacky but I still don’t know if I like it. One thing is for sure, though. You won’t forget it.
This book wasn't my favorite, but it was worth reading. I enjoyed it. It was quite different. Not completely realistic, but still fun to read. Jenna truly does as well as she can with not being able to remember a whole lot. Also, being illegal might be difficult.
I think it gets students thinking about life and the value of it. It shows how parents will do anything to keep a child alive. It is well written and holds ones attention. Good characters.
Amazing sci-fi book deals with mature stuff in an amazing way!
The Adoration of Jenna Fox was probably one of the best books I've ever read. The book is basically about a teen girl named Jenna Fox recovering from an accident that made her lose her previous memories as well as the accident. She lives with her nervous, wants-a-perfect-child mother and her cold, mean grandmother Lily. Eventually, after watching home movies of her life and remembering certain memories, she puts together the details of her accident as well as her previous life with her best friends Loche and Kara. One of the things I found really intresting in this book is that it's set in a future time period where things like a massive earthquake rip across California and kill millions of people, the over-use of antibiotics start a pandemic which kills a 1/4 of the world population, and science has advanced far beyond cloning. This book was great because it really made me think about what is ethical, and how much of a human are you with only 10%, the butterfly of the brain. It also brought up different issues, like the dynamics of a family after a tragedy occurs, and how letting go can sometimes be the best thing. Another very intresting thing in this book was the afterword, when the author answered some questions about the book, and revealed that her idea for The Adoration of Jenna Fox came when her daughter was diognosed with cancer, and then a few years later, her younger daughter was diognosed with the same type. This is part of the reason I think the feelings are so real and rough and pure. This was an amazing book I would recommend to teens who aren't usually big sci-fi fans as well as teens with a love of science or The Hunger Games books. Fabulous!
I think it's a great book, I had a hard time with it at the beggining. I didn't get it at first, but it turns out to be a really great book. It takes place in the future, so there are some odd (curious :) ) twists that make it interesting. I don't think that everybody would like this book. Some might think that it has too much technology that makes it hard to understand, and there are a few 'damns' and 'hells', but other than that the only other thing would be kissing, and there isn't enough to spark any unclean thoughts. Great read!
I like the book.You have to read every part or you never know whats happening in the book. I also think you have to at a age where you can understand whats happening in this book
Brilliant book-but is it really written for teens?
In my opinion The adoration of Jenna Fox is a brilliant book.
It is written in such a gripping way that it is difficult to stop reading it.
I have to say that i read this book twice and second time gives me so much more than the first time.
Only then you can understand the complex topic ( or you can start to understand it) and the perfectly arranged characters. You see each character stands for one certain type of a human. Apart from thiy the reader starts to identify with Jenna.You can also imagine how complicated and difficult this age really is(problems, first love..).
There's not so much about love etc in the book. Although Jenna falls in love with an other boy and there are also some kisses , love isn't a important topic in this book.
To put it in a nutshell, you can say that it is a really good book but there are a few points i don't really understand and so i hope you can help me with this :)
So do you really think that this is a Book for such young ones? ( 10,11,12,13) in fact the topics in AJF are quite difficult to understand ( as i said before) , especially Bioethics...
And why do you think it is a Young adult Book in any way?? With this topic it could also be an adult book..