In May, Henry Holt Books for Young ReadersThe Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson. The book “is set in the dystopian near future, after global warming has led to polar bear extinction and a second woman has been elected president. Teen-aged Jenna is slowly emerging from a coma with no memories of her past and no understanding of the present. Still in terrible physical shape from a horrific accident, Jenna is home-bound, with her parents feeding her a steady diet of home movies, life lessons, world info, physical therapy. As Jenna slowly begins to remember, she also begins to question what lead her to the fateful accident. Will Jenna’s family be able to answer her questions with the truth? Will Jenna find out who she was—and will she return to being that person or start a new life for herself?
“Did her parents go too far to save the Jenna they loved? Author Mary Pearson found herself asking very similar questions after both of her teen-aged daughters were diagnosed with cancer. While family emergencies send most of us into a deep depression or panic, Mary used her time at the hospital to ask questions, to wonder, to brainstorm, deepening her belief that one can never know what one might do in an impossible situation.”
Holt has launched a web site for the book with a video trailer at www.whoisjennafox.com/.
Fox has already bought the film rights to the book, with Julia Pistor (Spiderwick Chronicles) attached as producer and Brad Silberling (Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events) as director.