I know I'm too liberal with my five stars, but I'm seriously going to give this to the next person who says there aren't any good teen books being written lately. This one has excellent writing paired with a gripping futuristic plot that kept me turning pages in every small crack of time available!

Jenna Fox wakes up from a coma with no memory of who she is, or of the people who want her to call them Mother and Father. She seems to have no friends, yet she finds herself able to recite entire passages of Thoreau. And when she does begin to remember things, they are not things a normal person should remember -- such as her own baptism at two weeks old.

Another sci fi with a girl protagonist -- would be very interesting paired with Life As We Knew It. Begs to be discussed! Incredible suspense and succession of plot twists. It's hard to add favorite quotes without any spoilers, but here are a few:

"When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?"

"Maybe that is all any life is composed of, trivia that eventually adds up to a person, and maybe I just don't have enough of it yet to be a whole one."

"Do certain events in our life leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?"