**From the New York Times best-selling author of Tomorrow, and
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, Gabrielle
Zevin's Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac is an imaginative YA novel all
about love and second chances.
**
If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She
wouldn't have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn't
have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn't have woken up in an
ambulance with amnesia.
She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even
have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. She
would understand why her best friend, Will, keeps calling her "Chief."
She'd get all his inside jokes, and maybe he wouldn't be so frustrated
with her for forgetting things she can't possibly remember.
She'd know about her mom's new family. She'd know about her dad's
fiancée. She wouldn't have to spend her junior year relearning all the
French she supposedly knew already. She never would have met James, the
boy with the questionable past and the even fuzzier future, who tells
her he once wanted to kiss her.
She wouldn't have wanted to kiss him back.
But Naomi picked heads.
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac is a 2008 Bank Street - Best
Children's Book of the Year.