When the Past Is Missing . . .

This week I'm sharing teen books featuring characters who have lost their memories.  Here are a few of my favorites . . . .

As I Wait by Elizabeth Scott
Seventeen-year-old Ava awakens with amnesia and a feeling that something is wrong with her life, her mother, and her friends but when the mysterious Morgan appears, her flashbacks of life as a spy for a shady government agency begin to make sense.

Survival Colony 9 by Joshua David Bellin
Querry Genn, a member of one of the last human survivor groups following global war, is targeted by the monstrous Skaldi, although Querry has no memory of why.

Being Henry David by Cal Armistead
Seventeen-year-old 'Hank,' who can't remember his identity, finds himself in Penn Station with a copy of Thoreau's Walden as his only possession and must figure out where he's from and why he ran away.

Stolen by Vivian Vande Velde
A girl finds herself running through the forest at the edge of a village with no memory of anything, even her own name, and later learns that she might be twelve-year-old Isabelle, believed to be stolen by a witch six years before.


More Books --
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary PEarson
Asking for It by Louise O'Neill
Black River Falls by Jeff Hirsch
Complicit by Stephanie Kuehn
The Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge
The Dead I Know by Scott Gardner
Don't Look Back by Jennifer Armentrout
Don't Turn Around by Michelle Gagnon
Forgotten: A Novel by Cat Patrick
The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April Henry
I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormer
The Inventor's Secret by Andrea Cremer
The Last Thing I Remember by Andrew Klavan
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
The Program by Suzanne Young
Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick
White Cat by Holly Black


Check these books out on display at the Arnold Branch through September 22, 2017.

My Favorite Books, Part 2

Here are some of my favorite books for teens from 2013 . . .

Nameless: A Tale of Beauty and Madness by Lili St. Crow
Raised in luxury as the pampered, adopted heiress of Enrico Vultusino, godfather of the Seven -- the powerful Families that rule magic-ridden New Haven -- Camille knows that she is not really Family. Unlike them, she is a mortal with a past that lies buried in trauma. Then she meets the mysterious Tor and begins to uncover the secrets of her birth.

This is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith
Perfect strangers Graham Larkin and Ellie O'Neill meet online when Graham accidentally sends Ellie an e-mail about his pet pig, Wilbur. The two 17-year-olds strike up an e-mail relationship from opposite sides of the country and don't even know each other's first names. What's more, Ellie doesn't know Graham is a famous actor, and Graham doesn't know about the big secret in Ellie's family tree. When the relationship goes from online to in-person, they find out whether their relationship can be the real thing.

Being Henry David by Cal Armistead
Seventeen-year-old 'Hank,' who can't remember his identity, finds himself in Penn Station with a copy of Thoreau's Walden as his only possession and must figure out where he's from and why he ran away.

Boy Nobody by Allen Zadoff
Sixteen-year-old Boy Nobody, an assassin controlled by a shadowy government organization, The Program, considers sabotaging his latest mission because his target reminds him of the normal life he craves.