

gets all the details right.”- The San Francisco Chronicle Pulled by the heart-bruising love story, readers will stop to contemplate irresistible questions.”- Booklist, Starred Review “Zevin is completely convincing on the intensity of early passion and the way it can evaporate in the rays of something new, and she has a light touch with the deceptively shallow anguish of adolescence.”- The New York Times Book Review Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. She wouldnt have wanted to kiss him back.īut Naomi picked heads. 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 wouldnt have to spend her junior year relearning all the French she supposedly knew already. She would understand why her best friend, Will, keeps calling her “Chief.” Shed get all his inside jokes, and maybe he wouldnt be so frustrated with her for forgetting things she cant possibly remember. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She wouldnt have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She wouldnt have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldnt have hit her head on the steps.

If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss.
