Kat Got Your Tongue - Softcover

Lee Weatherly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 055255197X ISBN 13: 9780552551977

Publisher: Corgi Childrens, 2007

Synopsis

After a terrible car accident, Kat wakes up with no idea who she is, and no memory of anything before the crash. She doesn't even recognize her mum, much less her friends from school—Poppy, Jade, and the mysterious Tina. Only after she finds her old diary—written in a voice no longer her own—does Kat begin to discover the terrible secrets of her previous life.

This incredible novel explores the damage amnesia can do to a family, and how one girl struggles to reconcile her new personality with her old.

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About the Author

Lee Weatherly grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, and currently lives in Hampshire, England, surrounded by teetering mountains of books and CDs. She is the author of two other novels, Child X, and Breakfast at Sadie's, both from David Fickling Books.

From School Library Journal

Grade 7–9—This novel begins with a bang, literally. Kathy—or Kat, as she comes to be known—has just been hit by a car. Though she is physically fine, she discovers that she has lost her memory completely. Her mother, her mother's boyfriend, her friends, and even her own appearance are strange and unsettling to her. More bizarre is the revelation that Kat has done something horribly wrong that has caused her not only to earn outcast status at school, but also to attract the ire and threats of the small group of girls whom Kat's mother claims are her friends. The story is told in the first-person and alternates Kat's narration with details from the past that she had been recording in a journal prior to the accident. Weatherly does a good job of differentiating between the Kat of the present and Kathy of the past. As readers, along with Kat, follow the story of her unknown past, an element of suspense creeps into the plot and readers are asked to consider the ultimate mystery: who any of us really are. While the use of amnesia as a plot device is reminiscent of many soap operas, readers are given cause to examine this disability a bit further and consider it, as Kat's grandmother urges her to do, something of a gift. "'But think about it,' Nana says, 'you're seeing life in a way few people ever get to—completely unencumbered by all the baggage we normally carry. New, fresh; like you've only just been born.'"—Amy S. Pattee, Simmons College, Boston
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About this edition

• Publisher: Corgi Childrens
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 055255197X
• ISBN 13: 9780552551977
• Binding: Paperback