Synopsis
Ever since Rosa’s nerve disease rendered her quadriplegic, she’s depended on her handsome, confident older brother to be her rock and her mirror. But when a doctor from Boston chooses her to be a candidate for an experimental brain transplant, she and her family move from London in search of a miracle. Sylvia—a girl from a small town in Massachusetts—is brain dead, and her parents have agreed to donate her body to give Rosa a new life. But when Rosa wakes from surgery, she can’t help but wonder, with increasing obsession, who Sylvia was and what her life was like. Her fascination with her new body and her desire to understand Sylvia prompt a road trip based on self-discovery... and a surprising new romance. But will Rosa be able to solve the dilemma of her identity?
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About the Author
Emma Young is an award-winning science/medicine journalist and author. Her work has been carried by CNN, the Week, and various newspapers and websites. Her books include the critically acclaimed middle-grade Storm series, as well as adult popular-science nonfiction. She lives in the United Kingdom with her husband and two children.
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Gr 10 Up—Rosa is the first recipient of a full-body transplant: her brain in another girl's body. And while she's recovering, she can't help but wonder about her donor Sylvia This book's premise centers around the problematic "Miracle Cure" trope, in which a person with a disability is miraculously healed. Readers see very little of Rosa before her transplant (is the life of a quadriplegic teenager uninteresting?), and her physical recovery is similarly given short shrift in the text. While the psychological exploration of mind/body dualism proposed by the narrative could have been intriguing, instead, Rosa goes on a totally predictable road trip with a cute boy. Because of the lack of exploration of the life of a person with severe mobility impairment, the explicit disdain for ideas of medical ethics, and the clichéd YA romance, this is a book to pass on. VERDICT This title doesn't rise above its problematic premise, exploring clichéd romance instead of the depths of the world it proposes.—L. Lee Butler, Hart Middle School, Washington, DC
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