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Fox Forever

#3 in series

by Mary E. Pearson
Matthew Brown
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With Fox Forever, Mary E. Pearson brings the story she began in The Adoration of Jenna Fox and continued in The Fox Inheritance to a breathtaking conclusion as Locke discovers that being truly human requires much more than flesh and blood.
Locke Jenkins has some catching up to do. After spending 260 years as a disembodied mind in a little black box, he has a perfect new body. But before he can move on with his unexpected new life, he'll have to return the Favor he accepted from the shadowy resistance group known as the Network.
Locke must infiltrate the home of a government official by gaining the trust of his daughter, seventeen-year-old Raine, and he soon finds himself pulled deep into the world of the resistance—and into Raine's life.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Jenna Fox Chronicles

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    March 19, 2013

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781427215185
      • File size: 273180 KB
      • Duration: 09:29:07

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 740
    • Text Difficulty: 3-4

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from April 29, 2013
      Pearson completes her Jenna Fox trilogy with this gripping and bittersweet volume. Locke Jenkins, whose consciousness was stored for 260 years until illegal technological advances allowed his body to be rebuilt (and enhanced), returns to his hometown of Boston. He's left Jenna, once the love of his life, in California, taking only her urgent wish that he embrace this second chance at life. First, Locke must repay the Network, a shadowy resistance group, for engineering his escape from earlier dire circumstances. The favor they ask greatly compromises his ethics: Locke must find out where the government is hiding an imprisoned rebel leader by ingratiating himself with Raine, the beautiful and conflicted daughter of a regime official. The city Locke arrives in doesn't resemble the Boston where he grew up, but there's less futuristic world-building in this installment than in The Fox Inheritance. What remains consistent is Pearson's seamless blending of speculative science with well-plotted action, as well as her ability to create introspective characters who ask challenging questions about what it means to be both human and humane. Ages 12 – up. Agent: Rosemary Stimola, Stimola Literary Studio.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      In a futuristic Boston, bioengineered teenager Locke Jenkins accepts a secret rescue mission from The Network, an underground group that fights government injustice. To succeed, he must befriend Raine, a government official's daughter--but their friendship quickly turns to love. Locke hides his mission from Raine as he wrests a political prisoner from her father's keeping. While narrator Matthew Brown's voice is an appropriate match for Locke, his phrasing is not always smooth. Further, his easygoing pace combined with the story's ruminative quality makes for an audio that moves slowly. A more intense narration might have compensated for the cerebral nature of the story. This audiobook may elicit interest from listeners familiar with the first two books in the trilogy. C.A. (c) AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine
    • School Library Journal

      July 1, 2013

      Gr 9 Up-In the thrilling and brilliant conclusion (Holt, 2013) to Pearson's Jenna Fox Chronicles, Locke Jenkins has finally been able to escape the malicious Dr. Gatsbro with the aide of the Network. He heads for Boston to repay the Favor owed for their assistance. Locke wants nothing more than to complete his task so that he can return to Jenna Fox in California and have the chance to be with the girl that he's loved for almost 300 years. What Locke finds in Boston, though, causes him to question his feelings and his ideals. Locke's task is to retrieve the leader of the Resistance, Karden, a man thought to have been dead for the last 16 years. To do so, Locke must win over the teenage daughter of the government official holding Karden captive. Drawn deep into the struggle between the corrupt government and the Network, Locke finds himself defining who he wants to be in the hundreds of years he may have left to live, and who he believes should be beside him as he goes into the future. Matthew Brown's even tones and deliberate pacing brilliantly capture Locke as he moves through Pearson's explorations into morality, societal relationships, government control, and what truly defines humanity. The final events of the book not only give listeners the end of Locke's story, but also bring an emotionally satisfying conclusion to Jenna's tale. For all library collections circulating the first two titles.-Jessica Miller, West Springfield Public Library, MA

      Copyright 2013 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:740
  • Text Difficulty:3-4

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