I Know A Book That's Rife With Vocabulary References...

Sorry, it's just that we have to get references for our vocabulary words in English, where we find the words used in real life, and I got like five from this book. Oh yeah, the book: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin. She also wrote one of my favorite books, Elsewhere and she's a really good writer. I'm so glad I was able to find this book at the library.
Anyway, the book's about this girl who wakes up in the hospital and has amnesia. No, not total amnesia, but she can't remember anything from sixth grade to the present, which is her junior year. So she wakes up and doesn't know all her new friends, why she's not on speaking terms with her mother, that her parents got divorced and now she has a half-sister (it's like, WHEN IN THE HECK DID THAT HAPPEN???) or that she has a jock boyfriend named Ace and that they met through tennis.
She also doesn't remember her best friend Will, or why he calls her Chief. So it's no surprise he's always so ticked with her.
The freaky part of the book comes when she gets her brain back. Sure, she can speak French fluently again, but she also remembers everything that went down between her and Ace, and more importantly, her and Will.
I love Gabrielle Zevin's books (like this one) because hse comes up with such implausible scenarios that would be extremely difficult to work your way through and then she throws in these life-like characters that have all the same problems we do and even more working through their own unique problems.
Also, this book was good because normally when there's three main guys vying for a girl's attention she dates one, dumps him, falls in love with the other one, and number three just kind of diappears. In this book, she gets around to all three and still the story continues.