When one of two star-crossed lovers full of teen agnst run falls off of a cliff in the 1st chapter, readers of Keep Me In Mind by Jaime Reed will be anxiously ready to turn the next pages.  Alternating chapters between each, Ellia Dawson and Liam McPherson tell their side of the story in dealing with love, parents who want to keep them apart, and one other huge issue — amnesia.  Ellia’s fall causes her to lose her memory of her last year with Liam.  He claims he is her boyfriend, that they were in love, but then why are her parents so concerned with them not seeing each other?  Is it only because she is black and he is white?  This clever idea taken from the best of soap operas get a little old about half way into the book.  No doubt Liam will begin to flounder in his feelings and a chaotic choice at the school dance will put his efforts to get Ellia back into a tail spin. Reed’s writing is just as good as any, but the idea looses steam despite efforts to be mysterious.  This reader isn’t even sure why the “race card” is part of the story.  Keep Me In Mind will keep readers who stay committed to the end reading but other students may just leave it in their locker for months until the overdue notices pile up.  But with no sex, drugs or rock and roll, this can span into the middle school library, a rarity for young adult lit these days.