In this fascinating twist on the fantasy/coming-of-age novel, a young woman learns to make the most of her life after she's killed at age fifteen. Wanting nothing more than to get back to Earth, she meets a number of friends in the afterlife who help her accept death as a part of life, and that living is only a state of mind.
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Elsewhere - the place you go when you die.
Fifteen year old Lizzie Hall, almost sixteen, is riding her bike to the mall, when she's hit by a car and killed. She wakes up on a cruise ship, on her way to a new land. In Elsewhere, she meets her grandmother, who died before she was born. She meets her favorite rock star, dead of an overdose. She meets all kinds of people, living dead lives in a reversal of their living years on Earth.
All Liz wants is to go back to Earth, to go back to her life. She never learned to drive, never traveled, never fell in love. She spends her days with binoculars pointed at Earth, watching her family grieve, watching her friends live their lives. Lizzie will do anything to go home, but she's stuck Elsewhere.
Awards
Kirkus Reviews Editor's Choice
Booklist Editors' Choice
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
An ALA Notable Children's BookAn ALA Popular Paperback for Young Readers
An Amazon.com Top Ten Editor's Pick
...and many more
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