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Teen Scene

JULY 22, 2008
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
Liz Hall is 15 when her bicycle is hit by a hit-and-run driver. She wakes up on a ship crossing the River Nile unaware that she has died. A grandmother she has never met meets Liz when the boat arrives in Elsewhere, a world very similar to Earth. Here, the dead age backward from the day they died until they are babies again and sent back to Earth. Liz is very angry at the hit-and-run driver for ending her life before she has learned to drive, without the chance to go to prom and to graduate from high school. Now she won't have a chance at a life that includes boyfriends, husband or children. She spends a great deal of time at the observation decks where she can watch her friends and family on Earth, and devises a plan to let her family know who the driver was of the car that killed her. After her anger begins to subside, Liz slowly adjusts to her new life in Elsewhere accepting a position placing into new homes animals who have resently died and discovers that life can go on even when you're dead. This book will appeal to teens in grades 7 and up.


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