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Elsewhere

Elsewhere

Zevin, Gabrielle

Hardcover

FamilyGeneral Juvenile Fiction

ISBN10: 0374320918
ISBN13: 9780374320911
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages: 275
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.98 Width: 5.92 Depth: 8.32
Language: English
Awards: California Young Reader Medal, Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers, Heartland Award, Iowa Teen Award, Isinglass Teen Read Award, Nutmeg Book Award, Quill Awards, South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award, Tayshas Reading, Virginia Readers Choice Award, Volunteer State Book Awards
Is it possible to grow up while getting younger?
Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick or any older. Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewhere's museums. Need to talk to someone about your problems? Stop by Marilyn Monroe's psychiatric practice. Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. She wants to get her driver's license. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. And now that she's dead, Liz is being forced to live a life she doesn't want with a grandmother she has only just met. And it is not going well. How can Liz let go of the only life she has ever known and embrace a new one? Is it possible that a life lived in reverse is no different from a life lived forward? This moving, often funny book about grief, death, and loss will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned. Elsewhere is a 2006 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

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