Author: Garielle Zevin
Year Published: 2005
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN#:
Pages: 275
Media Type: Book
Classification : Fiction
Subjects: Death, Future life
Reader's Annotation:
Fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is looking forward to earning her driver's license, graduating high school, and attending college. However, on the way to help her best friend shop for a prom dress, Liz is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Liz awakens on a cruise ship bound for the afterlife- a place called "Elsewhere".
Plot Summary:
Liz is a victim of a hit-and-run driver. Unfortunately, she passes away. When she wakes up she is in a place that she can only be dreaming about. The place is called Elsewhere. Everything there is kind of like Earth, but at the same time not like it at all. People on Elsewhere get younger instead of older. However, it’s still like Earth in the sense that you have friends, family, and a job. Betty is Liz’s grandmother whom she never met until now. Liz meets other people who became her great friends. Liz may have thought at the beginning of her arrival to Elsewhere that she’d never get used to this new “life” but as time goes on, she learns to loves it.
Plot Summary:
Liz is a victim of a hit-and-run driver. Unfortunately, she passes away. When she wakes up she is in a place that she can only be dreaming about. The place is called Elsewhere. Everything there is kind of like Earth, but at the same time not like it at all. People on Elsewhere get younger instead of older. However, it’s still like Earth in the sense that you have friends, family, and a job. Betty is Liz’s grandmother whom she never met until now. Liz meets other people who became her great friends. Liz may have thought at the beginning of her arrival to Elsewhere that she’d never get used to this new “life” but as time goes on, she learns to loves it.
Interest Level:9-12
Author Website:http://www.memoirsofa.com/
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