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Elsewhere
Contributor(s): Zevin, Gabrielle (Author)

ISBN: 0312367465 ISBN-13: 9780312367466
Publisher: Square Fish

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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2007
Annotation: Elsewhere is where 15-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.

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Death, Grief, Bereavement
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - New Experience

Dewey: FIC

Age Level: 12-18

Grade Level: 7-13

Lexile Measure: 720(Not Available)

Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" L (0.60 lbs) 304 pages

Themes:
- Topical - Death/Dying

Features: Ikids, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 102017
Reading Level: 4.3 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 9.0

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:

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 by Gabrielle Zevin is a 2006 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Contributor Bio(s): Zevin, Gabrielle: - Gabrielle Zevin is the author of many popular books for teens, including Elsewhere, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, and In the Age of Love and Chocolate, the final novel in the Birthright trilogy. Her novels for adults are Margarettown, The Hole We're In, and the forthcoming The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry. She was also the screenwriter for Conversations with Other Women, for which she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Zevin is a graduate of Harvard University. After many years on Manhattan's Upper West Side, she recently moved to Silver Lake, Los Angeles.

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