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  • I liked Susie's perspective on death. She seemed to have a sense of humor about the whole situation. The thing that kept me turning the page--finding out if her family finds out who murdered her. We actually did this one for the high school book club I mediate in March 2005

    

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  • Hard to put down, but not for the squeamish!

    

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  • One of the best books I've ever read. It's definitely my favorite.

    

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  • The Lovely Bones really touched my heart and soul. I might have even shed a tear with this book. Great read!

    

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  • Written in a different style, the dead victim is actually speaking... Ingenious, but left me somewhat uninterested

    

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When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. This was before milk carton photos and public service announcements, she tells us; back in 1973, when Susie mysteriously disappeared, people still believed these things didnt happen. In the sweet, untroubled voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death, and her own adjustment to the strange new place she finds herself. (It looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swingset.) With love, longing, and a growing understanding, Susie watches her family as they cope with their griefher father embarks on a search for the killer, her sister undertakes a feat of amazing daring, her little brother builds a fort in her honorand begin the difficult process of healing. In the hands of a brilliant new novelist, and through the eyes of her winning young heroine, this story of seemingly unbearable tragedy is transformed into a suspenseful, touching, even funny novel about family, memory, love, heaven, and living.

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