STUCK BEtween here and there
The Afterlife. What happens when you aren't here, but you aren't really there either? Sometimes, you can't get there until you solve your problems here. Other times, you have the choice to stay or go.
Sometimes, in between is just where you want to be.
Click on the red author name and book image for links to interviews, excerpts or book trailers about these books and authors.
Sometimes, in between is just where you want to be.
Click on the red author name and book image for links to interviews, excerpts or book trailers about these books and authors.
Lovely bones
by Alice Sebold
A gruesome murder recounted by the victim as she watches from "above". Susie Salmon watches as her family and friends struggle to cope with the reality of her death.
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If i stayby Gayle Forman
17-year-old Mia has no memory of the accident, but what she does know is that she has survived, but isn't quite sure if she should stay without or family or leave everything else behind to join them on the other side.
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the afterlife
by Gary Soto
Chuy's life finally gets interesting - after he is stabbed in the bathroom of Club Estrella. At that point, Chuy finally sees that people love him, he faces the consequences of his actions, finds himself to be more compassionate and brave than he thought and maybe even stumbles on true love.
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a certain slant of light
by Laura Whitcomb
After benignly haunting a series of people for 130 years, Helen meets a teenage boy who can see her and together they unlock the mysteries of their pasts. |
Elsewhere
by Gabrielle Zevin
After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike earth, where she must adjust her new status and figure out how to "live". Liz will now age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again, but that's not what she wants. She wants to go forward. 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? |
everlost
When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls, where although Nick is satisfied, Allie will stop at nothing, even skyjacking, to break free.
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before I fall
Samantha has it all - looks, popularity, a boyfriend and more. But instead of having the best day of her life, she has her last. Until she has to wake up and live it again 7 more times. 7 days to untangle the mystery of her death and discover the true value of everything she is in danger of losing.
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devine intervention
by Martha Brockenbrough
CHECK SWAN TO SEE IF THIS IS AVAILABLE AT A LIBRARY NEAR YOU OR ASK AT THE DESK Jerome Hancock is Heidi Devine's guardian angel. Sort of. He's more of an angel trainee, and he's just about to get kicked out for having too many absences and for violating too many rules.
When the unthinkable happens, these two lost souls must figure out where they went wrong and whether they can make things right before Heidi's time is up and her soul is lost forever. |
Shadowland: the mediator
by Meg Cabot
Sixteen-year-old Susannah Simon, a liaison between the living and the dead, hopes to be able to live as a normal teenager after moving from New York to California with her mom and new stepfather, but on the first day of school she encounters the very hostile ghost of a girl who committed suicide over winter break and is out for revenge against her former boyfriend. |
the catastrophic history of you and me
by Jess Rothenberg
Just before her sixteenth birthday, Brie Eagan literally dies of a broken heart when her boyfriend tells her he does not love her, and she then must go through the five stages of grief, while watching her friends and family try to cope with her death, before her faith in love is restored and she can move on to the afterlife Listen to the songs that inspired the story.. |
