Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
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“My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973 … It was still back when people believed things like that didn’t happen…My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father once talked to him about fertilizer.”
Susie’s opening words in the book Lovely Bones will instantly grab you, pulling you into the life of usie Salmon beyond the grave as she watches her family struggle with her disappearance; as her life leaves her body in the cornfield, brushing past her friend Ruth; as she sits with her father each evening, alone in his study; as she watches her friends grow and continue their lives over the next seven years; and as she tries to communicate the events of her tragic abduction and death to those trying to piece together the evidence that will allow vengeance on her slayer. Even though you know the circumstances of Susie’s death from the first chapter, you will not quit turning pages until clues unravel the mystery of her murder, revealing the identity of the killer to her friends, family and community. Lovely Bones will make you aware that things like Susie’s murder do happen and that today one must always be cautious, not of just strangers, but of people we know."
Lovely Bones is a South Carolina Young Adult Nominee for 2004-2005. (Rebecca Elswick, Rebelswick@Yahoo.com, English I teacher -- Mid-Carolina High School, Prosperity, SC)
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Susie’s opening words in the book Lovely Bones will instantly grab you, pulling you into the life of usie Salmon beyond the grave as she watches her family struggle with her disappearance; as her life leaves her body in the cornfield, brushing past her friend Ruth; as she sits with her father each evening, alone in his study; as she watches her friends grow and continue their lives over the next seven years; and as she tries to communicate the events of her tragic abduction and death to those trying to piece together the evidence that will allow vengeance on her slayer. Even though you know the circumstances of Susie’s death from the first chapter, you will not quit turning pages until clues unravel the mystery of her murder, revealing the identity of the killer to her friends, family and community. Lovely Bones will make you aware that things like Susie’s murder do happen and that today one must always be cautious, not of just strangers, but of people we know."
Lovely Bones is a South Carolina Young Adult Nominee for 2004-2005. (Rebecca Elswick, Rebelswick@Yahoo.com, English I teacher -- Mid-Carolina High School, Prosperity, SC)
SUBJECTS:
Family life -- Fiction.
Homicide -- Fiction.
Girls -- Fiction.
Teenagers -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Source: http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/sebold_lovely.htm
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