Elsewhere -- Gabrielle Zevin, Paperback

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.

Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Publisher: Square Fish
Published: 05/15/2007
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780312367466
Age Range: 12-18

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.3
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 102017 / Elsewhere

About the Author

Gabrielle Zevin is the author of award-winning books for young adults including Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, and books for adults including The Hole We're In and Margarettown. She was also the screenwriter for Conversations with Other Women, which received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Of her writing, The New York Times Book Review said, Zevin's touch is marvelously light even as she considers profundities. A dog lover and Harvard graduate, she lives in New York City.