BOOK: The Lovely bones by Sebold

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@TELLURIAN.NET>]

Seabold, Alice._ The lovely bones._Little Brown, 2002 [0-316-
66634-3]
Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon tells this story from heaven.  It is
both a disturbing and hopeful discussion of life-after-death.  We find
out about her murder and the long process of trying to track down
the murderer.  The reader learns of the anguish of a family having to
deal with the long-term, unsolved mystery of their child's death.
This 328 page book is very powerful and I would not recommend it
for students below a mature 7th grade.  Susie's rape and murder
along with other murders are described with enough detail to be
disturbing but the bulk of the book dealing with the after life is very
uplifting.    With these cautions, I must say this is am important
book.

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Frederick Muller
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