![]() ![]() Zevin, in her first novel for young people, bends the laws of physics and biology to create an intricately imagined world." - Publishers Weekly "A fun and thought-provoking page-turner. Readers from a broad range of beliefs will find this a quirky and touching exploration of the Great Beyond." - The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "Fascinating. Hopeful and engaging." - Kirkus Reviews "Funny and pensive, happy and heartbreaking. Will captivate teens ready for a thought-provoking read. I loved reading the story of Liz's life (death?)." - Carolyn Mackler, author of The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things and Vegan Virgin Valentine "An unusual premise and a thoughtful treatment make Zevin's first effort at writing for young adults a success. The concept is completely out there and yet the emotions are so weirdly realistic. No plot synopsis can convey what a rich, wise spell this book casts." - The New York Times Book Review " Elsewhere is a funny, fast-paced, and fascinating novel. Provides much to think about and discuss." - School Library Journal, Starred Review "Zevin's touch is marvelously light even as she considers profundities, easily moving among humor, wisdom and lyricism. Surely guides readers through the bumpy landscape of strongly delineated characters dealing with the most difficult issue that faces all of us. This inventive novel slices right to the bone of human yearning, offering up an indelible vision of life and death as equally rich sides of the same coin." - Booklist, Starred Review "With an intriguing and well-developed premise, thoughtful characterization, and refreshing style, Zevin's poignant novel rewards readers with a view of death that celebrates the rich complexities of being alive." - The Horn Book, Starred Review "Intriguing. * A Time 100 Best Books of All Time* "A work of powerful beauty. 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? Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin is a Time 100 Best Books of All Time. 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. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. Need to talk to someone about your problems? Stop by Marilyn Monroe's psychiatric practice. ![]() Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewhere's museums. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. Is it possible to grow up while getting younger? ![]() Fikry comes Gabrielle Zevin's Elsewhere, a moving, often funny young adult novel about grief, death, and loss that will stay with readers long after the last page is turned. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth.įrom the New York Times best-selling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied Life of A. A World Elsewhere is a stirring narrative of two hostages to history and a mother’s courageous fight to save her family.About the Book Elsewhere is where 15-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. With home and family in jeopardy, she and her six young children flee the advancing Russian army in an epic journey, back to the country she thought she’d left behind. Widowed, living in a country soon at war with her own, Aimée must fend for herself. In 1941, Heinrich volunteers for the Russian front and is killed by a sniper. But the harsh reality of post–World War I Germany is inescapable: a bleak economy and the rise of Hitler quash Heinrich’s diplomatic ambitions, and their struggling family farm north of Berlin drains Aimée’s modest fortune. While visiting Paris in 1927, her American mother, Aimée, raised in a wealthy Connecticut family, falls in love with a charming, sophisticated Baltic German baron, a penniless exile of the Russian revolution. The extraordinary love story of an American blueblood and a German aristocrat-and a riveting tale of survival in wartime Germany Sigrid MacRae never knew her father, until a trove of letters revealed not only him, but also the singular story of her parents’ intercontinental love affair. ![]() Download A World Elsewhere Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle ![]()
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