num_pages: 328
description: Susie Salmon looks down from a heaven which looks a lot like her school playground. There are counsellors to help newcomers adjust, and friends to room with. Everything she wants appears as soon as she thinks of it - except the thing she wants most: to be back with the people she loved on Earth.
language: English
title: The Lovely Bones
titlecomplete: The Lovely Bones
characters: Buckley Salmon, Abigail Salmon, Jack Salmon, George Harvey, Clarissa, Susie Salmon, Lindsey Salmon, Holly
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Young Adult, Adult, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Fantasy, Crime
ratings_count: 2299167
places: The United States of America, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Bram Stoker Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: British Book Award
category: Best Read of the Year, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Book Sense Book of the Year Award
category: Adult Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: California Book Award
category: First Fiction (Silver), awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: South Carolina Book Award
category: Young Adult Book Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Iowa High School Book Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Puddly Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Lincoln Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Gateway Readers Award
publisher: Picador