num_pages: 150
description: Once, Jane was the big sister, teaching Lily to play make believe and protecting her from thunderstorms. But then Lily grew up. She started making friends and dating boys, while Jane wanted to go on playing make believe forever. For Jane, the line between fantasy and reality had always blurred, whereas Lily lived for a future bright with expectation and change. Inevitably, the sisters found a gulf widening between them-Lily reveling in her newfound love, while Jane could only watch, frustrated, from the sidelines. How had her little sister managed to eclipse her?Then tragedy struck. But the story was not over. . . .Adele Griffin has crafted a spellbinding book, told in the alternating voices of two very different sisters dwelling on opposite sides of life and death, who are bravely trying to overcome the void and bring light to each other.
language: English
title: Where I Want to Be
titlecomplete: Where I Want to Be
genres: Fiction, Family, Death, Mental Health, Teen, Young Adult, Realistic Fiction, Contemporary, Mental Illness, Fantasy
ratings_count: 569
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Young People's Literature
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers