num_pages: 275
description: 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 is a 2006 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
language: English
title: Elsewhere
titlecomplete: Elsewhere
characters: Paco, Phyllis, Doris, Betty Bloom, Allie Reilly, Owen, Olivia Bloom Hall, Zooey Ann Brandon, Lucy, Alvy Hall, Thandiwe Washington, Owen Welles, Rowena Ghent, Beneatha, Paul Scott Spencer, Reginald Christopher Doral Monmount Harris the Third, Edward, Florence, Joe, Curtis Jest, Aldous Ghent, Captain Welles, Emily Reilly Welles, Esther, Arnold, Sadie, Mrs. Early, Amadou Bonamy, Josey Wu, Elizabeth Marie Hall, Myrna, Dr. Fujiyama, Arthur Hall, Pete, Jen, Dr. Frederick, Sarah Miles, Josh, Coco, Yetta Brown, Dolly, Shelly
genres: Audiobook, Death, Young Adult, Teen, Fantasy, Supernatural, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Paranormal
ratings_count: 58147
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Georgia Peach Book Award
category: Honor book, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Borders Original Voices Award
category: YA or Independent Reader, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Sakura Medal
category: High School Book, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Young Adult, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Lincoln Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Bronzener Lufti, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Ulmer Unke
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux