description: The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened.
language: English
title: The Lovely Bones
titlecomplete: The Lovely Bones
characters: Susie Salmon, George Harvey, Holly, Jack Salmon, Buckley Salmon, Clarissa, Abigail Salmon, Lindsey Salmon
genres: Thriller, Adult Fiction, Crime, Young Adult, Fantasy, Adult, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2298878
places: The United States of America, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 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: Demco Media