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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
This is the tale of family, memory, love, and living told by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven. Through the voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and builds out of her family's grief a hopeful and joyful story.
Author
Series
Lan xiao shuo volume 81
Publisher
Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2003
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Brutally raped and murdered by a deceptively mild-mannered neighbor, Susie begins with a compelling description of her death. During the next ten years, she watches over her family and friends as they struggle to cope with her murder. She observes their disintegrating lives with compassion and occasionally attempts, sometimes successfully, to communicate her love to them. Although the lives of all who knew her well are shaped by her tragic death,...
4) Lucky
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2002, ©1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Enormously visceral, emotionally gripping, and imbued with the belief that justice is possible even after the most horrific of crimes, Alice Sebold's compelling memoir of her rape at the age of eighteen is a story that takes hold of you and won't let go. Sebold fulfills a promise that she made to herself in the very tunnel where she was raped: someday she would write a book about her experience. With this book, she delivers on that promise with mordant...
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