Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

                           
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin is about Elizabeth "Liz" Hall, a normal nearly sixteen year old who forgot to look where she was going when crossing a street. You'd think you would have known when you were dead. But to Liz, she's in a dream. Waking up on a boat called the SS Nile and finding a girl called Thandi which you don't know sounds like a dream, right? And even after seeing all these old people roaming the boat, Liz still seems to find everything as a long dream. Until she goes to the Observation Decks.

Her funeral is taking place, Elizabeth is disappointed that her Best Friend isn't there, and is annoyed to find her teachers using her funeral as a lesson to teach everyone about looking before crossing the road.

Liz is depressed, even though she gets to meet Curtis Jest, main singer of her fave band, Machine, she finally meets her Grandmother (who magically seems a lot younger than any normal Grandmother) and makes lots of new friends. She spends most of her time mourning for Earth.

In Elsewhere, everyone lives backwards, Liz will never turn sixteen, she'll be fourteen much sooner. She'll become a baby again, and then she'll be re-born. This makes Liz even more depressed, she'll never get her driving license, she'll never get married and perhaps never fall in love.

But life changes direction when she breaks the Elsewhere law. She meets someone. Who in reality, is much older than her, but Liz soon finds herself head over heals in love.

Then someone from Earth arrives. And ruins everything.

I read this book in one day, and I loved it! I would recommend it to anyone. It's really sad, but heart-warming at the same time.

In this book, Liz does everything from contacting her brother to talking to dogs to being reborn. You'll always want to know what happens next, and you'll probably cry at least somewhere in this book.

Enjoy this book!
Rebecca