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Everlost
by Neal Shusterman
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ISBN13: 9780689872372 |
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Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident...
...but their souls don't exactly get where they're supposed to get either. Instead, they're caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things and places that no onger exist. It's a magical, yet dangerous place where bands of lost children run wild and anyone who stands in the same place too long sinks to the center of the Earth.
When they find Mary, the self-proclaimed queen of lost kids, Nick feels like he he's found a home, but allie isn't satisfied spending eternity between worlds. Against all warnings, Allie begins learning the "Criminal Art" of haunting, and ventures into dangerous territory, where a monster called the McGill threatens all the souls of Everlost.
In this imaginative novel, Neal Shusterman explores questions of life, death, and what just might lie in between.
Review:
"Shusterman's (Full Tilt) enigmatic novel imagines a purgatory where only children go, with its own vocabulary and body of literature plus a monster named the McGill. After a car accident, teens Allie and Nick awaken 272 days later in Everlost. 'It took nine months to get you born, so doesn't it figure it would take nine months to get you dead?' says the boy who discovers them, a nameless, lonely child they call Lief (an 'Afterlight' who is 100 years old). In Everlost only the young exist, because adults 'never get lost on the way to the light.' The World Trade Center is there, too, home to Mary Hightower, a 15-year-old shaman of sorts and author of countless books (e.g., You're Dead — So Now What?). Shusterman uses excerpts from Mary's books (with an increasing sense of menace) to segue from one chapter to the next. Allie's flight from Mary's kingdom of 'perfect routines,' and her attempt to rescue Nick and Lief from a six-year-old spectral gangster lead her into a conflict with the monstrous McGill (with 'sharp, three-fingered talons for hands,... its mismatched eyes wandered of its own accord'). Along the way, Allie learns the art of 'skinjacking' (inhabiting the living), and Nick discovers a thing or two about the mechanics of Everlost, much to Mary's dismay. Shusterman's landscapes seem both familiar and ghostly, just the right mix for this fascinating limbo land that readers can only hope will provide the setting for more books to come. Ages 12-up." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
Review:
"Marvelously inventive...and magically beautiful."
— Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game
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penguinluver16, May 19, 2008 (view all comments by penguinluver16)
This book was awesome! I loved it because you could never stop reading. The book was just so exciting.
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greatkris92, April 9, 2008 (view all comments by greatkris92)
I loved this book i could not put it down. This is the first book i have read from Neal Shusterman and i can not wait to read another one and i think this book would make a great movie as well. I have read many books lately and i would have to say by far this one of the best 5\5. tell next time. - kris -
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offrocket, May 29, 2007 (view all comments by offrocket)
I think Everlost is a great book for a wild opinion on what Neal Shusterman thinks of when asked of the afterlife.
This book has a great ending but of coarse you will have to read the book to find out! This book is a little different from other books he's writin but you'll love this one none the less.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780689872372
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
- Subject:
- Action & Adventure
- Subject:
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
- Subject:
- Social Issues - Death & Dying
- Copyright:
- 2006
- Publication Date:
- August 2006
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Grade Level:
- Young adult
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 313
- Dimensions:
- 8.25 x 5.5 in
- Age Level:
- 12-17
