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Elsewhere — Content Guide for Parents

By Gabrielle ZevinSquare FishISBN 9780312367466304 pages
Elsewhere

Found in this book

  • ViolenceBrief
  • ReligionBriefOther or made-up faith
  • ProfanitySupporting
  • Sexual contentBrief

Not found

  • Scary content
  • Race & culture
  • Climate
  • Gender roles
  • Gender & orientation

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Religion

PRESENT

Contains references to prayer and church attendance. A minister character plays a supporting role in two chapters.

About this book

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.

Frequently asked questions

  • Is Elsewhere appropriate for a 7-year-old?

    Another character, Thandi, says she was shot in the head and has a wound from it, and Liz's death is a hit-and-run. The afterlife of Elsewhere is invented, with reincarnation as babies, and one reviewer quotes a passing line about God; no real religious practice is described.

  • Does Elsewhere have violence?

    Found (Brief): Another character, Thandi, says she was shot in the head and has a wound from it, and Liz's death is a hit-and-run.

  • Does Elsewhere have scary content?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does Elsewhere have religion?

    Found (Brief, Other or made-up faith): The afterlife of Elsewhere is invented, with reincarnation as babies, and one reviewer quotes a passing line about God; no real religious practice is described.

  • Does Elsewhere have race & culture?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does Elsewhere have profanity?

    Found (Supporting): The text has mild swearing like 'hell', and a content guide describes at least one instance of nearly every swear word.

  • Does Elsewhere have climate?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does Elsewhere have sexual content?

    Found (Brief): A reader guide notes thoughts of sex and an observation of sex, and a reviewer mentions references to sexuality alongside the romance.

  • Does Elsewhere have gender roles?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does Elsewhere have gender & orientation?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

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