Elizabeth Marie Hall - Liz or Lizzie for short - was one day crossing a street on her bicycle. She forgot to look both ways, and a taxi sped out of nowhere and hit her. She has died, and this is the story of Liz's experience in the afterlife - in Elsewhere.
Elsewhere is a place where people age backwards from the age at which they died. Once they are a baby again, they are sent back to Earth to begin a new life, where they live, die, and return to Elsewhere, to begin the process again. This book tells of Liz's struggle to accept her death and to move on from the life she once knew.
Though it gets off to a slow start, Elsewhere is a thought-provoking, present-tense narrated novel that no science fiction fan will want to miss, though you don't have to love sci-fi in order to enjoy this story.

Living Dead Girls is such a depressing book, but so well written. A pedophile, Ray, kidnaps girls and turns him into his own baby dolls. He dresses them in frilly pink dresses, starves them to keep them small, and plays mind games with them until they behave they way he wants. Ray erases each girls original personality starting with their names and molds them into his own sick fantasy.
It is so believable how he manipulates the girls. I want other people to read this book so they can be warned how easily an adult could kidnap and warp a kid. I am miserable reading it though because the situation is so futile and I usually pref happier books. If you can cope with the saddness....you have to read Living Dead Girls.

"I, Samuel W. Westing, resident of Westing County in the fair state of Wisconsin in the great and glorious United States of America, being of sound mind and memory, do hereby declare this to be my last will and testament..."
With these words, the lives of sixteen people are changed forever. Samuel W. Westing's will tells them that one among them is responsible for his death, and they must work to find out who it is. They are put into pairs and each pair is given a set of clues...
This book is unlike anything - anything at all - that you've ever read. It's told by a skillful narrator, and contains multiple twists and turns. You are missing out on a great experience if you don't read The Westing Game. A sometimes funny, sometimes sad mystery, this Newbery-Medal winner is a one-of-a-kind book that I couldn't put down.

CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS! Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Ani for short, has always known that she, being the eldest of her siblings, is heir to the throne of the kingdom of Kildenree. But her many unusual abilities and gifts, the ability to speak to animals among them, causes her mother, the queen, to worry that the Kildenreans will not want Ani as their future queen. So, she sends Ani to be queen of the neighboring kingdom of Bayern, switching the inheritance of the throne to Ani's brother, Calib. Ani is sent off to Bayern to wed the prince, with an escort of royal guards, her maids, and her lady-in-waiting, Selia.
But suddenly, violence breaks out on the journey. Selia, it turns out, has been plotting to take Ani's place as Crown Princess of Bayern, and more than half the guards are on her side. Ani is forced to flee through the woods to escape Selia's guards. All except one of the guards who try to defend her are killed, and her horse, Falada, is taken by Selia and later killed as well. Ani takes shelter tending the king's geese, disguised as a Bayern girl. But when one of her friends finds out her secret, an uprising against Selia and her guards is planned...
Though it gets off to a slow start, The Goose Girl is an imaginative, clearly narrated tale of friendship, love and loyalty.