"the novel, adapted by Bryony Lavery and directed by Melly Still, made its world premiere at the Royal & Derngate, Northampton on 1 September 2018 before touring to Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, Northern Stage, Birmingham Repertory Theatre and New Wolsey Theatre. The Lovely Bones The Lovely Bones is a 2002 novel by American writer Alice Sebold. It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being raped and murdered, watches from her personal Heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on with their lives while she comes to terms with her own death. The novel received critical praise"
"and living in a cabin in the woods without electricity. She ultimately obtained an MFA from the University of California, Irvine in 1998. In New York, Sebold began writing the book that would become ""Lucky"", as a 10-page assignment for her class. In its first drafts, the book was a fictionalized version of her rape and its aftermath; while in graduate school, Sebold turned the book into a ""misery memoir."" The book's title came from a policeman who had told Sebold that she was lucky to be alive, since another young woman had been killed and dismembered in the same"
"Lucky (memoir) Lucky is a 1999 memoir by American novelist Alice Sebold, author of ""The Lovely Bones"". The memoir describes her experiences of being raped and how the experience shaped the rest of her life. In 1981, 17-year-old Alice Sebold was living in Syracuse, New York. Sebold was finishing her freshman year at Syracuse University when she was attacked, beaten, and raped while walking home through a park off campus in the early morning hours of May 8. She reported the crime to the police, who remarked that a young woman had once been murdered in the same location. Thus,"
"her beautiful island home, a remote fly-in hunting and fishing lodge. Waiting for her is bitter family dysfunction and the nightmare of her last childhood memory: the suicide of her mother. Soon, Jenibal finds herself burdened with selling off the family lodge, against the wishes of her family and friends. In a harrowing passage through guilt, loyalty, and devastating memories, Jenibel navigates an obstacle course of personal torment that pushes her psyche to the breaking point. What begins as a journey of forgiveness, devolves into a fatal nightmare and a struggle to maintain not just her sanity, but her life."
"The Almost Moon The Almost Moon is the third book and second novel by American writer Alice Sebold, author of her memoir, ""Lucky"" and ""The Lovely Bones."" It was released by Little, Brown and Company in the United States on October 16, 2007. Artist's model and divorcee, Helen Knightly spontaneously murders her mother, an agoraphobic now suffering from severe dementia, by suffocating her with a towel. But while her act is almost unconscious, it also seems like the fulfilment of a long-cherished, buried desire, since she spent a lifetime trying to win the love of a mother who had none"
"""Eye to Eye"", of the 1997 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel. Jack and his sister Ellen are suffering in the aftermath of their mother's death, which has caused their father to withdraw into himself. There is some unsolved mystery which Jack tries to explore. To him, the mystery has something to do with the ""greylands"", a world on the other side of his mirror. Much of the action takes place in these greylands, where Jack meets a strange girl and discovers that his soul is at risk. The adventure is described from Jack's point of view, and within the"
"down by ""A"" from the top of a bell tower and his body goes missing, the girls are forced to keep their friendship a secret and to maintain therapy sessions with to discuss about Alison's absence in their lives, a fact that their parents believe to be the reason why the girls are behaving strangely. Days after, through Spencer's sister , the girls find Thomas' dead body, accompanied by a suicide letter in which he admits that he killed Alison. Following, the girls continue to be threatened by ""A."" is arrested for Alison's murder after Jenna Marshall hands the Rosewood"
"to a neglectful mother and a broken home. Now Amanda is 16 — and gone again. A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing. Amanda's aunt is once again knocking at Patrick Kenzie's door, fearing the worst for the little girl who has blossomed into a striking, bright young teenager who hasn't been seen in two weeks. Haunted by the past, Kenzie and Gennaro revisit the case that troubled them the most, following a 12-year trail of secrets and lies down the darkest alleys of Boston's gritty, blue-collar streets. Assuring themselves that this time will"
"town with his friends and family, a much lighter closing than 1984. Described in the ""New York Times Book Review"" as a ""rich parable"", this novel questions the line that must be drawn when freedom is more important than safety. After (novel) After is a young adult novel written by Francine Prose. It was first published in 2003, and the nearby school shooting is reminiscent of the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. After a school shooting 50 miles away, the new grief and crisis counselor (Dr. Willner) attempts to control the students' lives, using the recent tragedy as an"
"death of her mother. The book then follows August through her teenage years. August shares friendships with three other Brooklynites, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi, as they walk through the neighborhoods and dream optimistically of the future, and revealing what it held in store for them. August and her friends also face dangers on the streets, and family strife of various types. The book received many reviews. To ""The Washington Post"", it is a ""short but complex story that arises from simmering grief. It lulls across the pages like a mournful whisper."" ""Publishers Weekly"" writes that it is a ""a vivid"
"who has died by suicide following the accusation that she slept with a high school quarterback. It was published in 2016 by Kensington and a nominee for the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award in the category Young Adult Contemporary in 2016. Her second thriller, ""Girl on the Verge"", tells the story of a second-generation immigrant Thai-American teen whose family takes in a white girl who turns her life upside down It was published in 2017 by Kensington. Her third standalone novel, ""Malice"", about a girl who finds out that a student in her school will create a virus that will"
"Green Angel Green Angel is a 2003 post-apocalyptic young adult novel written by Alice Hoffman. It tells the story of a girl's isolation, suffering and gradual recovery after her family dies in a catastrophic fire. It has elements of magic realism and dystopian fiction. It was followed by a sequel, ""Green Witch"", in 2010, and a compilation of both novels, which was then followed by ""Green Heart, in 2012"" . Green is a quiet and shy 15-year-old girl. She lives with her mother, father, and beautiful younger sister Aurora, in a house on the city's green outskirts. While her sister"
"recent book is ""Zenith"", the sequel to ""Exodus"". Both of these books were written for young adults. Kerrie feels trapped. She can't spend another day in her chaotic mother's house. Then Kerrie finds an escape. On the rooftop of a nearby tower block live two castaway teenagers, Mauve and Skip. As Kerrie starts to share their sky-high home, she relishes her new-found freedom. And when a freak fire destroys their towerblock, Kerrie decides to leave the city with Mauve and Skip. She thinks that she can leave her problems behind in Glasgow – but what will happen when Kerrie stops"
"novel, a Norristown couple finds Susie's charm bracelet but don't realize its significance, and Susie closes the story by wishing the reader ""a long and happy life"". Critics in the US were generally positive; many noted that the story had more promise than the idea of a brutally murdered teenage girl going to heaven, and following her family and friends as they get on with their lives would have suggested. ""This is a high-wire act for a first novelist, and Alice Sebold maintains almost perfect balance"", wrote Katherine Bouton in ""The New York Times Book Review"". Ali Smith of ""The"
"be free of me...Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly."" Ketchup Clouds Ketchup Clouds is a 2012 teen novel by Annabel Pitcher. It tells the story of a girl about the age of 15 who has a dark secret she is afraid to confess to anyone but her pen pal, a murderer on Death Row. It won the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize. The book revolves around a 15-year-old girl who, to keep her identity, calls herself Zoe, and claims to live on 1 Fiction Road, somewhere near Bath, England. The story is told in written letters to a murderer on"
"mother was especially tortuous, became closest to Tomas, and now blames herself for the series of events that resulted in Tomas' death, the retribution killing of ten villagers by the Gestapo and Mirabelle's flight from the family home. Now, 56 years later, Framboise relives these traumatic events and tries to understand how they have shaped her life and relationships. Eventually, as the truth emerges, she learns how to face down the bullies who threaten her, as well as to forgive herself and her mother, to give herself permission to love, to reconnect with her two estranged daughters and to finally"
"Reviews, Amazon.com, and the American Library Association Notable Children's Book list among others. It has also won several awards abroad. In Germany, it was awarded the Lufti (Bronze) and the Ulmer Unke, and in the United Kingdom it won the Sheffield Children's Book Prize for Longer Novels and the Stockport Schools' Book Award. It was also longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Elsewhere (Zevin novel) Elsewhere is a 2005 young adult, speculative novel by Gabrielle Zevin. Fifteen-year-old Liz is hit and killed by a taxi. When she wakes up, she finds herself in the cabin of a ship named the SS"
"the murder of one daughter, her own ""best self"", and the estrangement of the surviving daughter from the black community, both in an attempt to salvage her ""fantasy of the future"", her children, from a life in slavery. However, Sethe fails to recognize her daughter Denver's need for interaction with this community in order to enter into womanhood. Denver finally succeeds at the end of the novel in establishing her own self and embarking on her individuation with the help of Beloved. Contrary to Denver, Sethe only becomes individuated after Beloved's exorcism, at which point Sethe can fully accept the"
"Sebald, is an odyssey of a kindertransport boy brought up in a Welsh manse who later traces his origins to Prague and then goes back there. He finds someone who knew his mother, and he retraces his journey by train. ""Sisterland"", a young adult novel by Linda Newbery, concerns a Kindertransport child, Sarah Reubens, who is now a grandmother; sixteen-year-old Hilly uncovers the secret her grandmother has kept hidden for years. This novel was shortlisted for the 2003 Carnegie Medal. ""My Family for the War"", a young adult novel by Anne C. Voorhoeve, recounts the story of Franziska Mangold, a"
"After (novel) After is a young adult novel written by Francine Prose. It was first published in 2003, and the nearby school shooting is reminiscent of the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. After a school shooting 50 miles away, the new grief and crisis counselor (Dr. Willner) attempts to control the students' lives, using the recent tragedy as an excuse for increasingly restricting their lives. The school gradually is controlled by the grip of the administration, and students who do not comply with the new rules disappear, never to be seen again. Its plot is reminiscent of ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"""
"of a poisoned childhood, a contamination that threatens to spread through generations. Alice is a photographer, struggling to keep her head above water. She has arranged her life like one of her photographs: careful, ordered, stark. The small figure in the foreground is her daughter, Holly. But under the surface, things are not nearly as smooth as Alice likes to think they are. She is haunted by a dream from her childhood that threatens to rise up and engulf her, destroying both Holly and herself. Ultimately she realises that she must enter the dream and learn to navigate its dangerous"
"who stays in Rosewood. Five years later, as the girls have each pursued their own path and have started adjusting to a life without 'A', they are once again called back to Rosewood when Alison asks for their help for her sister Charlotte to be released from the psychiatric hospital. While the girls agree to help, Aria is the only who tells the brutally honest truth: she is still scared of Charlotte and doesn't want her released. Eventually, she is, only for her to be murdered the same night and then thrown from the church's bell tower. At her funeral,"
"by the arm. Alice collects her remaining life in her hollow body and shouts for Lucy to run. Ray gets so angry that he tries to strangle Alice. Jake shoots Ray dead, and inadvertently wounds Alice. As she lays dying, Alice tells Lucy that her name is Kyla Davis, and that she lives on 623 Daisy Lane. She then asks Lucy to take her home. Alice's final thought before she dies is ""I am free."" Living Dead Girl (novel) Living Dead Girl is a young adult novel written by Elizabeth Scott. The story follows a girl called ""Alice"" who has"
"four young-adult novels from 1993 to 2000. Her novels for middle-grade readers (2004 and 2007) combine humour, investigation and a sense of nostalgia. In the YA novels, ""She explores the darker sides of growing up: dealing with parent's abandonment through death in ""Tell Me Everything"", abuse by a stepparent in ""What Jamie Saw"", sibling incest in ""Bee and Jacky"" and a political-inspired tragedy in ""Many Stones""."" ""Many Stones"" was inspired by the murder of Amy Biehl. ""What Jamie Saw"" (1995) was Newbery Medal honor book and a National Book Award for Young People's Literature finalist. ""Many Stones"" (2000) was a"
"window, a bloody footprint on the stairs and, most devastating of all, the horrifying sight of her teenage daughter lying dead on the landing, a man standing over her with a bloody knife. The struggle which follows changes Abigail's life forever. When the local police make a misjudgement which not only threatens the investigation but places a young girl's life in danger, the case is handed over to Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Apprehension Team –- teamed with detective Faith Mitchell, a woman who resents him from their first meeting. But in the relentless heat of a Georgia"
"glimpses through a peephole many teens may be peering through for the first time, unaware that others are seeing virtually the same new, scary, unfamiliar things."" The novel appears on the ALA’s list of most frequently challenged books in 2004, 2005, and 2011. What My Mother Doesn't Know What My Mother Doesn't Know (2001) is a novel in verse by Sonya Sones. The free verse novel follows ninth-grader Sophie Stein as she struggles through the daily grind of being a freshman in high school, her romantic crushes and family life. It has been translated into French, German, Indonesian and Swedish,"
"the most delicate member of society: a child; the most vulnerable member: a female."" Described as a ""psychological murder"" by Morrison, the novel follows Pecola's unraveling as she continues to aspire toward a white standard of beauty that she would never be able to attain; in combination with the rape she experienced by her father, Pecola's ultimate fate is one that demonstrates the difficult and tragic life of a child who could not overcome the many life obstacles she was faced with for simply being Black and female. According to the African American Intellectual History Society, “Women were presented as"
"Suze researches Jesse's past, and, with Doc's help, she discovers that Jesse died 150 years ago under mysterious circumstances on his way to marry his cousin Maria. Suze later talks to Jesse, and while they set out some ground rules regarding his presence, she remains confused about her feelings towards him. Shadowland (Cabot novel) Shadowland is a young adult novel written by author Meg Cabot and published by Avon Books in 2000. It is the first part of ""The Mediator"" series. Its alternative title is Love You To Death. Sixteen-year-old Susannah 'Suze' Simon is a mediator, which means she can"
"always dreamed of but originally involving her mother. In the Ceiling the Stars Are Shining In the Ceiling the Stars Are Shining (orig. Swedish ""I taket lyser stjärnorna"", literal translation) is a Swedish novel by Johanna Thydell, published in 2003. The book is about thirteen-year-old Jenna Wilson, who is unpopular at school and whose mother is dying of breast cancer. The book won the prestigious August Prize as the best Swedish children's and youth's book of 2003. A film adaptation, ""Glowing Stars"", was released in 2009. The film starts off with a girl, Jenna, who is seen doing household activities"
"Elsewhere (Zevin novel) Elsewhere is a 2005 young adult, speculative novel by Gabrielle Zevin. Fifteen-year-old Liz is hit and killed by a taxi. When she wakes up, she finds herself in the cabin of a ship named the SS Nile. She meets her idol, who turns out to be dead, like her. The ship arrives to an island called 'Elsewhere'. In Elsewhere, everyone ages backwards until they reach 7 days old and then are sent back to Earth as a baby to be reborn. Liz meets her grandmother, who is very young by now, and takes care of Liz. Liz"
"""A"" is revealed to be CeCe Drake and Aria leaves Rosewood to go to school in Savannah. Five years later, Aria has ended her relationship with Ezra and is dating a co-worker, Liam, whom she works with at a publishing house. When Charlotte is killed, Aria is forced to return to Rosewood and face her demons: Ezra has become sullen and depressed, drowning himself in alcohol and seclusion since the disappearance of his girlfriend, Nicole, and is having a hard time writing a sequel for his former best-seller; Alison believes that Aria has something to do with Charlotte's murder and"
"as a woman with a son and daughter who recently suffered the death of her husband and moved away, but needed a place to stay while job hunting. As various other events mark Hattie's ""uneventful"" summer, she comes to better understand Adam. But when he tragically commits suicide, it leads to everyone—including herself—realizing that none of them had understood Adam as much as he needed them to. A Corner of the Universe A Corner of the Universe is a young adult's novel by Ann M. Martin, published in 2002. It won a Newbery Honor Award in 2003. A few major"
"when a child dies.""—Kirkus Reviews This novel is about a young girl who is in denial about the fact that her father has died in World War II, until she is given her father’s watch. Molly risks it all to find out the truth she is trying to avoid. Zoe’s family is thrown into troubled times, with her father losing his job and their rental house suddenly being sold. They are forced to move to find work and meanwhile live in the family van. To escape the sad reality, Zoe creates a ""double life"". It is a story of courage"