Everlost
Readers rate it 4.0 (59 on Hardcover)
330 pages · Released Jun 20, 2008 · Simon and Schuster
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Everlost is a thoughtful middle-grade/YA fantasy that uses the concept of purgatory to explore themes of acceptance, identity, and letting go. The book contains some scary and unsettling imagery (particularly involving the McGill and the threat of sinking into the earth) and deals with death and loss, but violence is not graphic or frequent. The story ultimately rewards empathy and courage, making it suitable for mature readers ages 10 and up who are ready for existential themes.
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From the publisher
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 magica... 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.
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