![]() Lizzie feels overwhelmed with the need to get the sweater to her dad. The next day, Lizzie accepts the job with the Division of Domestic Animals.Īs time passes and it comes close to Lizzie's dad's birthday, Lizzie recalls a sweater she bought for her father that is hidden in her closet. However, Lizzie is caught by Betty and realizes that her attempts to return to earth are futile. Then Lizzie decides she must communicate with her family, so she decides to visit a forbidden place in the ocean where it is said she can communicate with her family and friends. Lizzie desperately misses her life on earth and refuses all of Betty's attempts to pull her out of her depression and away from the observation deck. Lizzie becomes obsessed with watching over the next few weeks. From the telescopes on the observation deck, Lizzie can watch her family and friends back on earth. Lizzie begins spending all her time at an observation deck on a lighthouse near her grandmother's house. Lizzie's counselor, Aldous, suggests that Lizzie work as a counselor with newly arrived animals, but Lizzie hesitates at the offer. On her first full day on Elsewhere, Lizzie attends her acclimation meeting, a meeting with a counselor in which Lizzie learns about Elsewhere and is assigned an avocation. Lizzie becomes angry at this thought because she had so looked forward to turning sixteen, but now she never will. Betty was in her fifties when she died, but is now in her thirties. Betty explains to Lizzie that on Elsewhere, people age backwards. ![]() On Elsewhere, Lizzie is met by her grandmother, Betty, who died in the months before Lizzie was born. When the boat docks, Lizzie refuses to disembark in hopes that she can return with the boat to her previous life. However, when Lizzie is allowed to watch her own funeral, she is forced to realize the truth. ![]() Only fifteen, Lizzie wakes on a boat and holds on to the idea that she is only dreaming because she cannot imagine dying so young. Lizzie has died in a hit and run accident on her way to the mall. Elsewhere is a fascinating story of what happens to people after death. However, as Lizzie comes to understand the truth, she finds herself fighting reality and breaking the rules to get back to her family. When she wakes on a boat, she thinks that she is dreaming. In this novel, Lizzie has been killed in a hit and run accident.
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