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Beyond
A Ghost Story
By McNamee, Graham
- ISBN
- 978-0-38573-775-3 978-0-38590-687-6 978-0-37589-759-7
- Publisher
- Random/Wendy Lamb
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2012 | Fiction
Gr 7 Up–Jane has a lot of experience with death. She was born dead, heart not beating when she entered the world. Doctors saved her but she has had several other close calls. Is she accident prone, suicidal, or just plain crazy? Her brushes with death have been explained away as “accidents.” But no one really believes that...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2012
“Why did I do it? Who knows?” wonders seventeen-year-old Jane, who has survived poisoning, electrocution, almost being run down by a train, and now a nail in her brain. Everyone thinks she has a death wish, but that isn’t it: she has always sensed a ghostly part of herself, a shadow that turns on her, making her do bad things to herself. More than once she has “danced with death, wrestled with the Reaper. And won.” Sin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
Seventeen-year-old Jane has always sensed her ghostly part, a shadow making her do bad things to herself; more than once she'...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on November 1, 2012
A deft fusion of ghost story and murder mystery, Beyond is an immersive, eerie tale. Having escaped death several times throughout her life, Jane has a charmingly wry attitude regarding her most recent near-death experience. But her fear of the vindictive spirit from “Beyond”—and of the possibility that it isn’t real and she’s losing her mind—is palpable. As she investigates potential reasons for th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
