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= The book "Lovely Bones" is by Alice Sebold. I enjoyed reading this book because; it interested me in a lot of ways. I could visualize most of this story, and it was very sad. This book is about a thirteen year old girl who is walking home from school. It is getting late and her mom wants her home before dark so she takes a shortcut through the cornfield. There she meets one of her neighbors Mr. Harvey. He tricks her into going underground into a club house that he "made for the kids in town." He then rapes and kills her. For the remaining parts of the story it is Suzie in heaven watching down on her family trying to figure out what happened and why she never came home that night. They found Suzie's elbow in the corn field, but that was the only lead they had. Suzie's sister is the only one that suspected Mr. Harvey. She sneaks into his house and finds evidence that he did something to her sister. While she is snooping around in her neighbor’s things, he comes home. She hears the door slam and her heart dropped. Even though she is trying to be as quite as possible, Mr. Harvey hears the squeaking from the wooden floor boards. He runs upstairs and she jumps out the window and lands onto the roof of the first floor. She then rolls off and runs home. =