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The book I chose to read for my second book report was The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. There are 328 pages in this book, and besides the picture of Suzie's charm bracelet on the front cover, there are no illustrations in the book. My older sister read this book a while ago and recommended it to me.
The setting of the story takes place in Norristown, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, in 1973-1981, "before kids of all races and genders started appearing on milk cartons and in the daily mail ... when people believed things like that [Suzie's murder] didn't happen" (5). Her murder takes place in an underground den in the middle of a cornfield during a wintry night, which can have a gloomy affect on people.
Suzie Salmon was 14 years old when she died. She was a white girl with mousy brown hair. She was not a very physically strong girl, but she was very intelligent: a member of the Chess Club, Chem Club, and got good grades in school. According to her father, Jack,......

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