The Afterlife by Gary Soto, 158 pp.
This book begins when Chuy, a teen-age boy, is knifed in a senseless incident at a dance. He rises from his body and spends the rest of the story as a ghost, floating around town, watching his mourning relatives, meeting and befriending another dead teen-ager, and hindering the acts of local criminals. This is one of three books I will be discussing with students at the Lieberman Learning Center as part of the Great Stories grant. It's a quick but thought provoking read.
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