Elsewhere
- 288
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Elsewhere” treats death and loss gently, inventively and with a hopeful touch. Its afterlife is no heaven or hell but a place much like Earth where the dead grow younger, an idea readers repeatedly call original. Some are uneasy about a romance between the teenage heroine and a much older man, which they feel the novel never examines. A consoling book about grief, written for teenagers.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
Elsewhere is a 2005 young adult, speculative novel by Gabrielle Zevin.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.8 across 117 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 44% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Young adult average of 7.8. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Books | 9.0 | 22 | 19% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 95 | 81% |
Frequently asked
What age is Elsewhere for?
Elsewhere sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 288 pages — shorter than 89% of the ranked books in Young adult.
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If you liked this
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