Books About Death and Afterlife

1. Blind Faith, by Ellen Wittlinger



After Liz’s grandmother dies, her mother becomes deeply depressed and finds solace only at her spiritualist church, whose members claim to communicate with the dead.
Liz’s atheist father disapproves, and Liz is caught in the middle. When Liz meets Nathan, she begins to deal with her complicated feelings about loss, love and faith.


2. Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin


Liz is only fifteen when she gets hit and killed by a car. She ends up in Elsewhere, a land where the deceased age backwards until they are born. Initially furious, Liz soon begins to accept her afterlife and even finds joy.




3. Restless, Richard Wallace


Seventeen-year-old Herbie is a great athlete and is getting geared-up to do both football and cross-country in the fall. But while out running one night, Herbie begins to sense that he is not alone. Eventually, Herbie meets and communicates with spirits who are between worlds and who are searching for answers about life, death, and how to move on.


4. Bone Dance, by Martha Brooks

When Alexandra inherits land from the father she has never met, she is surprised and even resentful. When she goes to Medicine Bluff, she meets Lonny,
the stepson of the man who sold the land to her father. Lonny wants to hate Alexandran, the “city girl”, but finds himself drawn to her in this story of love, loss, redemption, and deep spiritual connections with the Earth.