The Lovely Bones Lesson Plan

The Lovely Bones, published in 2002, is Alice Sebold’s second published book and her first published novel. The book sold almost three million copies and was on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year. It has been translated into over forty languages. Before it was published, an excerpt of the book was run in Seventeen magazine. Good Morning America featured the novel in their book club shortly after it was published. The Lovely Bones won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel in 2002 and was nominated for Best Novel by the Horror Writers Association. The Lovely Bones received rave reviews from American critics, including the New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani, who...