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Graveyard Girl

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I don't recall ever hearing about yellow fever before I read this book. I found this to be a gripping story of a young boy who is forced by the death around him to make some very adult decisions. I found myself compelled to read it in one sitting. This is an excellent story for those who like historical fiction or sad stories. It has a great message also.

...There is a plaque going though the town that Eli, Addie, and the graveyard girl live in. They all lost their families to it so they live together. Eli and the graveyard girl teach Addie a lot. Then the graveyard girl dies and Eli tries to bring Addie to an asylum and she runs off. In the end Addie saves Eli's life and they live happily ever after.

I didn't like the characters in the story because they seemed fake. They are left behind by their parents and they just turn from children to adults. Before they had no idea how to cook but as soon as they are on their own they know how to cook like master chefs. Eli was stupid because he wouldn't know one thing but the next moment he would know it. All the other characters were pretty believable. The length was perfect and it was gust enough pages. Even with so little pages it seemed to drag on, if it was about twenty pages shorter it would have been better. I was relieved when it was over because it dragged on.

I wouldn't recommend this book unless you like reading old stories about the beginning of the United States and its history. If you don't like reading these kinds of stories then don't read this book!

This story is about a boy named Eli who lives in Memphis, Tenneessee. He has lost his family to a disease called Yellow Jack. ELi goes too Elmwood cemetary in hopes of some help, yet he finds Grace, the Graveyard Girl, and Addie Carlile, who lost all her family too and is waiting for her Aunt to come get her. He indends on runnning away to the west to California. When Grace getse sick with the disease he feels obligated to stay and watch after the little girl, yet when he tries to put her in the orphan asylum she runs away. In the end she saves his life and the two of them live happily ever after when Addie's aunt gets to Memphis

"Graveyard Girl" interested me because of the yellow fever plot, and while this book used that as its base, it didn't really get into the history of it. I found the writing to be too choppy and not descriptive enough; I had a very hard time imaging the places. The characters' transition and maturity wasn't realistic, but that could be because we didn't see what they were like before the epidemic. Overall, I found this book to be uncreative. I do not recommend.

This book I think everyone should read! It is very good at detailing and I'm almost done reading it. I'm only eleven and I haven't read a whole lot of books and I just think this book is wounderful!!!