Dead on Town Line

by Leslie Connor
Dead on Town Line
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24 ratings, 3.83 average rating, 3 reviews (more data...)
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published
November 2nd 2006 by Puffin

binding
Paperback, 144 pages

isbn
014240697X   (isbn13: 9780142406977)

description
Of all the revelations her afterlife brings, perhaps the most startling thing Cassie Devlin discovers is that being dead isn't being done. Murdered by...more






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Jennifer Wardrip
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05/04/08

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I had to lower the rating on this book, not because it wasn't a good story (it's a very beautiful, poignant one) or because of the style of the writing (the book is written in free verse). I did it because, after buying a hardcover book, it took me fifteen minutes to read it.

Cassie Devlin lived a pretty good life--a loving mother, friends at school, a wonderful boyfriend named Kyle, outstanding ability to write music and play the piano, and a group of ...more
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Sarah
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06/19/07

bookshelves: yafiction
Read in June, 2007
the woodcuts...at least, i think they're woodcuts...are beautiful. oh, let's just call them illustrations, i guess. the story is sad, but lovely at times. i'm kinda surprised by how much the characters were developed given the length of the book and the format of the book. with poetry you've got to pack a lot more meaning into less space.

this is a book that i picked because i thought the cover was beautiful, so i now have one more data point disproving the maxim...
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Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
10/27/07

bookshelves: read-novels-in-verse, read-ya
Read in July, 2006
I read it because it's a novel in verse. The premise of the story was good, but it either needed to be longer, more fleshed out, or it needed to be done in prose.
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Amy Kathleen
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11/06/08


Hannah
Hannah marked it as to-read
10/20/08

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Emma
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08/26/08


Leah
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07/30/08

bookshelves: young-adult-teen
Read in November, 2006

J-Lynn
J-Lynn marked it as to-read
07/29/08

bookshelves: alternate-format-fiction, to-read, young-adult-and-adolescent-lit

Kristin
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06/10/08

bookshelves: teen
Read in January, 2004

Anne
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05/16/08

bookshelves: teen
Read in January, 2005

Bina
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05/08/08


Jenna
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04/30/08

bookshelves: free-verse, ghosts, sad
Read in February, 2007

Nicole
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04/11/08

Read in August, 2006

Rockwell
Rockwell added it
04/06/08

bookshelves: wish-list

Karen
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04/05/08

bookshelves: crime, death, ghosts, novels-in-verse, young-adult
Read in January, 2005

Kelley
03/28/08

bookshelves: mystery

Calilibrarian
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02/24/08

bookshelves: poetry, ya

Karen
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02/23/08


Kelley
Kelley rated it: 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars
02/21/08



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