My Beating Teenage Heart
by C.K. Kelly Martin
I miss the feel of my lungs expanding as they take in oxygen.
I miss hearing someone say my name.
I miss the feel of sunlight, warm on my face.
No one asks if you want to be born, and no one tells you when you die either.
Ashlyn Baptiste is falling. One moment she was nothing and then, suddenly, she's plummeting through a sea of stars. Is she in a coma? She doesn't remember dying, and she has no memories of the life she left behind. All she knows is that she's trapped in a consciousness without a body and she's spending every moment watching a stranger.
Breckon Cody is on the edge. He's being ripped apart by grief so intense it literally hurts to breathe. On the surface, Breckon is trying to hold it together for his family and his girlfriend, but underneath, he's barely hanging on.
Even though she didn't know him in life, Ashlyn sees Breckon's pain, and she's determined to find a way to help him.
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Interested in more "post-death" novels? Check out...
- Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver
- If I Stay, by Gayle Foreman **2012 Abraham Lincoln Book Award Nominee!**
- The Lovely Bones: A Novel, by Alice Sebold
- The Afterlife, by Gary Soto
- A Certain Slant of Light, by Laura Whitcomb
- The Sledding Hill, by Chris Crutcher
- Elsewhere, by Gabrielle Zevin
- I Heart You, You Haunt Me, by Lisa Schroeder
- The Wish List, by Eoin Colfer
- Everlost, by Neal Shusterman