Where I Want to Be by Adele Griffin ***

Where I Want to Be by Adele Griffin is the story of two sisters named Jane and Lilly. Jane was killed by an ongoing car as she was walking across the street. Where I Want to Be explores both girls' perspectives on what really happened to provoke the accident and on the day of the accident. Lilly is seventeen. She is the younger sister, has always been really popular and has a lot of friends. She has always fit in well and she has a very loving boyfriend named Caleb. When she first started dating him, Jane was very excited when he came over to their house. Caleb had been almost killed by a dog when he was in middle school and Jane had tons of questions for him. Jane is the older sister and is eighteen when she dies. Jane had a mental disability. Once Lilly outgrew the age when she enjoyed make-believe, Jane had always felt left out of her younger sister's life. After Caleb had been coming over to their house for a while, Jane got sick of him being there all of the time because, after all, it wasn't his house! Jane starts to become disappointed with her life when she compares it to her sister's. Her grandparents, who she was extremely close too, died, and that pushed her completely off of the edge. Find out the final reasons leading up to Jane's actions by reading Where I Want to Be.

Caroline W

150 pages
Period: 8