Dead Girl In Love

This Temp-Lifer assignment will be easy. See, my dead grandmother keeps finding people who need help and then I step into their life—and their body—to help them solve their problems. This time, I’m in the body of my BFF, Alyce, so I won’t have to do a lot of detective work. But, as Alyce, I have one big question: What am I doing in this coffin?

High-school senior Amber Borden wants to make a name for herself as the talent agent for the adolescent A-list. But after a near-death experience, there’s a cosmic accident and Amber returns to someone else’s body—the most popular girl in school who just tried to commit suicide. Hmm, maybe being queen bee isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Apparently, this freaky phenomenon of stepping into someone else’s life—and their body!—has a name: Temp Lifer. Thanks to my dead grandmother, it’s happened again. So now I’m hungover and gazing in the mirror at ... my boyfriend’s sister. Grammy, help!

Now in the eighth grade, best friends Mikey and Margalo try to figure out boys, crushes, and falling in love.

"No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say." Washington Post

Sophie, the classroom nerd has a crush on Kyle, the infamous bad boy at school. Between her dreams of reaching new heights, balancing her abusive father and sister’s relationship while simultaneously growing up, she allows herself to have a possible love relationship. Kyle’s ex-girlfriend does however not like this idea. Overruling her domestic obstacles she follows her heart and go away with Kyle. Does she make it back alive with Mellissa in the picture? Stick around and find out.

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

An average girl living in the city is murdered. Nothing new, right? It happens every day. Just another statistic. That is...until she woke up dead. Trapped within her own decaying shell, the dead girl struggles to piece together the awful events of her untimely death and hunt down the man responsible. Armed only with a kiss from an ancient Egyptian God, a pockmarked memory, her ex-boyfriend, and a murder of crows Jamie Lund comes face to face with something more terrifying and real than mere death...she suffers the agony of being undead! With illustrations from Aaron Alfeche, this sardonic tale comes to life like no other zombie story, popping from the page with stunning, unnatural brilliance.