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= //Everwild// by Neal Shusterman  = 

Plot Summary:
//Everwild// is a young adult realistic ficton sequel to //Everlost.// This book is about two semi-dead teens searching for answers in a wild frontier known to all undeads as dangerous and spooky. Even though the undead teens can see the everyday things going on, the people who are alive can't see them. When Nick and Allie go to visit their living parents they only find that they can't be heard by their parents, and it breaks the kids' hearts. In addition, Allie discovers she possesses a rare ability. She can, in simpler terms, jump inside a living person and control them. (similar to in modern day as a person described as being demonically possessed.) Nick and Allie learn that if they want to stay alive they must not trust anyone to survive the cruel and unforgiving world of the "Afterlights". ( The "Afterlights" are what the undead teens call themselves in the limbo of life in which they are trapped.)

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Neal Shusterman grew up in Brooklyn, New York. As a young child he always knew he wanted to one day become an author. Shusterman has written over 30 novels for teens, and the count is still rising. At the moment, Shusterman is working on the third book in the //Skinjacker// trilogy. (//Everlost// being the first, and //Everwild// being the second in the series.) At the age of 16 Neal's family moved down to Mexico City where even though homesick, still perservered to become one of the most well known teenage book authors of today. Neal Shusterman is 48 years old and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and 4 children.

=﻿Other books by Neal Shusterman:=
 * // ﻿ ﻿ Unwind//, //Full Tilt//, and //Everlost//**

=﻿**Social Issue Relevance: Estranged Parents**=
 * **In today's society when some parents give up unwanted kids, they move on like it never happened.**
 * **Kids want to find them but it proves a difficult task.**
 * **Kids sometimes feel bad on the inside because they may feel unwanted by their parents who have given them up.**
 * **I believe that Shusterman put in the book how Allie wants to (and can) possess the living because it shows how passionate abandoned kids are about re-connecting with parents.**

=**Dramization of //Everlost//**=
 * Rupert Grint as Nick**


 * I chose Rupert as Nick because they are both laid** **back**
 * and they both want to stick out in a crowd.**


 * Dakota Fanning as Allie**
 * I chose Dakota to be Allie because she seems like the**
 * type of person that would want nothing to stand in her**
 * way of acheiving a goal.**