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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This book was little different for me. I guess from the title I could have expected what the book was going to be about. Chuy gets killed for a comment he made to someone as he is waiting to use the restroom. As he dies, he comes back as a ghost and finds the guyu with the yellow shoes. After finding the guy he follows him home and Chuy disappears.  DBPeeples | Feb 9, 2010 |  This book afterlife is a fiction and its by Gary Soto. This book is about a teen named chuy that he was in a dance club. He needed to go to the bathroom, so he went and he makes a comment to a person that was next to him. The guy that was next to him took the comment wrong. The guy took out a knife and stabs him in the back. When he was dead he was a and spirit he only remembers the yellow shoes that the guy was using that day. He is walking around trying to find the guy he stab him and that toke his life for no reason. One day he does find the guy and fallows him until he gets to his home.Chuy help many poeple while ha was a spirit and he falls in love with a girl named Crystal. And both of them flew off together disappearing. LAGUERA01 | Jan 8, 2010 | Reminded me of The Graveyard Book. Story of the narrator who makes a comment in the bathroom at a dance that he likes the guy's next to him shoes. The boy with the yellow shoes kills him. The book goes through his experience as a newly dead person and how parts of him start to fade when he is really going over to the other side. He meets Crystal, a girl who kills herself in a park even though it seems she has everything anyone could want. dgrandits | Jun 11, 2009 | School Library Journal; Sep2004, Vol. 50 Issue 9, p79-79, 1/5p  kongsmom | Mar 8, 2009 | this book was about a boy who tell that what happen to him at school and with is friend, he lived happy. he hang around with them. he say when your an ordinary boy you need to take shower, smell clean and dress nice. but if you can't do that then you need to suck it up what ever people say. well he was that kind of boy. but he was not that bat he always try to be clean. he was living his normal life at school and at home. he did all those stuff that other people. once he saw a girl he started liking. she was in the school. he try to talk to her but he couldn't. he was to scared. finally he talk to that girl. they both met talk to each other and be came friends. then they be came boy friend and girl friend. until in the book i red that they were dead some body killed that boy ind the end and he was telling the story. (  ) syedbukhari | Nov 18, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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Soon Chuy is floating above his bleeding body, embarking on a journey of personal exploration. As he drifts though his hometown (tightening his stomach muscles so as not to get blown off course) he manages to achieve many of the things he didn’t when he was alive--recognizing how much he is loved by family and friends, saving a life, punishing a thug, and even falling in love (with a ghost-girl who has committed suicide).
Soto has a knack for particularly apt comparisons ("the sun rose pink as a scar," "laundry hung like the faded flags of defeated nations,"), which brings beauty and clarity to this dangerous world of cholos and cabrones (and if you don’t know what those are, there’s a glossary in the back). Aside from a couple plot points left dangling, The Afterlife offers a tangibly detailed portrait of a young life worth living. (Ages 13 and older)--Brangien Davis
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