HEAVEN LOOKS A LOT LIKE THE MALL

Genre: Fiction

Setting: Mall

# of pages: 251

Paige Krentz

Wendy Mass

Age:46 She lives in New

Jersey She has a husband,

twin daughter and son, and a cat

Other books she wrote: A Mango shaped space, Jeremy fink and the Meaning of Life, The Candymakers

Tessa Reynolds

Age: 16 Female Hair: brown High school student Doesn’t have much control over her

appearance She doesn’t have many friends Not very popular

Summary Page

Tessa gets hit in the face with a dodge ball

Finds herself in what she thinks is heaven

She relives her life She tries to figure out the answer to

one burning question if only she knew what it was

Likes and dislikes

Likes: I liked that the book was written like one big poem. I also liked the storyline it was interesting.

Dislikes: The end of the book because you go through her whole life to find that at the end she decides to be nice to people. It’s a very disappointing ending.

Vocabulary page

Swoon-Faint, she almost swooned from fright

Notoriety-the quality or state of being notorious, His comment about the President has given him a notoriety that he enjoys very much.

Commodity-an economic good, agricultural commodities like grain and corn

Saline-containing or resembling common table salt; salty or salt like, she rinsed her mouth with a saline solution

Unbidden-not bidden, unasked, uninvited, thoughts that come to the mind unbidden

Adage-a saying often in metaphorical form that embodies a common observation, that old adage, “the early bird gets the worm”

You should read this book because…

You could relate to the main character

It has a good storyline You can’t put the book down

Lesson learned/theme

The lesson learned/theme of this book is:

You only have one life don’t take if for granted.

Back review page

The storyline of the book was awesome and I really liked the way that Wendy Mass wrote the book in poetic form. I thought it was creative the way the book went from reliving Tessa’s life in a dream back to real life.

I would rate this book 3 out of 5 whales

If you could change the end of the story If I could change the ending of this story

I would: Continue the story a bit more to explain

how her life goes after the accident Have her realize something different

about her life

What character can you relate to

I can relate to the main character Tessa because:

She is in high school She is a teenager She loves to shop