Falling into Place
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Authors: Zhang,Amy
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Chapter Two: How to Save a Corpse
Chapter Five: Five Months Before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Six: If She's Determined
Chapter Ten: Popularity: An Analysis
Chapter Eleven: The Junior Class
Chapter Twelve: Three Weeks Before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Fourteen: Fifty-Eight Minutes Before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Fifteen: One Day After Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Eighteen: Ziplock Bags
Chapter Nineteen: The Brown Couch, New Year's Day
Chapter Twenty: Fifty-Five Minutes Before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Twenty-One: Fifty Minutes Before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Twenty-Two: Nevers and Forevers
Chapter Twenty-Three: Plans, New Years' Day
Chapter Twenty-Four: Seven Days Before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Twenty-Five: Driving Habits
Chapter Twenty-Six: Forty-Nine Minutes Before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Twenty-Three Missed Calls Later
Chapter Twenty-Eight: The On-Again Off Again
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Scavenger
Chapter Thirty: After the Surgery
Chapter Thirty-One: The Art of Being Alive
Chapter Thirty-Two: Six Days Before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Thirty-Three: Worlds Fall Apart
Chapter Thirty-Four: Forty-Four Minutes before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Thirty-Five: Five Days Before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Thirty-Six: “Meridian Teen Injured in Car Crash”
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Four Days Before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Thirty-Eight: Forty-One Minutes Before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Thirty-Nine: Thoughts on the Road
Chapter Forty: This is What Liz Emerson's Car Did
Chapter Forty-Two: Thirty-Eight Minutes Before Liz Emerson Crashe d her Car
Chapter Forty-Four: Thirty-Five Minutes Before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Forty-Six: The Ruining of Liam Oliver
Chapter Forty-Seven: The Effects
Chapter Forty-Eight: Thirty-Three Minutes Before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Forty-Nine: Twenty-Nine Minutes Before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Fifty: What Liz Didn't Know
Chapter Fifty-One: Three Days Before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Fifty-Two: Hopes and Fears
Chapter Fifty-Three: Tact, Or Lack Thereof
Chapter Fifty-Four: Twenty-Four Minutes Before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Fifty-Five: What Liz Also Didn't Know
Chapter Fifty-Six: The First Visitor
Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Last Day of Liz Emerson's Childhood
Chapter Fifty-Eight: Hickeys and Black Eyes
Chapter Fifty-Nine: The Second Visitor
Chapter Sixty: Two Days Before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Sixty-One: World of Idiots
Chapter Sixty-Two: The Third Visitor
Chapter Sixty-Three: The Maternity Ward
Chapter Sixty-Four: Fourteen Minutes Before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Sixty-Five: All These Impossible Things
Chapter Sixty-Six: Thirteen Minutes Before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Sixty-Seven: The Abortion Clinic
Chapter Sixty-Eight: One Day Before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Sixty-Nine: The Fourth Visitor
Chapter Seventy: One Step Forward
Chapter Seventy-One: The Night Before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Seventy-Two: The Day Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Seventy-Three: Seven Minutes Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Seventy-Four: The Fifth Visitor
Chapter Seventy-Five: The Worst Part
Chapter Seventy-Six: And Then Things Fall Apart
Chapter Seventy-Seven: Two Minutes Before Liz Emerson Crashed Her Car
Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Crash
Chapter Eighty-One: Before Everything Fades
Chapter Eighty-Two: The Waiting Room Again
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February 2014
Dear Readers,
I read Amy Zhang's novel
Falling Into Place
in one sitting, and I haven't stopped thinking about it since. This is an extraordinary novel. The writing is literary and gorgeous and powerful; the voice surprising and original.
Liz Emerson has given up. She no longer thinks she belongs in the worldâshe's convinced herself that she just isn't good enough. And the evidence is compellingâLiz is sarcastic and mean and vengeful. She's a bully. But she wasn't always like that. She used to be the girl who reached for the sky. She used to be the girl everyone wanted to be friends with. She used to be full of promise and light.
Falling Into Place
is a suspenseful, edge-of-your-seat read. It's also a book to return to again and again, and to think about and talk about with friends and parents and teachers and librarians and co-workers. Certainly, we've been talking about it a lot here. What happened to Liz Emerson? Why did it happen? How could any of us have stopped it from happening? Is life more than cause and effect?
Debut author Amy Zhang is a high school student in Wisconsin. She writes about high school and being a teen with clear eyes and a full heart. But I think she's also a very old soul with something to say to every one of us.
I hope you will fall in love with this book and share it with another reader in your life.
Best,
Susan Katz
President and Publisher
HarperCollins
Children's Books
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First Law
A body at rest will remain at rest, and a body in motion will remain in motion with a constant velocity, unless acted upon by a force.
Second Law
Force is equal to the change in momentum (mV) per change in time. for a constant mass, force equals mass times acceleration (F = ma)
Third Law
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
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Laws of Motion
O
n the day Liz Emerson tries to die, they had reviewed Newton's Laws of Motion in physics class. Then, after school, she put them into practice by running her Mercedes off the road.
As she lies on the grass with the shattered window tangled in her hair, her blood all around her, she looks up and sees the sky again. She begins to cry, because it's so blue, the sky. So, so blue. It fills her with an odd sadness, because she had forgotten. She had forgotten how very blue it was, and now it is too late.
Inhaling is becoming an exceedingly difficult task. The rush of cars grows farther and farther away, the world blurs at the edges, and Liz is gripped by an inexplicable urge to get to her feet and chase the cars, redefine the world. In this moment, she realizes what death really means. It means that she will never catch them.
Wait
, she thinks.
Not yet
.
She still doesn't understand them, Newton's Three Laws of Motion. Inertia and force and mass and gravity and equal and opposite reactions still do not quite fit together in her head, but she is ready to let go. She is ready for it all to end.