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courtneyyablon
courtneyyablon
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High School - 11th Grade

In The Lovely Bones, does the reader ever find out if the family finds Susie's body?

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Posted by courtneyyablon on Wednesday October 28, 2009 at 6:18 PM and tagged with alice, alice sebold, death, harvey, lovely bones, murder, salmon, sebold, susie.

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  1. lynn30k Teacher
    High School - 10th Grade

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    No. Towards the end of the book, the reader is led to believe her body is about to be discovered when Ruth and Ray are near the landfill where Susie's body was dumped. But the bones never are found (except the elbow bone, which is found soon after her death).

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    Posted by lynn30k on Friday October 30, 2009 at 8:11 PM