Remembering Raquel By: Vivian Vande Velde

Cool name for an author huh? Great alliteration. This is in response to a request from a friend to reveiw a sad book. So here ya go! Remembering Raquel is a story about a girl named Raquel who was killed when she stepped (or fell) off a street corner, and was hit by a car. It is told from the perspective of kids at her school and the witnesses to the accident. It is sad, certainly, but it also raises the question: how would you like to be remembered when you die? It is a very sweet book, and some of the insights from the girls at her school are very true in real life. I am definatly going to suck it up and buy this one!