The Lovely Bones Movie Vs Book

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The Lovely Bones is a story about Susie and how she passed away. She has a brother and sister name Buckley and Lindsey. Susie is 14 and she lives in Pennsylvania she lived by an old man that seem friendly but wasn't so friendly. His name was Mr. Harvey he was the killer of Susie Salmon. The movie was way more different than the book. More event happened in the book than in the movie. In the book Susie get caught up at school and is late for dinner. In the book Abigail Susie’s mom had an affair with one of the detectives. The book also said there was a fair and in the movie there was nothing about a fair. The book didn’t say anything about Lindsey falling and struggling to get up. Also the book didn’t say anything about Lindsey grabbing the

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