PUTTING MAKE-UP ON DEAD PEOPLE By: Jennifer Violi

After her father's death, Donna hasn't really been present in life. She's let her friends push her around and she's let her mother choose her college and her major. Basically Donna has just lost touch with the living. But then, one day, Donna has an epiphany: she wants to be a mortician. Who cares if her mother and the rest of the planet things she's gone insane. Donna finally knows what she wants and maybe, just maybe she can regain her life among the living by helping the dead. Ages 14 and up. Hyperion $16.99 Reviewed by Maggie age 16