By: C. Rains
Class: 3rd per. Smith
Book: the five people you meet in heaven

Albom, Mitch. the five people you meet in heaven.
USA: Hyperion, 2003.
Aurora Public Library
Cost: $19.95

Eddie's Heavenly Adventure

Eddie has been the maintenance manager at Ruby Pier his entire life. He is alone in life, his wife died several years ago and the two of them were never able to bear a child. His parents died many years ago and his only sibling, Joe died about two years ago. The only people that he interacts with are the children that come up to him and ask him to make them a balloon animal, and every time he makes a balloon dog with a smile.

One day, Eddie was walking down the Pier and looking for any problems with the coasters. As soon as he sat down, a little girl, that Eddie always sees at the Pier, comes up to him asking him to make her an animal balloon. He does so, and when he looks up he sees that a cart on Freddy’s Free Fall is hanging, off the track. He radios to the rest of his team to go up and try and fix the cart, because he couldn’t due to his injured knee. The others go up and remove the three people that were stuck in the cart, and on of the team members pulled the brake, which sends the cart into a free fall. Eddie looks down and he sees the girl right under the path of the falling cart. Eddie rushes over as quick as he could, and dives trying to save the girl. He feels a hand and then…silence.

Eddie is in heaven; that is he is in the heaven of the five people that he meets. In each of these heavens, he finds out why it is he was on earth and how these five people affected his life. But, he asks one question to each of his “people”, “Did I save that girl?”

I rate this book as a heart. The five people you meet in heaven is a normal sized book, at 196 pages, that is a quick read. Albom introduces a new idea behind what heaven is and who is there. Each new person that Eddie meet’s is someone that you would have never expected. At the end of the book, you wonder who it is you would meet in heaven, how you affected others, and finally what your heaven would be.