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The Christopher Pike juvenile fiction trilogy, Remember Me traces the development of main character Shari Cooper from a naive teenager in book 1 to a mature yet materialistic 21 year old who forgets her purpose on earth. The Remember Me trilogy begins with the de ....

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.... her death and afterlife experience. In book 1, Remember Me, Shari Cooper is an 18-year-old teenager on the verge of high school graduation. The reader meets a carefree girl who lives for the moment. She has the ideal life of sex, parties, friends, and a handsome boyfriend. Her parents are rich and did not hesitate to buy her an expensive, red sports car. She can't imagine her life getting any better. She has the immortal feeling of most teenagers until she is pushed from a balcony at a party and killed. Her soul does not leave this earth in the first book. She stays on earth and helps to solve her murder. Early after her death she is bitter ....