The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Susie Salmon was an average teenager girl in the 1970's, until she is murdered by her neighbor. She is now learning about her heaven and she is trying to find a way to expose her killer. At first she is regretful and angry that she was killed. But throughout the first couple chapters she becomes very accepting of the fact that she is dead. At the beginning she also wishes that her killer would be dead instead of her. Now she is more focused on exposing him and get closure for her parents and sister. This shows characterization because she changes her attitude throughout the story.