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Remember Me is a book series written by Christopher Pike. Who is one of the best-selling author's of young adult novels. The series is all about a girl who died, Shari Cooper, and how she moves on.

Remember Me (1989)
Shari Cooper wakes up dead. The only thing she can remember is falling off her friend's balcony during the party. Shari Cooper's death is seen as a suicide, but she knows that she was murdered, she can feel it. Now everyone is a suspect, all of her friends, and she is the only one who can truly figure everything out. Before the death of Shari Cooper, she was a beautiful blonde, she had just graduated from Hazzard High, and she had it all. She comes from a wealthy family and her brother, Jim, has diabetes, and he sleepwalks. He has a girlfriend who is the daughter of their maid, Amanda. Shari finds Amanda with one of Jim’s insulin needles and then Jim tells Shari that he just had a dream about her that involved a balloon and when the balloon flew away in the wind, she cried.

Amanda is colorblind. Jo, Shari's best friend, is into the paranormal. When Shari goes to Jo’s house to pick her up for the big party, Shari ends up finding pieces of paper that were a short story written by Peter Nichols, Shari's friend who had died. The story Peter had written is about a girl with a VCR that can tape tomorrow’s news. Coincidentally the girl's name in Peter's story was Ann, which Shari thinks that this has something to do with her, because that is her middle name.

During Big Beth's party they play with the ouija board and they are convinced Peter is talking to them. Shari finds out that her boyfriend cheated on her, and goes out onto the balcony to get some fresh air, and the next thing she know's she is waking up in her own bed. She goes downstairs to have breakfast with her family, but she can't pull the chair out and her parents are ignoring her.

She is in denial of her death. At her funeral, barely anyone attends because they think she committed suicide. But there is a boy there her age in baggy white shorts, Peter Nichols. Finally reunited, they comfort one another. They go and try to figure out who murdered Shari. They start to follow all of the people at the party around. Jo brings out the ouija board to contact Shari, but another force takes charge of it and tells them that Peter and Shari are burning in hell. A shadow chases Shari into the cemetery and when she runs into Peter, it disappears.

Shari gets into everyone's dreams, and Jo feels that Shari blames her for her death. Peter calls Shari for help because the Shadow is chasing after him, but because every ghost has its own shadow, she cannot see his. The shadow is thereselves. Shari climbs up to the balcony, and the shadow beckons her to fall, so she does.

Shari has a dream that tells everything she needed to know. Her dream was about her being switched at birth and that Jo and Shari are actually half sisters and also cousins because Jo's father had an affair with Mrs. Parish. Amanda was born the day before Shari, and this make's Amanda, Jim's sister. Jo's mother is a nurse, and she switched the babies. Amanda knows about the switch and even though she knew, she was still in love with Jim. She attacks Jim because no one else can have him, but when Peter intervenes his shadow attacks him and he falls to the floor. Amanda confesses to murdering Shari.

Remember Me 2: The Return (1994)
Jean Rodrigues is eighteen and two weeks away from graduating from her high school. Jean Rodrigues is half Mexican. Her dark, long hair is her glory. The one thing she doesn't want to do is end up like her mother, a single mom who works way too much. Jean's father died when she was a child. She thinks that her fate is exactly how her mother ended up. They live in a bad neighborhood, which to her, this is the worst.

Jean's best friend Carol, who is a lesbian, picks her up to go to a party. But Jean has news for her boyfriend, Lenny, that she plans on telling him when she gets there. She is six weeks pregnant. Carol is in love with Darlene, whose boyfriend, Sporty, recently died by being shot. He died in Lenny's arms, and after the party they have a meeting about Sporty. Lenny is not completely mortified by Jean being pregnant, but they decide to talk about it later. The meeting is about planning revenge against Sporty's murderer, Juan.

Lenny and Jean argue about the planning of Juan's death, and goes out onto the balcony, and falls.

Shari Cooper then comes to her rescue. She was told by Rishi that she could go back to Earth as a wanderer. Turns out a ton of famous people were also wanderers as well, Malcolm X as an example. So when Jean falls to her death, Shari Cooper takes over her body.

Jean wakes up in the hospital, after being in a coma for a few days and she asks about Lenny. Carol tells her that Lenny was also on the balcony, and he also fell and is in the hospital too. He is paralyzed from the waist down, and Jean also lost her baby.

Because wanderers do not know they are wanderers, Shari now thinks that she is Jean. Rishi had told Shari that wanderers have a mission and that is to find love, and help others find it as well.

Out of no where though, Jean is now volunteering at the hospital, and her mother wants to know if she had her personality swapped. Jean also decided to stop doing drugs, to make for a better life and a way to get out of her neighborhood.

While Jean volunteers at the hospital she becomes friends with Debra, who is a cancer patient. Debra wishes that she could rent The Lord of The Rings, as she has only read the books.

After Jean is done at the hospital she goes to visit Lenny. Who is highly depressed, and he tries to convince Jean to kill him. After Jean leaves she has an odd feeling, and decides to go swimming, but she swims too far and has to get rescued by a lifeguard. She then gets a feeling to go visit someone on the other side of town, Shari Cooper's brother, Jim. Which she calls him Jimmy and offers to help him move out of his parents house as long as he would give her a ride back home.

When Debra dies Jean goes to visit her grave. While she is at the cemetery she finds Shari Cooper's grave as well, with a picture on it. Jean knows the girl in the picture as well as her own reflection.

Jean gets a phone call from Carol that Darlene and Lenny are staging their revenge, and they have a gun. Jean goes over and Lenny and her fight, so they go and visit Jim. Then the whole plot changes. Turns out, Lenny killed Sporty and is trying to murder Jean. When Jean yells out that she is Shari, Lenny moves to the balcony and they both fall again.

The Rishi then gives Peter and Shari another shot at life. Peter comes back as Lenny, and Shari survives in Jeans body.

Remember Me 3: The Last Story (1995)
Shari Cooper had already died once, and came back as a wanderer which is a soul who had been given permission to take the place of another soul in another body. Shari, who took the body of Jean Rodgrigues, now remembers who she used to be. She has also figures out her soul purpose to her new life, and why she had to come back. Shari starts to write her own stories, and they're known across the whole world. One of which is actually being made into a movie.

Then one night a story comes to her out of the blue, about love and magic. The story is ancient and it explains the purpose of humans, and why they walk the Earth.

She begins to write her story down, almost positive that it's just her writers block becoming unstuck. Shari doesn't realize the danger she just started, her story is true. It is the warning of danger to everyone in the whole world. From creatures who do not like humans, but they also have it out for Wanderers as well. They are monsters that will do anything to stop Shari from publishing the truth. Even if that means making her fall for one of them, Roger, as a trap. Roger turns out to be a black wanderer, and he has to destroy Shari because of the story she is writing.

They're hidden, but they're watching around every corner, she risks it all, and this means Peter will lose his love of three years, and Shari may ruin everything and anything for this monster.

Peter finally starts to walk, and Shari goes to visit her actual mother, and when she gets tucked in, she closes her eyes... Forever.

Remember Me Omnibus
The Omnibus is the collection of all three books apart of the Remember Me series which came out in 2010.

About The Author
Christopher Pike is Kevin McFadden's penn name, he was born in New York in November, 1954. Although he grew up in California, where he still resides today. He dropped out of college, and had smaller jobs on the side before he became a well-known author. He likes his privacy, so there isn't much to be known about him. He wanted to write science fiction and adult mystery books but was highly unsuccessful. The first book he ever wrote in the thriller genre was Slumber Party in 1985. He has almost a hundred teen thriller books.